This document summarizes the design process for a magazine cover. The cover uses a grid layout with three fonts and keeps to a black, white, and blue color scheme. Feedback suggested adding artist names across the page rather than the side for consistency with inspiration magazines. Boxes were then added around text elements for improved readability.

1. Front cover

2. • Here is the front cover in
InDesign after I finished
designing it.
I have tried to keep my strap
lines in place with the grid lines
to keep it looking neat and tidy.
I have also kept to three fonts,
AR DESTINE, IMPACT and Dotum
so that the page doesn’t look
very busy. I have chosen three
fonts instead of two as InDesign
won’t allow me to change the
font (such as making it in italics)
and so for more variation I
decided to pick another font.
As you can see I have also stuck
to the colour scheme of black,
white and blue and also the
second mock up I did of the
front cover.

3. This is what the magazine would look like
with no additional lines placed on top. At
the bottom left there is a large black block
and this is going to be where my free CD is
going to be placed. I have left a gap as I
wanted to see what my magazine would
look like first before creating the CD cover
as I’m going to use the same background
that I used for the image onto the cover to
create consistency.
Also, the magazine I used for inspiration
has the same design on the CD cover as
on the background of the image.

4. As you can see
the same
patterns are used
in both areas
which is what I
am aiming to do.

5. Inspiration magazine My magazine

6. Audience feedback:
• Many have said that the magazine is good but
to improve I could add the artists’ name
across the page rather than on the side. This
makes it look more similar to the inspirational
magazine and therefore making it look more
realistic.
• In addition to this, I should add boxes around
the straplines as this has been done to the
MixMag magazine

7. Improvements
• I added white boxes around the straplines as
blue was hard to see against the blue
background.
• I also moved the “DJ AMZZ” into the centre
and put a white box around that as well