Magazine Designs

After creating different templates for the front cover and contents I decided to design hand drawn sketches of what my front cover and contents page may look like to help me realize what works and what doesn't.

Front Cover #1 

This is my first magazine design, when I create the really thing my background more than likely won't be white but a cool blue tone or a grey colour. With this design I have followed the main conventions of a front cover by including a masthead and the headline in larger size font compared to the rest of the text. In this design it has a pull quote from the splash story as a running head. I have followed my chosen house style as I have kept with my chosen colour scheme. I think it looks good how my 'pop' colour ties a lot of the feature on this front cover together such as the headline, puff text and pull quote but it also makes the colour part of the colour scheme not just an extra colour. 

Front Cover #2

My second front cover is more simple and has less text and has more negative space. In this design the masthead is in the top left hand corner which means I have more space to fill because the masthead is smaller. The model will use mode of address to engage the audience more which can help increase the sales.

Contents page #1 

Contents page #2 

What have I learnt from creating that hand drawn designs? 
I have learnt that when I create my magazine I need to mess around with the size of the text to help fill up the negative/white space. It looks better without the running head but this may because I didn't draw it that neat but just looking at my design the pull quote look better in front of my model. The masthead looks better larger and when its spread across the whole of the top of the page.