Cover page ideas.

I have been very inspired by the clash magazine covers, all issues are very similar and keep their style the same through every magazine. The fonts do vary in the issue by all are very similar, the mast header 'CLASH' is always the same font but the magazine issue title and text on the magazine fonts are all very similar and big they fill the rest of the page that the image isn't filling.

For my cover page looking at clashes magazine cover pages i want mine to look similar. I like their big, bold and type writer fonts they use, also the layout of the text on the page i want to copy even the placing and positioning of the car code i wish to copy. Although i plan to copy this style and layout of the clash magazine i also want to be able to put my own mark on my magazine cover design, make it more my own but influenced by this magazines style and layout design.

Weekly target.

This week i plan to start designing or redesigning my cover page, start playing with new and old ideas from my draft with the influence of clash magazines design. Being as i although have done my potential design of my contents page i need to now follow that design throughout my magazine, taking the clash designs into account as well but placing my own mark and ideas into my own magazine cover page design as well.

Magazine final draft.

These are my final drafts of my front cover, contents page and double page spread. I was able to use all the correct fonts i wanted accept for my double page spread i had to change the front to be more readable as the font couldn't fit on that one page i wanted the text to be placed. So then i had to change the font of the contents page and look like it all came from the same magazine. I am unhappy about my images as they all show shadows due to the lack of lighting i had available and that all my models didn't turn up so i had to improvise and only take an image of two of them for the contents page when their should be four of them, an image of the whole band. I shall be doing my photos again for my final design so thats its exactly what i want it to be and look like.

I did hand in my double page spread with the article written on it but due to complications with the software i used to put the article on the page layout i made on photoshop i couldn't place the final design on my blog, i should be able to after to its been marked on paper.

Inspirational cover pages.

Magazine mock up.

This is my mock up for my cover page design. i was influenced by I-D magazine to place my magazine title in the top left hand corner of the page on its side going down the page, i find this really effective and unique. As i have chosen my magazine style to be simplistic i kept my cover page simply, with a masthead, main image filling the whole page and a cover line. 

This is my mock up of my contents page. i was influenced by the contents pages i research, i haven't placed the word contents page on here because i want it to look simplistic and unique. the layout is pretty basic, iv only used one image which i was debating weather to place filling the whole page half of the page or just in the right hand side at the top of the page. i found this look really effective, with more information on the contents page about the pages in my magazine.

This is a mock up of my double page spread, again iv kept it simply. Iv used just the one image filling the whole left and side page and using little quotes on both pages to attract the readers to read the full article. while i have placed the title of the interview at the top of the right hand side page and my magazine title small in the right hand corner which will be on ever page of the magazine as well as the page number too.

Style of magazine's

I am very influenced by i-D magazine's style, i love how all its cover pages are brief and simple, they never give much away about the main article. I also love how the i-D stands for a wink face and every artist they have on the cover page is always winking or look like they may be winking, it has made its own stamp and is recognised for its winking cover photo. From this i want to have my own stamp on my magazine like the winking to make magazine look and feel unique from others. This magazine style is so stylish and simple but serious, and thats what i want my magazine to be like, so basic that its dramatic and cool.

I am also very influenced and inspired by CLASH magazine. I love their style of fonts and layout through out all their magazine, they will suit my genre as their style is so unique and different. They are very striped back and simplistic as well, as most images are simply but effective and layout, their text gets straight to the point.