Magazine Covers

 A magazines cover is perhaps the most important part of the
magazine. This is because it is what the customer first sees
when in the shop. Magazine companies strive to make their
covers different and stand out in comparison to the competition.
Covers are carefully designed to suit the genre they represent.





This issue of NME has chosen a red and yellow colour scheme.
This is good for two reasons. Red and yellow are attractive
colours for the reader to see. Also red and yellow connote
danger which suits their all round rock genre.
NME have chosen a simplistic yet chaotic approach. There is text everywhere yet the picture is very clear and basic.






This is an average magazine cover






Q go with a very simplistic red white and black colour scheme. Red and white is traditional to the Q logo. Black and white are used to connote how clean and tidy the magazine is.
Whereas the black clothes wore by the artist signifies how dark he is as a character.




This is a Good magazine cover

Mojo usually go with a simple black and white look which makes it clean. Mojo are usually simplistic in their covers, however this one shows more sophistication by the addition of lots of text. This issue goes with a colour scheme of black, white, orange and pink for Paul Weller.
Mojo also usually have a free CD with most of their magazines.
This issue is no exception.




This is a good magazine cover