Cover Design and Format

For the cover of our Culture magazine, my partner Juan and I created (drew out) what we wanted the specific format of our magazine to be. We decided on a masthead for our publication that will always remain consistent. The only thing that would ever change on the cover of our magazines is the cover photos on the different issues. Culture will obviously be written at the top of the cover in bold font, but we have not quite decided what font is right for our magazine yet. However, we have decided that on the bottom right side of our magazine cover,there will be a graphic of different colored hands, representing different races and ethnicities, reaching upwards. Juan and I will gather some of our friends to take this photo, that symbolizes unity and representation of all races, minorities especially. The cover page is an introduction to our creation, Culture, so Juan and I wanted to make sure that it has meaning and appeals to our target audience. As for our Table of Contents, we wanted to place an ad on the second page of that two page spread. Our ads will appeal to the certain race or ethnicity's culture that each issue is specifically pertaining to. Our two page spreads in our separate magazines will follow the same format, title in the upper top half of page one, with perhaps a short description of what is being discussed in the article. There will be a photo that represents the story being focused on the top half of page two, while the actual writing with appear on the bottom halves of both the right and left pages of the two page spread.




Sources:
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50 Design Techniques That Made These Magazine Covers Awesome [Epic Case Studies] – Learn. (2015, October 12). Retrieved March 10, 2018, from https://www.canva.com/learn/magazine-cover-design/