The document analyzes the cover designs of three existing magazines - a gaming magazine called Artifact, a Batman film magazine called The Dark Night Rises, and a travel magazine called Wildlife Encounters. It describes the key design elements of each magazine cover, including mastheads, cover lines, images, colors, fonts, and use of photos vs text. It then identifies common features across the magazines as mastheads at the top, a limited number of cover lines, bold colors, large central images, barcodes at the bottom, and bold fonts. The document considers which aspects of this research could inform the design of its own magazine covers.

1. Research
Abigail Long

2. Existing Product
Front cover
Double Page Spread
Audience Profile

3. Existing Product
Masthead at the top
for convenience and
attention
Picture taken directly
from video game
footage
Contains articles
about several games
and game companies
The letters are bold and
dark, to better stand
out. They have a glow
effect to match the fiery
background.
There’s more pictures
than text as gaming is
very visual
The colors are bright
and bold to gain the
readers attention, and
make it seem more
intense and tough.
Fire can represent pain
and anger, suggesting
the game is violent.
The interesting articles
it promises, along with
the cover art pulls the
reader in and makes
them want to read
more.

4. Existing Product
Front cover Double Page Spread
Audience Profile

5. Existing Product
Masthead at the top
for convenience and
attention
Picture of Batman,
possibly a costume
from the comics or
created by the fans
to show a
connection to the
movies/comics.
Articles about films
and the films
creators.
The colors are dark
and grim with some
yellows, to represent
the batman style.
It’s heavily pictured,
as the magazine will
go off both the
video game art style
and the comic art
style.
The fact that they’re
covering something
so popular and well
known will gravitate
the readers to the
magazine.
The letters look
similar to the
styling of the
comics, and are
the same colors as
the normal logo.

6. Existing Product
Front cover
Double Page Spread
Audience Profile

7. Existing ProductMasthead at the top
of the magazine for
convenience and
attention
Picture of a bear, a
cute looking
animal, walking
through water to
invoke a sense of
happiness and
calm
Articles about
different animals and
travel locations
The colors are
calm and natural
to better suit the
environmental
theme
The magazine is
mostly pictures to
show off all sorts of
locations that the
reader may want to
visit

8. Research Analysis
• What common features do the researched products have?
• Masthead at the top of cover
• Small variety of cover lines
• Bold colours
• A single image covering most of the page
• Barcode at the bottom of the page
• Bold fonts
• What aspects of the research will you include within your on work?
• Masthead at top of the cover
• Small variety of cover lines
• Bold colours
• Barcode
• Bold fonts?

9. Bibliography

10. Bibliography
1. Gamer, P.C. 2017. Artifact. The world's number one PC gaming magazine.
325(1), pp. 1-38.
2. Total, F.I.L.M. 2018. The Dark Night Rises. The ultimate batman issue.
2(18), pp. 1-38.
3. Wanderlust, T.M. 2018. Wildlife Encounters. Travel Magazine. 9(18), pp.
1-38.