The document discusses how magazines use visual design elements like large prominent images of popular artists, high color contrast, and strategic text placement to draw readers' attention to articles and promote sales. Key details like the artist's name and exclusive content are emphasized over the magazine brand or masthead. Images and quotes about the artists are used to attract readers, especially fans of that music genre or celebrity. The visual hierarchy and emphasis on artists over other elements ensures readers will notice and be drawn to articles about their favorite stars.

1. A large picture of Bruno mars is the prominent image for the
music magazine. As Bruno Mars is a popular artist, this draws
people to the magazine. Furthermore the magazine is easy
to look at due to the easy contrast of his red shirt to the blue
background.
The main masthead of this
magazine is hidden behind the
main artist. It is obvious by this
that the identity of the magazine
is less important than the stars is
shows off. This is most likely
because those looking to buy
magazines, don’t go after the
brand but the articles and stars
within.
Bruno Mars’ shirt is
used cleverly to
bring him to the
foreground of the
image by contrasting
to the blue
background.
The largest text beside the
masthead is that of the
name: Bruno Mars. Again
we can see the emphasis of
the magazine of artist over
brand, or even articles.
The article text is small,
leading the readers
eyes to be drawn to the
artist and masthead. In
this way again the
emphasis is on artist
over all.

2. KERANG is clearly in the
background overshadowed by
the image of Chester
Bennington, again the
magazine focuses on the main
selling star of it’s magazine
then the brand of the
magazine.
This magazine contrasting to
billboard, uses images of other
bands and articles around the
main image of advertising Linkin
Park. In this way those who are not
fans of them are still drawn to buy
the magazine through the other
articles.
A header is used at the top of the
magazine advertising those things
being given away within. The
yellow background contrasts highly
to the red in order to bring the
readers eyes to it.
Yellow and white text are
used throughout in contrast
to the red of the background
in order to grab the readers
attention.

3. While it is subtle at the top of the double page spread it can
be clearly seen that the article is entirely exclusive, this
immediately attracts audiences as they cannot read it
anywhere else but in person.
Half of the double page spread is taken up a
photo of the magazine seller which in this
case is Justin Bieber. By having such a large
and prominent photo of him it ensures that
the reader does not pass the article by.
A quote is used directly at the top of the
page: interestingly it focuses on Bieber’s
interaction with women. As his fan base is
predominantly female this makes the
article much more attractive to them.
Another smaller image is
used within the article of
Bieber and Selena Gomez
another popular topic
within Justin’s fanbase
attracting the audience to
the article.

4. As seen previously an image of the
artist is used taking up half of the
double page spread, in this way the
reader is drawn the article by the
star and do no ignore the text.
The largest and most prominent text is that of
the singer: again any reader or fan would be
drawn instantly to the article with the
combination of both text and image.
The second most prominent
image here is the flower,
this adds a slight quality feel
to the article and it’s yellow
links into the overall theme
of the article.
Again as seen previously a quote is used in order
to pull the reader into the article, mass text is
usually ignored by habit but the quote is intriguing
and for this reason the article is less likely to be
ignored.