The document analyzes and compares the covers of three college magazines. The first magazine analyzed has a plain nude colored cover with simple fonts, reflecting the educational focus of the college. The main image is of a girl facing down in a bored posture, making the cover feel cold and uninviting. The second magazine has a colorful but relaxed color scheme and a main image of daffodils, resembling a gardening magazine more than a fun student life. It has a serious high-brow tone. The third magazine cover analyzed is the author's favorite, featuring a large artistic collage image of George Washington made up of small student photos. It has personality and charisma while keeping the design

1. Analysis of college magazine

2. This cover of the Beloit college magazine looks very plain with use of nude colours and plain fonts, it looks very educational. It isn’t a fun looking cover, and is something that wouldn’t appeal to me as a reader but it probably reflects the students that study at this college. The masthead is white on a black background this makes it stand out and is the first thing you look at, the font is sans serif. It has little writing, the writing fits around the main image making it very neat and makes viewing the image easier. The main image has a girl facing down, the fact she isn’t facing towards you makes the cover quite cold and uninviting. It’s meant to be about education and at college your supposed to enjoy working hard the main image doesn’t show this, she looks un-atheistic and very bored. They haven't concentrated on putting everything on the left hand side which is usually a code and convention of any magazine.

3. This University magazine is again not representing a fun student life, it looks more like a gardening magazine as the main image is of daffodils and green grass. The mast head has feet so the font is a serif font. The front cover is colourful but not in your face, it’s a relax use of colours, the yellow writing will have something to do with the Daffodils on the main image. It’s a high brow educational magazine, wouldn’t appeal to an average college as it’s got no special incentives or freebies its just very serious.

4. The ‘Washington’ college magazine the left hand side cover is my favourite one and the main image is off loads of little photos making a larger image of George Washington, it’s so arty, full of personality and charisma. The small images are pictures of the students that attend the college. The masthead is white which is something that is on every college magazine I have analysed, it’s probably because it’s the cleanest and easiest to read out of any colour. This cover is a picture of a statue of George Washington, they have blurred out the background so the focus is more on the statue, the writing is very minimal with only one cover line and some text at the bottom. The colours are very plain and washed out but the image is so clear that it doesn’t matter too much. Neither or there college magazines would appeal to average sudents.