Possible front cover

Possible front cover idea. I link the simplicity I think this could work...Maybe with eyes at the bottom of the page to incorprate the artist a little, however this leaves questions open, as you cannot see the artist herself.

Book covers

I was looking and I came upon the thoughts of Book covers, here i found some really simplistic but effective front covers. I think the colours here work so well, the simplistic text used allows the front cover to be an easy to the eye but the hand obivously holds meaning.

Wired

The graphic work on this magazine made it stand out so much to me. I think the fonts used are effective and the 4 colour pallet works well because of the stylistic element of simplisity and because the 3 fonts are simular they are effective and they stand out well. I like the bold words and simplistic speech used.

NewYork Look

The colours on this magazine makes it stand out so much. The red highlights key parts. The black keeps it looking "sleek" and "stylish" with the red symbolizing danger and power which is such a contrast from the black eyes and pale skin tones. There are 4 differenet font on the front of this magazine but there isnt much text so it still doesnt make it look too busy which i think works very well and would work on my magaizine.

David Foster Wallace

I think this book cover would work well as a magazine cover, however there would have to be a person on the front. I think the 3 split works well and makes the page look tidy although the bottom of the page is messy. I link this idea would work well with another context. I will try this wil and an image from somewhere online.

FHM

As I came to make the mock up of the contents page I struggled for ideas. I came up with something like NME and I thought it was too plain and did not stand out. This will be in a following post. Without any inspiration coming from the music magazines and ones we had already looked at, I decieded I have to look into other magazines for inspiration. I like this contents page because it is simple but still inspiring and effective. Having the darker colours in the picture makes the forecolours (fonts) stand out. Therefore allowing the reader to view it easier.

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As looking into music magazine i found this article which made me think alot.

Music magazine covers no longer grab me

In the 1970s, NME front pages were often arrestingly bold and playful. But has the art of the classic magazine cover now been lost forever?

Music magazine covers: every publication screams 'buy me'. Photograph: Richard Saker

My dad was always a firm believer that NME encouraged heroin addiction. Thus, I was strictly forbidden from purchasing the weekly inky until my 16th birthday. Maybe this explains why music magazine covers exerted such a magnetic pull on me through my teenage years. With only the consistently fluffy Record Mirror allowed into my home, my access to the more serious music press was limited to standing in newsagents ("no browsing!") gazing longingly at that week's NME cover, straining to imagine the kind of subversive delights contained therein. Unlike Melody Maker's newsy approach to covers or the slapdash method applied by Sounds, NME front pages were often arrestingly bold and playful, such as the 1976 cover celebrating the fact that Bowie was back by featuring, yes, a photo of Bowie's back.
The first NME I ever purchased, in February 1977, was a groundbreaking one. Giving over the cover to Marquee Moon marked the first occasion when an LP review was deemed worthy of a front-page story. To this day, I can recite verbatim the opening paragraph of Nick Kent's epic critique.
Little did I know it then but the music magazine cover had entered its golden age, at least as far as NME was concerned. For the next six years, moody black and white shots by Anton Corbijn, Pennie Smith and Kevin Cummins dominated. The best of those covers are etched on my memory as though carved there by a master stonemason. Captain Beefheart in the desert. Ian McCulloch standing next to a horse. A smacked-out Iggy caressing a gnarled tree. Joe Strummer at his typewriter. Kevin Rowland in his dungarees. Paul Weller with loincloth and spear. These are the issues I've held onto and stored in an air-tight box at the back of the attic.
At their most striking, NME covers managed to be completely of their time and yet managed to outlast that time. No other music publication came close. Least of all Rolling Stone. Now that Rolling Stone's entire archive of covers has been made available online, I'm reminded that its covers were the main reason why I tended to give the magazine a wide berth, even when mag-buying became my runaway addiction. With hackneyed typography and a backward-looking selection of cover artists (Boz Scaggs, Linda Ronstadt and Carly Simon continuing to hold sway even as punk roared loudest), Rolling Stone's covers rarely aspired to be timely and therefore could never hope to be considered timelessly iconic. Apart, that is, from their obituary covers that invariably struck exactly the right note.
Likewise, some of NME's front page obituaries (Elvis, Lennon, Marvin Gaye) proved to be among its most striking and memorable. By the time of their iconic Kurt Cobain death issue, however, the golden age of NME covers was long gone. Some would argue that the baton was passed along to monthly magazines like Mojo. As eye-catching as some Mojo covers have been (New York Punk, Soul Riot, Nick Drake), the mag's dependency on retro acts means that it's never far from the comfort zone. When confronted with yet another homage to Beatles/Stones/Hendrix, am I alone in longing for the heady days when NME pushed unsigned bands out front, seducing the reader with exotic obscurities like Pop Group and Gang of Four? Or the days when it would take a rest from music altogether and suck us in with images of Pat Phoenix, Hitchcock and nuclear power stations?
These days, as I scour the shelves for a music magazine to read on the train, seeking out a cover that will grab me, every publication screams "buy me" but hardly ever persuasively. Has the art of the classic cover truly been lost forever? Or is it just me?
Meanwhile, please feel free to nominate your own favourites, past and present.

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Future Magazine

I like the originality this magazine. I believe i will have to do research into ideas about how this could work with my person on the front of the Vinyl. I do think you need the needle in the image otherwise it would not work. However could i make the image of my main article the needle? I do not think it will work but I do like the layout of this. I will look into it some more and do some more research.

Gaffa

I think that the abstractness of the microphones coming out of trees is interesting and inspiring i like the placement of the name of magazine, it stands out well and looks attractive.

DPS endless City

I really like the idea of the photo or graphic work working along side the title, it gives me ideas in which i could explore things. However i do not like the colours as they are dark but the key colour red stand out strongly here.

Wire magazine

I think this magazine the colours and everything work really well. The large amount of people isnt something i have in my mind that would work however the light and "happy" colours inspire me to do something bright. the use of tree's spring to me about woodlands and object within the woodland.

New York Look, 2

I think this monotone look is so effective and so creative, The blurred face creates a sense of curiosity which I think works very well and therefore would create to make someone to open the magazine. The image also works with the "catwalk" looks of the magazine. Again the font styles 4 and therefore there is a style template starting to flow here, the text's are also in the same places which creates the idenity of the magazine which would be what i'd do for my magazine.

DPS

I like this as I think it works with the picture. The colour scheme is clear and looks the neat this means that it would fit into my design ideas. I like idea that there isnt a lot of text on the page and the idea of telling a story through photos has come to my mind here as the images create such an impact.

UMag

The style U mag use i think is simular to ID with the simplicty and the impact the title has upon the reader is inspirational.