Rolling Stone Front Cover Ananlysis

Rolling Stone Magazine Analysis:

This particular front cover is interesting, as despite it featuring an incredibly large main image, there is still a fair amount of content surrounding it on either side allowing for all of the features to be shown off on the front cover, therefore expand the musical demographic, and helping to create wider appeal to the target audience.

When creating my magazine, I may use the layout of this front cover as inspiration as I intend to use a close up shot as my main image, that covers a large amount of the page. Also, I may use less standard shapes and more decorative borders to allow for any important information or features within the magazine to stand out on the front cover. The design of these shapes will hold connotations of the genre of the artist that is being shown, to appeal to members of my target audience that belong to a more confined and niche market, however I am still undecided on the specifics of these aspects of the page design.