sixth form magazine cover

Creating a cover for a fake sixth form magazine made me understand how difficult is taking an image and putting some words on it.
The choice of the image, its quality,size are really important, but even if you spotted the right image and you got the right tools it takes ability to take it with the right light and at the right angle.
After having an imagre ready you have to communicate what the image doesn't say on its own by writing on it.
I spent hours in deciding the colour, the font, the size and the position of.. what? 20 words!
It is probably because I don't have any experience, but I bet professionals spend more time than me every time they have to make a product because it has to be a 100 times better than mine; it has to attract and most important to sell
I will sure try to make a better job on my next task with my few new skills  (the music magazine) but the main thing is that now I will look at front covers in a different way.

Music magazine deconstruction

This is the front cover of XL, an Italian music magazine produced by the newspaper "la Repubblica"
Target audience: young adults and adults.
Even though the magazine has evolved since the first time it came out, it has always maintained the same scheme in the magazine front cover.
The name of the magazine has always been at the top left corner in the same size and font the only thing that changes is the colour.
On the top it doesn't have a proper and regular masthead, but it is just a space used to show tertiary news and features of the magazine.
The left side third is quite typical and it is used for secondary news and exclusives of the magazine.
The most important part of the magazine is the central image and the main article.
In this particular issue it has been decided to leave most of the space of the cover to a beautiful, strong and evocative picture.
That's probably for twpo reasons: 1) the picture is technically and artistically spectacular and well made. 2) This image was with other colours the front cover of the album "London Calling" and it was proved to work with it. They knew this would have attracted people from the previous genereation because they recognized it; at the mean time because it had attracted teenagers to buy the album then, they were sure to attract new people now.

NewSixth

1st Attempt to create a decent Sixth form Magazine.