Magazine Cover Research 1 - Q Magazine

As part of the project, one of the tasks is to design a magazine advert, but as I have stated before I am extending that into a bigger magazien package and part of that is a magazine front cover featuring the band. So over the next 4 blogs I'll be looking at 4 different magazines and talk about what goes into their covers and what possible inspiration I can draw from them.

Q magazine covers all different types of genre and music and reviews pretty much all the latest music releases and features articles of all the latest musicians aswel as articles with veteran and classic musicians. Q's album covers are very simple in design, all there magazine have the basic layout of the magazines logo in the left hand top corner, with the main featured musician or band featured on the front cover standing in front of a white background (except for the odd expection like the U2 featured cover above), and feature lots of different colour text in the same font about what is featured in the issue. What I like about the Q covers are is that they are very simple and straight to the point, when you look at the cover you know whats going to beside and whats featured, its very straight to the point which I feel is what is needed for a magazine cover it just gets straight to the point, as well as the photos used for the front cover, they have been taken incredibly well, some front covers reaching fantatsic in terms of photography . However saying that at times the covers do come off as a bit blanned and boring, there isnt much in the way of vibrancy, it doesn't always grab your attention, the only way some people might pick it up in this case is if a band or musician they like is featured on the front, other than that, it just comes off as a little boring at times.