For the layout of my music magazine I looked at a few well known music magazines (Q, Rolling Stone, Billboard) to see how their front covers were laid out. One thing I noticed in all of them was that an image of the Singer/Band was in the centre of the page and the other articles written around the edge also there are no other photographs on the front page. Another feature that stood out to me was that the name of the magazine and artist is the biggest text on the page and there are a variety of fonts on the page.
As these magazines are well known and instantly recognisable, the name of the magazine is often slightly covered by the photograph, however as my magazine is new I think it is important that it is clear and in full veiw.
After researching into current front page layouts, I came up with my own to use for the final music magazine cover:
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