The design of a publication is what sells it to it’s audience. Gross (2015) said that “There are two important goals when designing a magazine cover; the first is to attract the potential buyer’s attention and the second is to express the content or theme of the magazine.” It all depends on the cover, the image, typography, overall design. So that is what I will be exploring in this essay. I have chosen to compare and analyse the free publications NME and Stylist. The two publications interested me because as they are both free, they do not need to promote their image in order to ‘sell’ their product. But instead purely base their design on how they want their publication to be portrayed in the public eye. These two magazine have separate …show more content…
NME tend to keep their recent covers fairly simple, often using plain backgrounds and either a full body or close up image of a celebrity on their cover, mostly musicians but quite often actors too. They pair this with their bright red, possibly white, bold branding at the top of the cover and a sub-heading simply stating the celebrity cover star’s name. This creates a very clean looking cover, which is attractive to the reader because they are not rushed around the cover jumping from busy headlines to the next. Stylist have a similar approach when it comes to their covers. The cover of Stylist tends to be filled with an image, often of celebrities or models but also with just images, such as food or places relevant to that edition (see figure six). These covers tend to have one heading on the page similar to NME, often stating a celebrity’s name or an article title that is within the magazine. The cover of Stylist tends to be relatively bright, often in pastel colours giving the whole publication a kitsch feel. The colour of the mast head also matches a colour within the image which as Bigman, A (2015) states, “In magazine cover design, common approaches are to either match or complement certain vivid areas of the photograph or illustration beneath,” is a common technique to making a cover look sleek and
Advertisements often employ many different methods of persuading a potential consumer. The vast majority of persuasive methods can be classified into three modes. These modes are ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos makes an appeal of character or personality. Pathos makes an appeal to the emotions. And logos appeals to reason or logic. This fascinating system of classification, first invented by Aristotle, remains valid even today. Let's explore how this system can be applied to a modern magazine advertisement.
...ent ground. the background is bright red and has large graphic circles of yellows, pinks, and blues. They seem to mimic the idea of a musical notes. It is composed of flat figural forms cut from vibrant paper. This was not the only album cover that Romare Bearden ever created. He also did another album cover for Wynton Marsalis called J Mood.
These visual representation are known as pin-ups and described as, “Prototypically blonde with large breasts, tiny waist, small buttocks, and long, slender legs, she is a specifically Caucasian archetype of erotic appeal” (Breazele 77). By only focusing on the female body in Esquire’s illustrations the magazine is taking away the idea that females have control of their body. Each woman featured in the magazine is pictured as described above, in doing so women are portrayed in an unrealistic sense and men expect real-life women to look like this skewed image of the female body. For this reason, women no longer feel confident in their body and feel the pressure of the male gaze to look like the images in magazines like Esquire. It was also said that these images were used to market to the straight-male consumer in order to reject any interest women might have in the magazine or any homosexual male. Esquire attempted to make all readers of their magazine think the same and this included making them all have the same idea of what made a female attractive. This meant that women would no longer see differences between each other as something positive, but instead all women would strive for the unrealistic perfection represented in Esquire’s visuals. Pin-ups become a staple of Esquire’s magazines because they truly showed the best features of a women all combined into one disproportionate sex
There is nothing better than music. With countless songs, artists, and genres of music in this world, there cannot be just the sound of music or singing. People want visuals to their favorite sounds as well. They love the music videos, album covers, posters, and magazines. Music Icons magazine pays tribute to very influential and popular bands of all time essentially. On the cover of this particular edition, “Pink Floyd” printed across the top in large, black letters with the subheadings: “The Story Behind Every Album” in red letters and “50 Year Salute to Rock’s Most Mysterious Band” below that in black letters. At the very top of the cover, the band’s most popular album’s covers are at the top in chronological order of when they were released. There is a white brick pattern background and along the bottom are the band’s four main members in black and white. This edition was printed in 2015 in the United Kingdom and the articles inside are not credited to one particular writer. The cover seems simple but it is still effective. Music Icons effectively reaches their target audience of Pink Floyd fanatics, along with people who might have heard of the band, but do not know anything about them through pathos, logos, and slight lack of
The cover is shades of blue and black with two pictures on it. The picture on the bottom is of a mountain and the top picture is of 2 hikers who are tethered together while climbing a mountain.
Some people think that if they could only change one aspect of their lives, it would be perfect. They do not realize that anything that is changed could come with unintended consequences. “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs and “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken both illustrate this theme. They demonstrate this by granting the main character three wishes, but with each wish that is granted, brings undesirable consequences. The main idea of this essay is to compare and contrast “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish.” Although the “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish” are both fantasies and have similar themes, they have different main characters, wishes, and resolutions.
...ce in society. And the effects of the ideals behind these magazines are all the more powerful because of their subtlety." Women walk away from these magazines with an empty feeling and feelings of many inadequacies and they really don't know exactly why. The subtle undermining of women's intelligence and cause strips away their sense of worth ever so slowly and leaves them feeling depressed and in search of something that really can't exist together. Growing old while staying young takes many years of complete and internal happiness not many years of collagen injections and the added stress of having to stay unattainably perfect. While some consider these journalists for women's magazines talented writers, I consider them horrendous displays of talent in which they sell out the naturally beautiful women of the world for a quick buck and a popular magazine.
"Tabloids and Propaganda, Are all of the tabloids true, or are they false? Or do they have some truth to them?" These questions ponder the minds of the readers of these pieces of journalism when they read them. They often wonder if they are truthful for there are many lawsuits that seem to say that they aren't. I tend to wonder myself as well. I constantly see the Supermarket tabloids at newsstands or at supermarkets themselves and I tend to wonder whether or not they are real. The cover itself throws me off though. Most of the time I see a famous couple with a headline for example saying "Brad and Gwyneth are together again...behind Jennifer's back!" Sometimes the story itself seems to unreal to be true however people still buy the magazine. Most of the time just for entertainment. The people want an inside glimpse into a star's life and this is one of the closest ways to find out. Maybe with my research I'll be able to find out whether or not the tabloids are real or just plain fake.
Have you ever looked through a magazine and found it to be really interesting? That is because you are part of its target audience. You are part of a group of people that the magazine is trying to appeal to. There is a reason Sports Illustrated is more of a man’s magazine and Family Circle is more of a woman’s magazine. The people that run that magazine put certain things in those magazines to attract their audience. More commonly, men are interested in sports and anything to do with sports. In Sports Illustrated, the reader would find sports, and that is it. The reader would not find an article titled “How working women balance their careers and home lives.” An article such as that would be found in a magazine like Family Circle, as it is targeted more towards women who have a family. For the purpose of this audience visual analysis, I will be discussing the October 8th, 2012 issue of People magazine. Looking at this issue and reading through the magazine, it is evident that the publishers do have a target audience in mind. This visual analysis will discuss who its target audience is and how the reader can tell. Also, the essay will discuss how the magazine makes the advertisements relevant to its audience.
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Comparing Two Newspaper Articles I'll be comparing the front page story of two newspapers. One is from a tabloid newspaper, as the other is from a broadsheet. I'll put across the. the diverse techniques that tabloids and broadsheets portray in their front page story. Newspaper media is designated to notify, and aim an.
Later down the line in the 1960s, graphic design became the norm for huge artist album covers. Popular culture was filled with images on albums and the first that come to mind being The Beatles With ‘The Beatles’, Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin' and the Rolling Stones' debut album each contained a cover photograph designed to further the musical artist's public
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Comparing two newspaper articles, one from a tabloid and one from a broadsheet will convey the different techniques that tabloids and broadsheets use to present stories. Media in general, aim to inform and interest the audience which consist of many different types. Diverse emotions and ideas are created by the media; foremost tabloids. Tabloids are papers like ‘The Sun’, ‘The Mirror’, ‘The Daily Mail’, ‘The Express’ and ‘The Star’. In contrast to these are broadsheets like ‘The Times’, ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Daily Telegraph’. Broadsheets are often known as the ‘quality press’ being more informing and formal in the manner they convey information and news stories.
ways as I have explained in this essay. It is a fact that The Mirror