The document describes the process of designing a magazine cover. Key details include adding logos and coverlines to make the cover look authentic, adjusting text placement and colors to make elements stand out, and getting feedback from an audience to improve readability by outlining text and increasing font sizes. The final cover incorporated this feedback.

1. I then added one of my plugs/ coverlines
about a free monthly download along with
logos of brands to make it look more
authentic. I decided to use white text with a
blue outline because the white didn’t stand
out and blue didn’t look nice, plus, by it being
outlined it would stand out from the rest of
the page to the consumer, thus compelling
them to buy the magazine. I shifted the text
to the left so it was in line with the left side of
the page. I tilted the logos as it didn’t look
authentic otherwise.
I then added my ‘skyline’ but instead of
putting it at the top of the page I put it at
the bottom, which I similar to how NME did
it. I then alternated the colours where white
was used for every other word and black
was used for the commas so I ended up
using all four colour sin my colour scheme.
Unfortunately, you can’t read some of the
text, so I might give them on outline.

2. I added an image above the ‘skyline’
along with a coverline and teaser,
where I adjusted the widths so it
didn’t overlap onto her clothes . I had
to make the font smaller so it would
fit, which makes the rest of the text
stand out
I then added more coverlines, and teasers
where I alternated the size according to how
many pages I was going to spend on them in
the article. I also alternated the colours
because all blue looked too boring and so
did all red. Also, Blender did something
similar and I really liked it , so I thought that
I would do something similar.

3. I moved some of the artists on the left
side and I like this better as it frames
her outline and her face and it doesn’t
ruin the front cover. I also put a grey
outline on some of the white text so it
would be more readable and I added a
price and issue date under the
masthead to follow conventions. I also
made the flash width smaller and
adjusted the width of the text so there
aren’t any blank spaces any more and
I’m fairly happy with this version.
I asked for some audience feed back
and they liked it overall but they
thought that the text was too small and
that some of the skyline was
unreadable . Also, they didn’t like the
blank space between the masthead
and the flash and they felt that this
could be filled. Finally, they thought
that the main teaser looked a bit strage
where it was and it could just go across
her body like the rest of the text.
This is my final product and I worked on the
feedback I received from my target
audience, where I outlined the ‘skyline in a
darker blue; I increased the size of the text
slightly and I made the teaser for the
coverline go across my artists body.