I think that NME really wants to emphasizeitself as a music magazine that can appealto young people just being introduced tovarious music scenes, and older people who are die-hard music fans, this is because the main photo in this contents page is one of a legendary music venue, The Astoria, which will attract visually orientated younger readers to it out of interest, and older readers who NME emphasize with by calling it “one of the world’s greatest music venues” and using a “photo tribute” to commemorate it. Also, I think they are aware of why certain people read NME, so are using graphical features and layout to appeal to them all and attract them to articles they would be interested in, such as people who attend live concerts “The UK’s No 1 Gig Guide”, people who want to learn about new bands with the “Radar” section, and people who want to know NME’s opinion on new releases with the “Reviews” section. Another thing I like about NME, is that instead of putting the advertisement for NME Subscriptions on the front, they want to appeal to dedicated readers so they place it in a bold black box on the contents page, leaving more space on the front cover for pull quotes or cover lines. Also, when it comes to colour, I like NME’s consistent house style which means almost everything on the contents page is in red, white and black, the same colour as the masthead on the front cover. As well as this, the layout which puts everything in columns makes everything less cluttered and therefore easier to read.

I like this contents page for Analogue magazine, which is a magazine I came across when researching on Issuu.The colour scheme, layout and graphics are very inspiring, it gives the magazine and arty, abstract, maybe even eccentric feel without being too complicated or too difficult to read. I think this contents page represents Analogue magazine as being different to more commercials publications such as Kerrang and NME and I like this.Their isn’t a lot of information presented by the magazine, so I think they make up for it by arranging it in a good way and including the tree border which not only attracts attention, but takes up space. The white font stands out against the teal/blue background and the layout and colour for an otherwise quite minimalistic looking contents page still looks visually appealing and can attract attention.However, one criticism I can find of this magazine, is that it doesn’t really represent what kind of music this magazine focuses on.

This contents page is a horizontal contents page from an issue of Disorder magazine, one I came across whilst doing research and scanned into a computer, what I find innovative about the magazine is that I have never seen a horizontal one before presented in such a fashion, and that it looks edgy and abstract whilst retaining a clean, futuristic, modern style, it has an innovative key for readers to know what kind of article which page is, such as music, style, cinema. I think the many colours of the assorted photos on the article work well with the white background without being too cluttered. I would very much like for my music magazine to be horizontal but for it to be more edgy looking, however, there is not really a main article for me to be attracted to, and it is not very clear what sort of magazine people would think Disorder was if they had not read it before.