Magazine Layouts (Research Into Similar Products)

Life in the Big City

The Quizzers

Free at last

Here are a few well designed magazine layouts, they are all unique in their own way and i believe looking at how magazines differ in layout; i can create my own unique touch to 'Talk Of The Town'.

Life In The City- This magazine appears to be a regional magazine of Birmingham also, hence the picture in the background of landscapes within the city. The thing i admire about this layout is how the picture fills the middle of both pages; spreading across the centre rather than being pushed to a corner. The background in the picture is yellow, the same yellow tone used as the double page spreads header; this shows you a relationship between the two conventions because as you first look the page the first two things you notice is the heading and then the picture. It guides you across the page also because the first thing you will see is 'Life in the Big City' followed a picture of the city which shows you what city the title is referring to.

The Quizzers- The magazine featuring this page has gone creative by putting a paragraph inside the giant Q which is part of the page-heading, because the heading is called the quizzers; i guess that's why there is a picture of people in a thinking pose. The background of this magazine is plain white and there is also numerous paragraphs compared to 'Life in the city'. This shows that 'The Quizzers' is for a more serious reader or older age group because they don't need to add colour and creative pictures to attract their readers. 

Free At Last- In terms of the plain white background 'The Quizzers' is similar to 'Free at last', 'Free at Last' go a bit more further though as the heading takes up a lot of space on the page, with text boxes covering pieces of the letters a creative outlook has been bought in.