I have fell in love with this Birmingham regional magazine I have found on Issuu!
It's called SCENE BIRMINGHAM.
I think it looks so distinctive and eye catching, I like the way they have used a contrast of black and white and even blue. The colours work really well together. These are colours I may include together in my own magazine as I think that they really compliment each other. Using more than one image on the front page in a sort of collage form is not something I have seen much of before. I think this looks great! It makes the magazine seem as though it will feature lots of different topics, ranging from beauty, to art, to sight seeing. And these are all elements of Birmingham I know students would like to be shed some light on to. The photography is beautifully clear and this makes the magazine look very professional. I like the way the most important image (alerting the reader it's a Birmingham magazine) is the largest image on the page. I've noticed the way this magazine, even though it's so different and dynamic, sticks to the usual conventions of a regional magazine - it includes a date line and price. The only thing I would add to this magazine is probably some anchorage text to make it have a clear magazine layout format and to include a bar code.
I also like how the contents page seems full and buzzing! Also, the way the colours have been carried through from the front page creates a great level of symbiosis and I think the two page layout is effective because it shows that the magazine is jam packed full of information. The way the same text has been used looks very professional. In the same way the same layout of the images is fantastic, it's different and quite inspirational. I will definitely take this into account for my own magazine. The use of page numbers on top of the pictures provides a high level of coherence for the target audience showing that the editor has really thought about how to make their magazine easily accessible.
I am going to use this magazine to inspire me for my own work!
Here is the magazine:
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