Magazine Cover Inspiration

This type of magazine cover is where I am taking influence from. It is purposefully simple and different to conventional music magazines. It is intentionally lo-fi and stays away from normal expectations such as overcrowded text like stories and features. The photo is also extensively edited but still is the centre of the cover. The colours are also very de-saturated, giving it a slight retro, vintage feel.

This magazine is a much simpler design, it has the masthead in a very large, bold font at the top of the cover. The rest of the cover is designated to the image, which is very simplistic and doesn’t overcomplicate the style of the overall cover. There are no cover lines or story information that crowd the image.

Although this magazine cover gives off the impression of being complicated and intricate, this is only down to the image, it is well designed to make it look robotic and machine-like. This is down to the sharp design of the image and the mass of small, detailed text, as well as lots of lines with different opacities. The mast head is the darkest, boldest element of the cover.

This is an extremely simple magazine cover, it is a good example of how effective minimalism can be on a cover. If this were on a shelf it would instantly attract attention because of its sparseness and simple design, so it actually is more effective than a detailed, crowded magazine cover with lots of text and images.

Again, this is another example of a dramatically simple cover, it contains the essential element of the masthead and one element of design, being the digitless clockface. The one element that adds depth to the image is the texture of the background, the ruffled, bumpy texture of the royal red backdrop.