What I have learnt from my research

From researching various existing magazines I have settled on my draft ideas for my three pages. From the style I have chosen to stick with 'indie-alternative-rock-pop', I hope that my magazine could sit alongside Dazed & Confused, NME, and The Rolling Stone. I have taken inspiration from numerous existing magazines from music magazines to fashion magazines to men's magazines; this shows just how broad magazines look and how music magazines do not have to have instruments or a stage on them to show that they belong in the music category.

I have shown images of particularly inspiring magazine covers in other posts, but these are a few which translate particularly well to my design ideas: