Magazine Research

I researched magazine covers and double page spreads. I did this by using the internet and looking at magazines that I had already purchased. 

Here are some magazines that I own. I looked through these to see if I could find a certain style or design that I liked. I decided that I preferred the 'Elle' style pages because they seem more stylish than pages from magazines like 'Shout'. This is because they have different target audiences and therefore appeal to different people. The magazines like 'Shout' have a childish look and are more busy than stylish magazines that usually include a lot more whitespace. 

On the internet, I used Pintrest to find ideas. Here I searched 'magazine covers' and 'magazine double page spread'. This came up with many examples. I created a board called 'Magazine Design' and I pinned the results that I liked to that board. I ended up with 112 Pins.

I looked through the board and chose two deigns that I thought were appealing and slightly challenging to recreate. This took a lot of thought as there were many different styles and techniques that had been used across all of the different magazine designs.

For my front cover I chose Vogue June 2013. I chose this because I liked the warm image with the dark background, the range of modern fonts and the pink and white colour scheme for the text.

For my double page spread I chose Q's February 2012 Lana Del Rey article. I chose this because I liked the complexity of the image on the left page. It has strong shadows, an out of focus foreground and a coloured spotlight. The page on the right is all text. It has a huge letter 'S' and some of the text is layered. I would also have to find a very close match for the font so that it looks genuine.