The document provides a critique of the design of several music magazines. It summarizes that the first magazine has a terrible color scheme with too many contrasting colors that do not work well together. The main image is poorly cropped with the subject's head cut off. The layout has overlapping text that is difficult to read. The second magazine analyzed has a decent color scheme but the text "Issue 1 Dec 2011" is barely visible. The contents page effectively uses images and spacing but the green title does not complement the color scheme. The third magazine has a powerful cover image but thin, pixelated text that is hard to read against the dark brown background color. This does not clearly indicate it is for a school magazine.

1. The colour scheme for this music magazine is quite terrible because there are way too many contrasting colours on this, therefore it doesn’t work very well. The image in the middle is cropped very poorly because you can see where she hasn’t bothered to smooth out the edges and her head has been cut off. The person who made this magazine obviously doesn’t know how anything about layout because the text is overlapping way to much and this generally looks poor. Overall this design was terrible because the designer hasn’t taken into consideration the basic rules of designing, her colour scheme is garbage because there isn’t a colour scheme. The text for each of her different tittles are written in all different text, some of them are unreadable. I noticed that the text that says ‘Win an IPod just by writing and adventure story, the text is overlapping really badly.

2. These school front and contents pages are much better than the previous one I annotated. The front page on the right has a decent colour scheme with green, red and blue. The text is written spaciously around the main focal point of the front page. The text is ok because it’s quite appropriate for the magazine because the target is a younger audience. I noticed at in the background of the front page ‘Issue 1 Dec 2011’ is barely noticeable is should be larger and much clearer. The contents page is much better there is a good use of the images the size of each image is very good because they work well with each other because they are all in line and use the space well. The title is probably the only criticism about this contents page because the green seems out of place because it doesn’t really compliment the colour scheme. They have a good use of titles for the separations of the different pages, the use of red is also good because it’s eye catching.

3. The magazine on the was made very well because there choice of image was a very powerful one the only thing I would say about it that it’s doesn’t have much to do with school. The text is barely visible and quite thin and pixelated. I don’t really like the choice of colour I think that the brown is too dark. The brown doesn’t really help the image if the magazine because when I look at this magazine I wouldn’t really think this was a school magazine there is not really a real indication that says ‘school magazine’ which isn’t really a bad this but somebody could get and aberrant reading.