This document analyzes and compares the front covers of two magazines - Vibe and Blender. For Vibe, the main points made are that the title is simple and bold in blue, the masthead is big and bold, and the main image is of rapper Kanye West. For Blender, the points are that the title is big and bold in black, the masthead uses pink and black colors, and the main image is of singer Katy Perry. Overall, it finds that Vibe has a darker, edgier style while Blender has a softer, brighter style more aimed at women. Recommendations for a new magazine cover include using bright colors, simple text, and catchy designs.

1. Magazine Front Cover Analysis
Matthew Rogero

2. Moodboard

3. Title of Magazine
- The title of the magazine is
simple and bold
- The colour blue is really
attractive
- The masthead doesn’t use
serif styles

4. Masthead & Selling Line
- Masthead is very simple, big
and bold
- It is also bright which makes it
very appealing
- The selling line are about the
role models themselves which
would make it appealing to
that role model's audience
- The text on the left tends to be
bigger than the right, this
makes the magazine look
more eye catching
- The colour pink really stands
out and is easy to read

5. Main Image
- The celebrity in this magazine is
Kanye West. He is a very
famous rapper in todays music
industry
- People who like rap will get
attracted to this type of
magazine
- The facial impression that he
has is very simple, it doesn’t
show a lot of emotion

6. Cover Lines & Main Sells
- From what we can see we have
a lot of selling stories that we
can see in front of the
magazine, this simply attracts
the audience.
- The text of the stories are also
very bright and bold, this just
simply makes it attractive to the
audience
- The placement of the text is
very eye catching as well, we
can see that it gets bigger from
the left then gets smaller to the
right, this makes it appealing
because the bigger stories are
on the left

7. Second Magazine

8. Title of Magazine
- The text style of the title is
big and bold
- We can see how much the
colour black stands out
- The text also doesn’t use
serif styles
- We can tell that the title
name is ‘Blender’ even
though the model is in front
of the text
- This is a magazine aimed
specifically for women
- The audience for this
magazine from what we can
see is people who like pop
music

9. Masthead & Selling Line
- We can see the text of the selling
lines uses non bold text, in my
opinion it makes the selling lines
easier to read.
- The colour pink and black is what
makes this magazine really stand
out. These are the only colours that
is used for the text of the magazine
- We can also see that they used the
colour pink to highlight the big
artists.

10. Main Image
• The celebrity in this magazine is
Katy Perry, she is a very
successful singer in todays music
industry
• The sex appeal that Katy Perry
has is what would attract people
to look at this magazine
• We can see the facial expression
that she has is very seductive, I
think that this was used to attract
more people in general

11. Comparisons
- The appearance of the
magazine is more bright and
colourful
- The image of the role model
is a female
- The colour is a lot more
aimed at females in general
- The text is simpler and
easier to read, it uses no
serif style of writing
Vibe is an R&B magazine whereas
Blender is a pop magazine who are
targeted at women. Blender magazine
looks a lot more softer to look at where
as vibe looks a lot more edgy. The sub
stories on the magazine, in terms of
text looks a lot more softer and light.
Whereas the text on vibe is a lot more
sharper and the colours on the text are
darker.

12. Ideas for your own magazine
- Bright and bold colours
- Non serif type of text
- Simple use of text
- Masthead to be simple as
well
- Catchy title
- The background to be bright
- Slanted type of imagery to
attract the audience