Good and Bad Magazine Covers

Good Examples

I found examples of magazines that I personally thought were effective. This will be very helpful when designing because I now know what makes these covers effective and apply this to my designs. From this research I found that it is best to keep additional typefaces simple and keep the amount of fonts to a minim to avoid it looking cluttered and uncoordinated. I also found it is effective to integrate the text around the images by placing it in front or behind the blend them together and make the page flow better. Colour schemes should be kept simple and should be stuck to, and this stops the magazine looking busy and stops the colours distracting from the content and taking over the page.

Bad Examples

I also found bad examples of magazine covers and this helped me to see what to avoid when designing so I could make sure I didnt make these mistakes. From this I found that patterned backgrounds should be avoided because this makes the cover look cluttered and makes it hard to read the text. Colour schemes should be kept simple because too many different colours is very distracting and doesn't give the cover a clear and cohesive feel. The variety of fonts should be kept minimal because lots of different fonts becomes confusing and give stye cover no clear style as well as making it hard to know where to look and the cover just won't flow very well. I also found that the layouts where the page is halved doesn't work well because there is no clear focal point and the page does not flow well and looks very cluttered and confusing.