LO1 - Examples of existing magazines

I am going to be making a magazine that revolves ariound local music.

Here are some examples of music magazine covers

 

These magazines are useful examples, because of there use of varying fonts, distinct house style, and the way that the cover lines are displayed around the main cover images. 

Here are some examples of contents pages

 

I think that these are good examples because of their simplistic design, image to text ratio, and the way that the information is displayed.

Here are some examples of double page spreads

 I like how the image to text ratio is balanced throughout these examples, I also find it interesting how some maintain their house style whilst others deviate from it. 

These examples are also useful for figuring out how to position my columns and borders

 The artist's don't look at the camera as much in the double page spread, because readers have already bought the magazine and so don't need to be drawn in to purchase.