This magazine cover uses Florence from Florence and the Machine as the central image. She is a popular musician, making her an engaging cover subject. Around her are landmarks from different cities, implying her music is spreading worldwide. The cover also promotes free music downloads from Florence to attract fans. Overall, the cover utilizes a popular artist and free music to generate interest in the magazine's music industry content. The masthead is large and bold, as is typical. Only a few colors are used to keep the design clean. Cover lines advertise reviews and articles about bands and songs to appeal to the music-focused readership. Placement of elements like the barcode, price and date follow standard magazine layout conventions.

1. Magazine Cover Analysis

2. The masthead is big and bold and is the first thing you notice when
The front cover also has a you look at the magazine. This is the main aim of the masthead. It is
bright red banner across the in the usual font used by Vogue so that this font is now associated Rihanna is a very popular music artist
masthead telling readers that with Vogue magazine. and so having her on the front cover
it is the 10th annual Shape makes the readers interested in the
issue, something that could story about her inside. This is
interest consumers who something that is important when
collect Vogue. It is bright red deciding who to put on your front
to really make it stand out but cover as the right celebrity or model
it also works well with can generate more interest in the
Rihanna’s hair magazine and a larger customer base.
Rihanna is photographed here with
Each cover line the main parts bright red hair which has been
and words are in capital emphasised in Photoshop to really
letters to make them stand catch the attention of the consumer.
out and be eye catching
where are the rest is in lower The colours used are quite soft and
case giving you a teaser of light meaning that the cover lines and
what the article is about. plugs really stand out and they are in
black or a bold white. The front cover
The cover lines use enticing gives of an exotic feel because of the
sentences which Vogue have way that Rihanna is dressed and the
cleverly picked out to interest ocean in the background implying
there readers. Such as ‘Fashion that she must be somewhere hot.
To Flatter Every Figure’ and ‘Eat
Yourself Happy’. Two subjects There are only 5 different
that women (there main colours used on the front cover
consumer base) as interested in (red, brown, white, black and
reading about. blue) so to keep it simple but
affective. The colour brown may
Like every magazine one of have been chosen for the
the most important features masthead because it matches
of a front cover is the Rihanna's skin tone. The chosen
barcode and price fond here colours also give the front cover
in the bottom left hand a chicness, something that
corner. consumers of Vogue expect as it
is quite a prestigious magazine.

3. Like all magazines its Masthead is a bright red colour and in bold capitals to The yellow banner in the corner of
‘Celebrating 20 years at really stand out and grab the attention of the consumer. The font is strong the magazine if a ‘Puff’ Quote -
the top!’ is another in keeping with the magazine genre. Just under the masthead there is the Words or phrases on the cover of a
‘Puff’ quote to boost date, an important part of a magazines front cover and the website for the magazine to boost its image
the magazines image. magazine.
Nicole Scherzinger is a famous
Each cover line and plug artist who is very popular at this
uses a mixture of capitals moment in time so having her on
and lower case letters to the front covers central image of
highlight the important your magazine generates its own
parts of each sentence. For interest. She is looking directly at
example the cover line ‘89 the camera engaging with the
ways to get into the consumer. Her dark eye makeup
nurturing sprit’ the 89 really makes her eyes really stand out
stands out as it is a lot and her red lips work well with
bigger than the rest of the the colour of the masthead and
cover line and so is the first certain cover lines.
thing you notice. Seeing as
this is a magazine aimed a The clothes that Nicole is
women each cover line is wearing have created a black
about a topic that would be background for the writing so the
interesting to their colours red white and yellow
consumers something that really stand out. They are all eye
magazine editors need to catching colours and give the
take into consideration magazine front cover an urban
when chosen cover lines feel to it. One of the main cover
and plugs. lines is on Nicole
herself, something that
Like all magazines the bar magazines do if they have a
code is found on the famous person as the front cover
front, for this magazine it model.
is in the bottom left hand Many different fonts are used for
corner, usually joined by each cover line on the front cover
the price. this makes it more visually
effective along with the mixture
of colours.

4. This magazines masthead is behind the front cover models head. This gives a
magazine a more professional look. This is something popular magazines can do
because their font and colour for their masthead will be well known so In the top right hand corner you
consumers only need to see a little of it to know what the magazine is. can see the issue number, date of
The predominate colour on the magazine and the price. All
this magazines front cover is important things that need to be
white, but because of the included on a front cover.
plain background all the cover
lines and plugs really stand The celebrity on the front cover
out as they use bright colours of this magazine is Zac Efron
a bold fonts for these so someone who is very popular
keeping your magazine front with teenagers and majority of
cover quite plain can be a the magazines target age group
good idea. The main cover line this could have been a reason as
is about the celebrity that is to why the did a feature on him.
used for the central image and His is wearing a white t-shirt
this is in bright red and a large which also blends into the
font to really make it stand background but it keeps the
out against the rest and catch front cover quite ‘clean’ and
your eye. professional and because of his
tanned skin this means that he
Smaller cover lines are found stands out from the background.
bellow it in orange and The way that he has lifted up his
grey, colours that work well t-shirt slightly could be for the
together and stand out. Each female readers of this magazine
cover lines uses short but as it creates a more sexual
interesting words and insights image.
to each article to grab the
readers attention. This A small yellow line is used
magazine doesn’t have a between each cover line to
specific topic that it bases itself clearly identify where on stops
on so there is a wide variety of and the other begins, this can
articles that can be found be quite effective and works
inside, we realise this by seeing well as you can fit more cover
the difference between each lines of without a confusion
cover line. between where one ends.

5. Just under the masthead is GQ magazine has quite a simple masthead as it is made up of only 2 letters which are
a motto that GQ puts on all short for ‘Gentlemen's Quarterly’. Just having a initials of your magazines name works
its magazines front covers well because they really stand out and GQ has now become a well known and popular
which is ‘Look Sharp, Live men's magazine.
Smart’. This could also been There are only 3 main colours used
known as a ‘Puff’ as this is for the cover lines and plugs on
something magazines put this front cover and they are
on their front covers to white, black and grey which all
boost its image and because really stand out and pop against
of the words used in its the red background. The important
motto you get the feeling it parts of each cover line is in
is a highly respected big, bold capital letters so that they
magazine. really stand out and grab the
readers attention, where are the
This magazine front cover is a rest of it is in slightly smaller, lower
bright red colour which is case letters.
really eye catching and bold.
The colour may have been Each cover line is chosen for the
chosen because of the front front cover for a reason as they are
cover model, Megan Fox. things that the magazine
Megan Fox is very popular knows, from their market
with men as she is seen as a research, that their readers want
very sexy women, a reason to read about. The cover lines will
why she may have been generate interest to read the rest
chosen to be on the front of the magazine. Other celebrity's
cover of this men's magazine. names are used on the front cover
What she is wearing and the as teasers to tempt the reader to
way she is posed is all done buy the magazine. The main cover
for the male consumers as to story about Megan Fox is written in
them she can been seen as such a way that it feels like they
an object of sex. The red may are talking directly to the reader to
have been used to symbolise really engage them in that article.
lust and passion. Red also A pull quote from the actual article
contrasts well with her dark is used here to attract the readers
brown hair making her really attention. ‘Megan Fox says what
stand out. she thinks and does what she
wants’.

6. This magazine, much like GQ only uses a letter as its masthead but again
it is very affective because it is big and bold and really stand out, it is also
The central image is of the At the top of this magazines
simple to remember when it comes to purchasing this magazine.
singer/ songwriter front cover is a skyline telling
Florence, from Florence and The readers that they can have free
Machine. She is very popular in music, a way of enticing
the music world at the moment readers to buy this magazine. It
making her an interesting cover also uses buzz words like
model. The photo of her on the exclusive to grab the readers
front cover is quite strong and attention and then tells them
powerful maybe insinuating that the page to turn to to get the
she is a powerful women and full story and information. The
with the famous landmarks from skyline text is bold white letters
different cities around her could against a black background to
mean that she is ‘taking over the really make it stand out.
world’ with her music. Seeing as
Florence is on the front cover it Like most magazine covers it
also mentions that you can has kept its colour scheme
download some of her song for quite simply only using 3
free so fans of her with be main colours. The black, red
especially eager to buy this and white work really well
magazine. You can also find a together creating a
cover line about her in bright red professional look. The main
to generate more interest. cover line is at the top so it
has prime position on the
Seeing as this is a music front cover. It is all in capital
magazine there target audience letter to catch the readers
will be people who arte eye, where as the other
interested in the music industry cover lines are in red and
and music itself so one of the white but these still are eye
cover lines is all about reviews of catching.
bands and songs, something that The bar code, price and date
would interest their readers. It is of this magazine are found at
a bright white circle in the corner the bottom right corner.
to really stand out.