The document analyzes the cover design of a Q magazine featuring Cheryl Cole. It notes several key design elements: - A large, bold photo dominates the cover to attract attention. - The title is a red square with white lettering, giving the magazine a distinctive identity. - Different fonts are used for cover text to add variety and highlight important content. - Featuring Cheryl Cole appeals to her young fanbase and helps boost sales. - The design uses simple and effective color, layout, and typography to showcase the featured artist and intrigue readers.

1. Title – the title is
monolythic and very
simple but quite
dominating over the page
as it covers part of the
picture. For Q magazine
the title is always a red
square with a white ‘Q’
giving the magazine its
own identity therefor its
okay for some of the logo
to be covered due to its
popularity.
Picture - Only using one picture which dominates the whole page
making it very eye catching. The colours within the picture are also
very bold and daring which suggests the type of story the magazine
will contain making the magazine more appealing. The picture is very
dark which has links to rock.
Top bar – text is quite spread out
rather than tight and is a small size
possibly to show how it’s a known
fact how the magazine is so popular
and they don’t need to print this fact
big and bold.
They have placed the
barcode underneath the
magazine name
Cover text – the magazine
Makes up for lack of pictures
with text. They have used
different fonts which adds
variety and takes it away from
being simple and boring. The
font size also increases the
higher up the list you go
possibly stating which part of
the content is more important
and interesting.
Use readers knowledge – “3
words” was the title of one of
Cheryl Coles singles so her fans
could relate to this and boost
sales.
Layout - Everything on the
page is very square shape
and straight edges but they
break this mould by
introducing this circular
shape
Target audience – Q magazine is
usually aimed at a slightly more
mature audience than teens
however Cheryl Cole attracts
younger fans which widens the
audience for this issue which will
help to boost sales.
Headline - Main HEADLINE: very eye catching
and simple – states the person in the pictures
name and a one word header which is “rocks”
– evident the genre of music is rock
Colour scheme - The colour scheme
for this cover is black white and red
which is very basic but effective for
this cover and what its trying to
achieve

2. As you can see here are a variety of different genres of music magazines. The pictures I have gathered include genres
such as rock, pop, country, jazz, classical and indie. After looking at the different magazine covers I can see how the
layout and design of each one is very different in its own way. The opera magazine is very simple and classical portraying
its genre where as the kerrang cover is very full and lively showing how its genre is wild and loud. By looking at
contrasting covers, I have a variety of research to look upon and help me decide how I want to design my magazine.

3. This magazine only uses one
main picture for the cover.
Opera can be seen as a dull
subject and using this large
image will enhance
popularity as its more eye
catching.
The title is in a simple font and is quite large and covers the top of the image which
makes it quite dominating. The word “opera” is in italics to show what the magazine
is about and the word “now” is in bold which makes it quite direct and almost like a
command. This boldness helps entice customers and show how direct and proud
opera can be.
This magazine only
uses one main picture
for the cover. Opera
can be seen as a dull
subject and using this
large image will
enhance popularity as
its more eye catching.
They’ve added a small box at the bottom which
looks like a competition. This is appealing to buyers
as they have put the word “win” in capitals and bold
and also broke the colour scheme by putting it in
yellow.
Very little added text on
the cover. The font and
text size is quite dull and
small and they have used
a pastel colour for the
text which is quite
boring.
They have used a
subtitle before
introducing who it is in
the image. They have
used the sentence
“divine diva” which is
alliteration. Alliteration is
an English technique
which make the
magazine look elegant
and stylish but can also
make it appear dated,
especially as the text is
in an old fancy font