The document summarizes the key things the author learned in creating magazine front covers for a school magazine and music magazine. For the music magazine, the author used feedback from multiple drafts to improve the design. Some lessons learned were to make the masthead eye-catching, use color to draw attention to important text, stick to a limited color scheme, and include relevant content for the target audience. The author changed conventions like using a livelier font and darker, less conventional image for the music magazine that better suited the indie rock genre and younger audience.