The document summarizes the design choices made for a magazine contents page. Key features included a consistent colour scheme and fonts to match the front cover. Images were chosen to relate to the accompanying features and were adjusted to stand out visually. Regular sections and special features were distinguished through size and placement. While the overall layout worked well, some additional elements like a masthead, advertisements, or background image could have further improved the professional appearance of the page.

2. Colour Scheme Features
The colour scheme of the The features are nicely
contents page matches that of ordered and numbered and
the front cover, which gives the the crossheads are bold and
magazine consistency and noticeable. The text
familiarity, which readers like. underneath the crossheads
contain a little bit of
information about each
feature, without
House Style overcrowding the page.
The house style font again is the
same as that of the front Imagery
cover, maintaining a The images used in the
familiarity, comforting the contents page are original
reader, and giving the magazine images, all of them relate to
an identity. The the features that they
colours, grey, orange, blue and accompany, and the
white can be associated with brightness/contrast levels
City College Arts Magazine. as well as the
hue/saturation have been
Regulars upped, to make them stand
The list of regulars works nicely, it’s out.
been made smaller compared to the
features for obvious Image Outline
reasons, hopefully the reader would I used the pencil tool to draw around the
find this list particularly useful if they images and to separate the regulars list in
are a long-time follower of the the bottom left corner, I think it works nicely
magazine. because it adds a sketchy, artistic feel to the
design, which fits in with the target
audience.

3. Magazine Title
Although the title of the
magazine is visible at top right of
the contents page, I haven’t
included the masthead from the White Space
front cover, which should really In the bottom right hand side
be in here. there’s a lot of white space that
hasn’t been made much use of. I
ran out of features to put in, and
felt there was enough in my list
of regulars, but could have
maybe squeezed out one more
just to fill the space.
Footer/Banner
I could have included a banner at
the bottom, or some type of
footer to display some
advertisement, or just to neaten
up the page and give it more of a
structure.

4. There wasn’t much about making the contents page that I found
particularly difficult. Having done the research and gathered my
images I put it all together quite quickly. The most challenging
thing, much like when making the front cover, was writing about each
feature without going into to much detail, but I feel I managed to do
that well enough.

5. The whole design process was quite easy, especially after having
designed the front cover, all the colours, fonts etc were already
decided, s all I had to do was gather my images from my camera, crop
them, played around with colour levels and scape my layout. I tried to
keep each feature a similar size, and overall I think everything fits quite
nicely on the page.

6. I learnt a lot designing the contents page, mostly about the common
features, terminology, how to lay things out on the page, what sort of
information to convey and how to involve more text in a design
situation. I also learnt what sort of features are commonly used as a
regulars, as well as ones that are used as special features (one offs.)

7. I could have included an
If I had the time, I would have issue number and date
my magazine name, as well as in the top right hand
the masthead, intricately corner, just to add
design and isolated at the top consistency to the
of the page. magazine.
I would make certain
features, for example
the debut EP feature
I would maybe use a bigger than other
background image features on the page so
instead of a plain grey that the reader knows
background to make the what the main story is.
page that little bit more
interesting. I would have included
advertisement at the
bottom of the page, to
make it look more
professional and
realistic.

8. My magazine contents page could be compared to GS magazine. The
background colour is similar to mine, and images have been framed in an
order, with page numbers displayed on top of the images. The text is in list
form, much like my regulars section, and the magazine title features in the top
left of the page as well.