The author created two magazines - a school magazine and a music magazine - to improve their skills. They analyzed the differences between the two magazines. The music magazine had a clearer masthead font that would attract readers, used fonts related to the genre of music, incorporated more design elements like colors and images on the cover, and had a more professional looking contents page that included social media links. Creating the initial school magazine allowed the author to learn InDesign and Photoshop skills and identify design weaknesses to improve upon for the music magazine. The author felt they better understood magazine design conventions and grew more confident in their abilities after completing this project.