This document provides details about a music magazine case study. The magazine is similar in genre to pop music magazines and targets students and young adults aged 16+. It has been published monthly by Bauer Media since 1986. Key aspects of the magazine's design include a bold logo, bright colored plugs and cover images to attract readers' attention, and a consistent style with light backgrounds and darker text. Articles are laid out with large lead ins, photos, and columns of text in different sizes to make the content easily digestible.

1. Music magazine case study.

2. Type of magazine
• Similar genre: Pop music.
• Same target
audience, Students (16+)
and young adults.

3. The Facts.
• Published By: Bauer.
• First Published: October 1986
• Distribution: Monthly
• Price: £3.959
• Editor: Andrew Harrison

4. Light background – Bold logo – Large square with the Plug: ‘26 festivals to
eye catching makes letter ‘Q’ for the magazines name. blow you
the writing stand out. minds’, makes people
want to buy the
magazine and find
Bold plugs: ‘140
out about the
songs you must
festivals.
download now!’ tell
the reader what they
must do (download Cover image – Image
now) – makes them of the artist which
want to read more the main story is
about the songs and about. Bright lighting.
find out about them.
Bright/Bold colours
for the text
Bold colour for the (Red, pink, black)
main article ‘Lana Del
Rey’ florescent pink – Light background
bright eye catching. (white) with a darker
coloured text (black).
Barcode –
conventional (bottom
right of the page)

5. White Magazine logo, issue and page title at
background, makes Main picture for
the top of the page, conventional.
text stand out more article takes up most
clearer, house style? of the right side of
the page.
Simple font for title
‘Ariel Narrow?’ +Logo Smaller pictures for
of the magazine to other featured
the left. articles.
Issue number below Page numbers at the
the title in a simple bottom of the
style. pictures to show
what page the article
Subheadings is on, with a red box
‘Features’ with a red around them – house
box around style.
it, matches house
style + colours
(white, red, black)
Dividers for the
Magazine name, date and issue at
articles. – splits up
the bottom of the page.
the page, looks more
appealing.

6. Plain background (White) follows the house style of the magazine. Title of the article
‘LANA DEL REY’ top
Large letter for the start of the left of the page. –
article – takes up 1/4th of the page. tells the reader what
the article is titled.
Picture takes up the
whole of the left
page.
Larger font (16
maybe?) on the
Issue information at bottom left quarter
the bottom of the of the page.
page.
Much smaller font (8
Simple black font maybe?) for the
style. main article.
Split into columns – helps the reader digest the information
included in the article. This makes it look more appealing to
reader rather than a large block of text on the page.

7. Influences on my magazine.
• Different font styles on the front cover.
• Simple logo for the magazine – Recognisable to the readers.
• Bright colours for plugs (pinks / yellows)
• Page numbers included on the pictures for the contents page.
• Simple style title for the contents page with the logo to the
left of it.
• Dividers for the articles, this makes it much more appealing to
the reader.
• One main focus image on the double page spread (the left
page)
• Using different styles of type (font and font sizes) in the
double page spread to break up the article for the reader.