Music Magazine contents page

Contents page draft 2 (plan)

 Here is an idea for the second draft of my contents page. The idea is based on a contents page design from NME magazine. The design uses images along with anchorage text to exploit popular articles that the reader may want to know about. I like this design as it explains the images underneath rather then in a more organised style, the reader can clearly see the news about the image this way. This design gives a unique view, so I have decided to create a contents page with a similar design layout to this NME contents page, I will adapt the design into my own magazine's style. Although I have decided to change much of my initial design, I aiming to keep its original style.

Music Magazine double page spread

Double page spread

Here is a first draft of my double page spread. I have made significant changes to my initial idea. Using MixMag's double page spread designs as inspiration, I have created a design which I think will suit my magazine. I have removed the geometric designs as I decided to arrange the images as followed, having two images on top and one large image on the bottom. I also displayed the name of the artist behind the larger image in its own authentic, creative design. The authentic artist's name displayed behind the larger image clearly revealing the topic of the article, the combination of the main image and heading behind attracts the reader, promoting the subject. The next part of the double page spread is based on the Lady Gaga and Tinie Tempah article designs. Reading through the Tinie Tempah article, I have based my own on a similar topic, giving a masthead that grabs the readers attention straight away along with the anchorage text underneath. Seeing the Lady Gaga interview as well, I decided to display a bright red capital I behind the text. I have done this to clearly show who the text is about, but the colour of the letter keeps the magazine's authenticity along with highlighting the name of the artist in the anchorage text
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Music Magazine double page spread

Inspiration

Here is a double page spread article from an issue of MixMag music magazine. What appealed to me so much was the Font designs of the text. How the anchorage text is displayed in a large, simple, smart design. The design grabs the readers attention, and once read, they become intrigued to read more about the story. Reading through the story and observing the design, I think that this double page spread will be a ideal role model for designing and writing out my own article on my fictional artist.

Music Magazine double page spread

Double page spread development

Here is my double page spread design with the images added. I decided to just place the images over the shapes, this gives a 3D effect. I've added a background effect but for some reason it hasnt come through the image when uploading it. I think these images will work well in the article. I displayed the name of the artist how it would originally be displayed if it were real. I think these images will give the ideal effect and attraction to design for readers for a dance/ house music genre magazine. The grey lines in the center represent the margins.

Musin Magazine double page spread

Images

 Here are the original and altered images I will be using for my double page spread. Using iPhoto and Preview software on the mac, these images have been altered so that they can be suitable for my double page spread. The first three of these images will be used in the geometric shapes and the fourth will be used in the text space. As it is an article I was looking for images that would just give an original vibe from the artist.

Music Magazine double page spread

Double page spread plan

Here is my plan for my double page spread design. It is inspired between two other designs, the lady gaga and geometric designs in my last post. The images on the left page will be displayed in geometric shapes to give a bright, distinguished design pattern. On the right page, the text will be displayed either around or in front of the image that will be displayed there, this is to try an give a more appealing design towards the music genre. The images of the article this will be based on is displayed on the left page before the text so readers can clearly and identify what or who it is about, this allows them to acknowledge the topic and decide whether to look through the article.

Music Magazine double page spread

Inspiration & Idea

Here are some double page spread designs that I've chosen for inspiration, and also my first initial design of my double page spread. These design don't necessarily come from dance/house music magazines, but they resemble similar characteristics that I'm looking for in my own music magazine of my chosen genre. The reason for the first design is, I like how the heading is displayed above the text, it clearly shows the topic of the text. Also, I am intrigued by the design of the giant red 'L'. It is faded so that the text can be clearly seen and displayed on top of the text, it symbolises the information on the artist, I am debating whether to use this for my own design as I think it will stand out and catch the readers eye. The reason for the second design is, the idea of inserting the images into geometric shapes fascinated me, I think that it gives a broad vivid design. I am also thinking of displaying an image in the text area and positioning the text around the image.

Music Magazine contents page

Contents Page

Here is a concluded design from my initial idea. I have slightly changed the masthead but keeping its original design. The images used have also been spaced out so that they can but easily seen. Looking through contents page designs of MixMag, most use a similar design, they use lines to distinguish the margin and information at the bottom of the page where the website and issue is kept. I used graphic designs to show off the margin, headings, page numbers of the text, and seperated the information into 'features' and 'articles' in order to create a lively design for the page to boldly show off the content. The magazne webiste below allows readers to find the online copy of the issue. The masthead is in Gill sans MT headings font, it gives a simple design and combined with the underlining, grey colour, and letter positioning, it has a stylish, sophisticated, unique style. By only mentioning particular content of the magazine intrigues the reader, making them attracted to the contents as it must be important. By mentioning well known events and artists, readers will become attracted to the magazine as to what information it may contain about who or the events they know of.

Music Magazine contents page

Images

 Here are the images I intend on using for my contents page. I think they will be suitable for presenting the stories I have made. Using iPhoto, I will crop each photo so they are in a portrait view rather then landscape, this will enable them to fit onto the page. Looking at images professional magazines have used, I think that these images will be ideal as they give a bright, vivid view  towards the contents of the magazine. The main image will be the first one, it will be the largest as it is ideal to attract readers attention towards a dance and house music magazine.

Music Magazine contents page

Contents page plan

Here is a plan for my magazine's contents page. The plan is inspired by a contents page design from an issue of MixMag magazine. The plan has a organised, basic layout. Text is kept to the left whilst the images are kept to the right, the largest image is one of the top stories with along with other images displayed underneath. The layout design should show clearly the contents of the magazine. There will be various fonts for each different pats of the text, this is to give a true dance/house music magazine look as they need to give plenty of design that gives the wild, spontaneous, explosion that is the music's genre.

Music Magazine contents page

Contents page idea

Here is the base idea for my magazine's contents page. The images I will be using have been taken myself, the line will not be on the finished design, it represents the edge's of the images I will use. I have decided to change my design idea from my initial design to this, it has been inspired from a previous design layout idea from an issue of MixMag. The design for the masthead of the page came from the magazine idea below. It is a contents page design from an issue of VIBE magazine. Using this design, I have altered it to suit my own magazine as I think it gives the ideal font design for a professional dance and house music magazine. I will also be arranging my sub-headings in an orderly fashion just as the contents page below has done. I will be sticking to my colour scheme of red, white, black, and grey. I have displayed the masthead in the left- third and i think with its unique design font, it will attract readers.

Music Magazine contents page

Contents page inspiration

Here is a contents page design from one of MixMags magazines. I am intrigues by the proportion of size of the images, but I am interested in using it for my own magazine. I like the organised layout of the page, how the text is to one side and images to another. I am also interested in organising my contents page into sections as MixMag has done with theres, how it has fashion and then tunes etc. The design is very appealing to me, I am seriously considering using a similar design for my own music magazine contents page.

Music magazine Contents page

Contents page design

Here is the basic design of my contents page for my magazine. I have decided to base my design scheme of that of MixMags as I am fond of the design as I think it best represents a dance music magazine. In the alternating grey and white right angle, I intend on using for my sub-headings. I think that using the right angle design will attract readers to its simple geometric pattern. The other half of the page is where i intend on keeping my images. The design is different from my other design layout plans, but  I am thinking of changing it to one of them if it does not prove successful. I am also considering maybe changing the layout for the text and images for this design, perhaps having the images in the right angle and the text beneath the heading.