Analysis on magazines Vogue and The Big Issue.

1. Vogue Magazine(July 1965)

2. • This is what vogue magazine looked like back then in the 1960’s, the
imagery is very much a head shot, looking at some of the others they're
all the same, it doesn’t usually go beyond their face. Looking at vogue in
todays generations its changed a lot, the imagery has widened out more
allowing the women to have their whole body within the magazine and
not just their face.
• Looking at them side by side some things haven’t changed, for example
the heading, the typography has remained the same but looking at the
more older generation the title colour doesn’t really stand out where as
todays magazine has a more bold shaper title which catches your
attention more. The actual look of them both is quite apparent, the old
vogue has this older look to it, old styled clothes, a more old styled
colour combination where as today has a more slick polished look to it,
the colour choice is a lot more brighter and the colours reflect on each
other very well.
• Not a lot has changed which could be them connoting on the past and
how there are still some things that have stayed the same like women's
rights which people still have trouble accepting. On the other hand they
have made a few small changes like how they bring the model forward
and the heading behind suggesting women stepping forward and being
central, they’ve added a lot more text to the front covers, consisting of
text like “The most powerful women in art” which could be maybe
promoting women's strength.
• Published monthly by Cond’e Nast, 1916 to present.
• Set edition: July 1965.

3. The Big
issue(Oct 17-23 2016)

4. • There mission is to dismantle poverty by creating opportunity through self-help,
social trading and business solutions.
• The Big Issue magazine launched in 1991 in response to the growing number of
rough sleepers on the streets of London, by offering people the opportunity to
earn a legitimate income through selling a magazine to the public. Twenty-five
years on, their vendors came from a variety of backgrounds and face the myriad
of problems associated with poverty and inequality.
• Published weekly by Dennis and The Big Issue, 1991 to present.
• Set edition: October 17-23 2016.
• Price: £2.50
• Circulation: 82,000 readership.
• Born in Notting Hill in 1946, Lord Bird found himself in some of the worst slums
in London. At the time, Notting Hill had the worst infant mortality rate in the UK
and was in deep poverty. ‘There were six of us and my parents weren’t
particularly good at paying the rent, so I was homeless at the age of five and we
stayed in a void in the roof of a cottage which is now the Wessex Estate on
Ledbury Road.
• Comparing both of these magazines, you can see how they’ve changed in the
slightest ways. Id say the newer version is a lot more full, the older copy has
more sections empty, but looking at the newer magazine which is promoting
their 25 anniversary of the magazine, so there going to want it to be full showing
how hard they’ve worked over the years and how far they’ve come to get the
homeless some help. Another difference I can recognise about the two
magazines is that the older version doesn’t look that collected, it looks like they
just got text and images and then pasted them around in different sections
where as the other one looks more cohesive and actually thought out.