My own front cover.

Rolling Stones Magazine.

Both have decent size images that draw readers attentions and are clear to what the magazine is featuring.

This convention, writing around the edge of the magazine with the paragraphs aligned up to the side of the page, both these covers used this and have clear visible writing/ font which is easy to read and makes it clear to the audience what the stories inside the magazine are about.

Date and Price in the corners above the magazine title.

The ‘features’ are written on the contents not every page is noted only the main stories and exclusive interviews. Maybe even certain pages the magazine wants you to read/ focus on more are included.

The use of images have both been used in these two contents pages, I looked at this one when trying to layout mine, I liked the used of some images in the contents page to catch the attention of readers and it was different to other ones I had seen.

The text is small but has a lot of writing, looks very detailed and interesting. They are both laid out in columns and paragraphs. Which is a typical convention to use when designing a double spread for a magazine.

A big, noticeable image is used for the background, it relates to the story of the double spread and again is one of the main conventions when designing a magazine.

Editing of the image is used in both of these, the faded image of the bottom magazine spread is more noticeable than my one but I also faded out the image behind the text to make it more readable and clear.