Music Magazine Contents Font Research

As seen from my research into contents pages, we can see that a popular design idea in Electronic music magazines is having a header which is written in Bold San-serif font in block capitals, with a different San-serif font as the main body of writing.


I have decided to follow this trend in my own magazine, using a previously used font as the Bold font, which will be the Lemon/Milk font. However I needed to find another font to use for the main body of text, which I will find out here.

Music Magazine Contents Research

‘Q’ Magazine generally features a large image on the right hand side of the page, with an elongated area for text along the left of the page. There is a consistent theme of a header featuring the name of the magazine, along with the word ‘contents’ in bold. Other minor details such as the issue number and date of publication are also present, which I could incorporate into my own magazine. The font used in the design is fairly simple, although the page layout is quite full on, with little space left, and has a somewhat cramped feel to it, which I would like to avoid in my own design.

However I would like to use the combination of dark grey and white colours, which fit very well with my current design for my cover, and also with the modern theme of electronic music.

This contents page has many of the same design traits as the previous one, with the large image on the right and text on the left.  However again, feels quite cramped. I do however like the large header.

Again, I also like the use of modern colours (grey, red and white)
I like the combination of large and small text, which draws in the readers eye and then supplies them with information on what the particular story is about. 

This design is from ‘Electronic Sound’ which focuses completely on electronic music, which is the genre that I am focusing my own design on.

As such, the design is highly relevant to the style that I will be making, and I really like the simplistic yet stylish and modern feel this design has. It combines the use of a lot of images with frequent but small sub headings with a brief description of each topic. 

This is also from Electronic Sound, however uses a lot more colour while maintaining the modern and stylish feel. I very much like the top half of the design, with a large image covering the width of the page, along with a colourful box with the magazines title and ‘what’s inside’

The boxes below with the subheadings follow the same sort of design as the previous contents page I looked at, with each subheading featuring an image with a brief description.
This layout is much more spread out than the first 2, which I would like to do in my own contents page as I feel that a more spacious design looks better than a cramped one.
The large image with a writing overlay is a nice feature, which looks good and also does its job as a header.
The boxes below have a colour 

Music Magazine Front Cover Design (With Final Image)

Music Magazine Front Cover Image Editing Process

Step 1 - Original Image

Step 2 - Blemish Removal With 'Spot Removal Tool'

Step 3 - Rough Cut Out With Eraser Tool

Step 4 - Darkening Of T-Shirt With 'Burn Tool'

Step 5 - More Accurate Cut Out With Eraser (Smaller Brush)

Step 6 - Implement Background

Music Magazine 2nd Photo Shoot

Before taking this set of images, I consulted my clothing research which gave a clear trend towards casual clothing such as t-shirts and vest tops. All of the Electronic Music magazine covers that I research portrayed a male model with the focus on the upper half of the body, from around the chest upwards. And due to the style in which I presented the image (a closely cropped cut out of the model with no background) I did not focus on taking portrait images, which is why all the images shown are landscape.

Music Magazine Front Cover Design (Without Final Image)

This Is the final design for the music magazine's front cover, 

without the final image, which needs to be retaken.