Research and planning blog tasks
1) Find at least five music magazine front covers (either current or former magazines as many have stopped their print editions) aimed at a similar target audience to your project (mainstream music audience) and research music magazine key conventions. For each one, pick out one design idea, convention or image/text style that you could use in your own print work - close up - bright colour scheme - centred photo 2) Find at least five double-page spread features from music magazines on Google images. How are they designed? How are text and images displayed? What design tricks can you borrow from your examples? The images take a significant amount of one side of the page, whether its is left aligned, right aligned, or centred. The double page spread of Eminem has 3 main colours - red white and black. The background of the page is also black which fits well with Eminem skin tone. 3) Find at least five magazine contents pages...