2. Mood Board And Analysis Of Music Magazine Front Covers That Influence Me.

3. Mood Board Mood Board

8. This Hip Hop and Culture mag, ‘JUICE’ has a very rigid, continuous, and very bold house style, the type faces of the masthead, main cover line and pull quotes are all very similar. Especially in terms of colour. The main image is very chilled which may relate to the type of culture and music featured inside of the magazine.

9. The design of this cover is my favourite of all, I find the use of symmetry in an original way with the writing very stylish. The colours used, simply red and black make it feel full of action and excitement. I am seriously considering using a similar technique for my magazine cover as I love the way it stands out so much.

10. Immediately this cover gives the impression of underground, dub-step music, very bass-ey and urban. All of the type face is the same, the only difference is the mast head has a slash through it, stylizing it. I like the way the type face however changes colour on alternate lines, which seems like a consistent rule in many magazine covers I have analysed. Also, the way the text is slanted diagonally is very cool.

11. Pre –production design work and sketches

12. This early piece of design work shows the Idea I have of having a symmetrical image divided into two with a sharp bright line leading down to something which almost looks like an explosion of red colour. I like the idea of this particular design element. Over the greyscale image in the background it seems aggressive and very in your face. When I do my final cover, I will make the main image completely black and white, with no greyscale. Photoshop pre-production design…

13. This is the same idea essentially, apart from it is sketched by hand and including the idea of the figure playing guitar mirrored on either side and the mirrored text of the pull quotes. I want my final design to look very bold, contrasty and ‘cool’ and ‘trendy’. I think a cover like this would help achieve it very well as the explosion of red design is really in your face and I think will make you become interested.

14. Original sketch…..

15. Colour fill version… On this cover, what I really like is the typeface design for the lead article cover line and I will include this design on my final cover. The colours I have used in this pre-production sketch have been deliberately contrasting and opposite sides of the saturation wheel.

17. Photo shoot Photographs I have taken of which any may be used for cover or double page spread.

18. Mast head ideas and inspiration!