VIBE

                                                             

VIBE

As you can tell from the front cover, contents page and double page spread the first magazine I chose to analyse is a music based magazine. The genre of music that this magazine advertises is mainly Hip Hop and Rap, this magazine caught my eye as I it is promoting music genre that I do like.

The front cover is colourful with a 3 coloured scheme of pink, blue and a grey background, this shows its simplicity of the magazine but the celebrities picture makes it so powerful. The contents page has the same typography of the front covers showing the magazine’s consistency and makes it look more professional. It also has a picture of its featured celebrity, therefore if the front cover wasn’t enough to grab the reader’s attention then the contents page hopefully should. The picture of Kanye West is also in the Zed area, so when the readers are flipping through the pages Kanye’s pictures should be seen. The double page spread in any magazine is supposed to stand out; therefore the typography and colour scheme on these 2 pages are completely different. The main picture spreads across both of the pages with the body text starting with a drop cap. I like how the magazine was able to use the celebrity’s music title and merge it into the background as

The front cover has a colour scheme of hot pink, blue and black, this give the idea that VIBE magazine is for all ages, as well as all genres of music. The typography fonts of the front page are all in Sans-serif and bold capitals attracting more attention as the readers would think that it will be important. Double page spreads primary aim are to sell a feature, which should work together with the front cover and the contents page to represent art the pages are meant to flow together Since the double page spread are usually containing the magazine’s interview with a celebrity, the typeface are always Serif and bold. This makes the double page spread stage out and stay in the readers mind the most. The layout of VIBE’s magazine is simple with the text all connected to each other, without making the readers look all over the pages for the next paragraph. I found out that is this is a good technique as the readers aren’t disrupted during their reading causing them to change the page instead of finishing as well as the title.