2. Vice Magazine
The pages of Vice magazine almost
always feature a large image that will
take up a lot of the page.
It is definitely a very visual magazine
and I really like their style of using large
images to catch the eye of the reader
and back up the articles with photos of
the interesting characters or places the
stories cover.
Although I would regard the magazine as very visual in terms of the large
photographs that feature in the magazine, the text is always just standard black and
white.
They use very plain drop capitals and bold in headings or to differentiate
interviewers questions in interviews but other than this there are no graphical
manipulations of the text.
I do like this technique, as it allows the text to be read without disruption and the
images take control of the aesthetics.
The images and text are almost always
separated with a clear line or border.
Text very rarely overlaps imagery and
there is usually no cut outs or other
such things.
I like the clear separation of imagery
and text that Vice use.
3. Zug Magazine
Zug magazine is very similar to Vice
magazine and text and imagery is almost
always clearly separated. There is often
more colour in Zug however, and some
more text manipulation does occur than
in Vice.
Sometimes a page will not be white with
black text but will be one block of colour
with a different colour of text on top.
This sometimes adds an interesting
quality and as the colour will usually be
complimentary to the colour in the
image, it draws a stronger relationship
between the text and imagery.
This magazine is based in Geneva and so has the
English and French translations of each article on
the page. Although with most publications it
would be unnecessary I think it is cool and adds
a unusual feel to the magazine.
4. Printed Pages Magazine
Printed Pages magazine has more
colour and features different
typography elements that often
incorporating text into the
illustrations or images that come
with the articles.
Another feature that sets Printed
Page magazine away from the ones
I have previously analysed are the
headings. The headings are often
very colorful and ornate, taking up
a large portion of the page above
the article.
This heading will usually contain the same
colours as the photograph or illustration
and be themed to match the subject of the
article.
5. Young, Fresh and Relevant Magazine
YFR magazine is again similar, but often takes
simplicity and division between text and
imagery to the extreme.
For example as you can see in the image to
the left the image and text are on opposite
pages and do not take up their pages and are
very clearly separated. The example I have
shown is a poem and this sort of presentation
for poems is not unusual, but YFR magazine
present a lot of their articles in this way.
There is a definite trend in the refined way in
which the magazines I like present their
articles and images and this is something I
would like to re-create in my own work.
6. Headin
g
Body (adobe Hebrew)
Heading Body (Century Gothic)
Heading Body (Courier)
For my text I just want a standard, simple
and clean font. I will use interesting images
that will mean that the reader is not
disappointed with the plain font.
Heading Body
(HectorRounded
)
Heading Body (Helvetica)
