Halima Khan designed a double page spread for Nation Hits magazine featuring singer Marcus Cole. She included the magazine's "N" logo to identify it as belonging to Nation Hits. She added a background of white and red lines to make the page stand out. Khan used different fonts for the logo, title, and singer's name to distinguish the elements. She placed a large main image of Cole alongside a smaller one to portray his passion for music. Later, Khan edited the images and changed some colors to better emphasize the images and title against the red background while keeping the lines on the side. She wrote a short text providing insight into Cole's career achievements to intrigue audiences about his future plans. Khan created all three magazine pages using

1. CREATING MY DOUBLE PAGE
SPREAD
BY HALIMA KHAN

2. DESIGNING MY LOGO AND BACKGROUND
Whilst creating my double page
spread, I decided to include the “N”
logo to make the audience aware that
this specific double page spread
belongs to Nation hits magazine. I
wanted to make the double page
spread stand out in comparison to the
cover and content, that’s why I
decided to add a background effect.
The effect I decided to go for was
white lines, on the right hand side,
and then bigger red lines on the left. i
believe the lines added emphasis to
the page and made it look more
effective.

3. LOGO AND IMAGE
I used the main magazine logo “N” in
my double page spread, simply so the
audience are aware that this page
belongs to the “nation hits” magazine.
I used a variety of fonts. I used the
font “chalkboard” with a large size of
“240” in order to make the “N” stand
out from the rest of the page. I then
used “tekton pro” for the actual title of
the page, and lastly for the name of
the singer, I used “Lucida blackletter”
as the subheading in order for the
audience to distinguish the difference
between the title and the singers name.
I decided to place a large image,
alongside a smaller one on the right
hand, and them both of different
poses. The poses suggest that the
singer is passionate about singing, and
values music an awful lot.

4. NEW BACKGROUND AND LOGO
During the process of changing
my double page spread, I
decided to change the colours
slightly by changing the orange
to a dark red, so that there was
emphasis on the images,
alongside the made the title of
the page stand out on red
background. The colours are
still bright, however I felt the
red flowed better and didn't’t
make the double page spread
look messy. I decided to keep
the lines on the side, however
to change the colour to black,
and change the subtitle “Cole
world” to a white to add
significance to the subtitle.

5. EDITING THE MAIN IMAGE
With the use of Photoshop I
edited the main image on my
double page spread. I
brightened the image with the
use of “effect of filter,
magenta” on quark to make the
picture look effective. I also
changed the background to a
orange/red in order to blend in
with the double page
background.

6. Editing the new images
During the process of adjusting my double page spread, I felt
image was a key feature that attracts the audience, therefore I
changed my model, and decided that they should have a posture
and pose that indicates toughness and fieriness. I have added three
main images of the model posing in three different ways to show
he promotes hip-hop/grime and contributes well to the thug life. To
edit these three images, I used Photoshop to add a red filter,
increase the brightness alongside the contrast, and lastly used a
magnetic tool to get rid of the background.

7. The article is about Marcus Cole’s come up and the release of his
second album after heading to the 54th Grammy Awards and
earning a nomination for the number 1 spot for Best New Artist.
After his album rose to number 1 later in the year he gained even
more recognition once he achieved his second number one single
on the charts. This gives the audience an insight into Marcus's
career, and makes the audience intrigued to know what he has in
plan for his audience for the future. I felt it was vital to keep the
text fairly short seeing as the audience would probably not read
the text if it was any bigger, and just added the exciting, moving
and inspiring things Marcus has done throughout his music
career.
Text on my double page spread

8. USING QUARK
I have used QUARK for all three of my pages which are front cover,
double page spread, and lastly content page. I used the same tools on
each page with the use of quark.
For this specific page, I had used color, measurements ( font, size) and
lastly page layout.