magazine cover

 

This is my first attempt of a magazine front cover.

 

 

I created this front cover through several stages. firstly I chose my main photographs. This didn't matter too much as to who was on it, just as longs as the artist is a well known artist, they must be hip-hop as that's my magazine genre. The photograph I have chose is black and white, so I had to add in a colour to make the cover more appealing and less boring. I have chosen a deep blue for my additional colour as it keeps the mood very chilled and gives a classy feel to it.

 

I was inspired by a few of the magazine covers from 'vibe'. whilst constructing the layout of my own cover I referred to vibe quite often, for example on their front cover it is a recurring theme to have a a catch line above the main title so I interpreted this into my own cover.

 Another feature I was inspired by was the barcode, scan code and date line placement. They are always placed on the left rim at the bottom of the magazine horizontally. This feature particularly stood out to me as it makes the magazine have a very define structure which shows professionalism.