This document summarizes a magazine article. It describes the layout and design elements of several magazine spreads. The spreads analyzed have simple color schemes with bold fonts to attract their target audiences. Photographs on the covers feature artists written about in the magazines. The layouts maintain consistency across pages with balanced text to image ratios and clear paragraph breaks. The magazines discussed appear to target teenagers and young adults based on their design and article length.

1. Market research
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2. The style of this have also added hot
magazine is very pink writing into the
simple, they have magazine showing
used a white that the target
background and then audience is aimed at
black bold writing to females.
stand out for the logo
of the magazine, they
The main picture of the front cover as she is a
front cover is a picture well known singer in the
of someone who is UK and the USA, she is
included, this is shown shown in shorts and a
in the subheading on cropped top with colours
the left hand side of the on them which reflect
magazine that has an Katy’s attitude which
article wrote about her, accentuates her
the picture is in a studio femininity and uses that
and it is a posed photo to promote the
by using a mid long magazine.
shot, Katy Perry is the
Blender magazine

3. The heading of this page is the same
style font as the heading on the front
cover which is showing consistency in
the magazine keeping it looking neat,
also they use similar style text to
keep it all the same theme
throughout the magazine.
In this double page spread the picture text ratio is kept the same as one page is
portraying the artist and the other page is an article on, the front cover has carried on
with the white background and black text and also the picture is in black and white to
match the theme with little colour of aqua and pink on the page which is simply but
neatly laid out. This is targeted at a teen/early adult age range as there is quite a lot of
text but not too much to lose interest in the article and also it is split into paragraphs
to clearly see the different sections.
Blender magazine double page
spread

4.  Dennis publishing publishes around 31
magazines based in UK and America, they
publish a range of magazines, from blender a
music magazine to maxim a men’s health
magazine but they originally started with a
kung fu magazine.
 There market varies throughout many
magazines which focus on different ranges of
audiences which means they have to vary
how they publish things to fit the target
group they are aiming magazines at.
Blender magazine publisher

5. The colour scheme of this magazine is
white, black and red which shows that
the target audience for this magazine
is males. The heading is in red bold
letters to make it stand out against
the black background along with the
white lettering, these are intense,
bright colours that show up.
The cover picture is on an artist that
has an interview in the magazine which
is trying to promote the magazine by
the style music the artist makes, this is
a posed photo which is set with a black
tiled backing.
Vibe

6. The front page theme has
been carried out into the
magazine double spread pages
as the pictures are in black
and white and the colour
scheme has stayed the same
but swapped with a white
background and black text but
still with red writing.
In this double page spread the text to picture ratio is kept the
same as there is two pictures on each page which take up half
the page and the other half is filled with writing and again this
magazine is aimed at around the same age range of late teens
– early twenties as there is quite a lot of text to get through on
the page but is well laid out and separated into paragraphs.
Vibe