Initial Student Magazine Design Ideas: Front Cover

FRONT COVER DESIGN IDEAS

The aim of this blog is to show to design process of creating a student magazine cover and contents page. The target audience of the magazine will be college students, so generally people in their late teens. The language used shall be informal and slight personal, for example saying you and us.

Front Cover

Masthead

• Bold letters
• slightly curved font
• black or white.
• behind person in central image

Magazine name

Relevant to student life/college. Energetic.

• Excel
• Battery
• Animated
• Moxie

These might work at target audience and they all relate to being energetic and are positive. I intend to use a bold, eye-catching font.

Central Image

For my central image I would like to have a group of three people, the one in the middle looking at camera and two slightly below and behind the first, one each side, looking off to the side, as shown in sketch below:

Splash

A splash is the main article in the magazine, so it will have to be something interesting. 

some ideas are:

• You can still have a social life and do your homework, we tell you how.
• We list the top 5 places in Ludlow to get coffee before college.
• Interview with Stacey Thomas on her first month at college.

Cover-lines

Cover-lines give small excerpts from other articles in the magazine.

Some of my Ideas for cover-lines are:

• The best and cheapest places to buy college supplies.
• How to best use you free time for work.

Colours

For my magazine I will use the following colours: Black, White and a Dark Red, these colours allow for a high contrast meaning that my target audience would be more likely to notice them, these colours are also unisex, so they will not stop some people buying it because they are worried it will affect there image.