More design work in progress...

The front cover, contents page and double page spread which I'm still working on. Just photographs to be put into the magazine and also some changes need making to some of the text.

Further design work

I changed the background colour from black to white because the masthead along with the headings show up more. Images have got to be added to the magazine next; also finishing off the contents and interview pages.

The page designs (working process)

Editing font colour

I changed the font colour so that it meets the colour theme of my magazine...

Colour

I am going to use quite modern and trendy colours of which I have found have been used in many popular magazines.

I am keeping a simple use of colour through the magazine pages, the trends show that black, red and white are popular amoung the well circulated magazines, so I'm therefore using them along with orange. These colours aren't aimed at a particular audience for the magazine, these colours should generally appeal to both males and females alike.

The blue will add life to images by applying frames to the edges of the images.

Layouts

FRONT COVER

DPS (DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD)

CONTENTS PAGE

Readership Figures

I collected information about readership figures and circulation of magazines that are popular, the results show that Classic Rock, Kerrang, Q, Empire and Mojo are the highest circulated music magazines...

January - June 2008 Circulation (prior 6 months)

• Classic Rock 66,632 (67,399)
• Kerrang! 60,294 (76,937)
• Metal Hammer 48,540 (45,809)
• Mixmag 34,073 (35,817)
• Mojo 106,367 (106,218 )
• NME 56,284 (64,033)
• Q 113,174 (131,330)
• Rock Sound 22,527 (23,021)
• Terrorizer no figures (14,952)
• The Fly 105,212 (103,051)
• Uncut 86,925 (91,028 )
• Word 33,775 (33,217)

Data from...http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/09/readership-at-u.html

Empire is biggest selling magazine ever with 194,016. 
Q has monthly with a circulation of 100,172
Mojo has the highest selling stable monthly circulation 97, 722
Kerrang! Remains the UK’s best-selling music weekly at 43,253. 

Data from...http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/Press-Office/News/ABC-Circulation-Figures-January-June-2009/