Music magazine contents page
To do my contents page I looked for inspiration in music magazines of a similar genre, such as NME and Kerrang. I chose to take elements of their design and incorporate it into mine.
For this first one I tried to do something that is close to what NME had with the way it is laid out. I ran into issues of running out of content for my magazine so I redesigned my contents page to be able to have larger text on it to make it more full. I kept the color scheme the same for the contents page as well as I wanted to have a uniform look for this to have a magazine style to keep to, such as many popular magazines have. Although they do not always stick to the same colors, NME changes the colors around on most of the cover page.
The flat plan on the left is of the second version.
For this first one I tried to do something that is close to what NME had with the way it is laid out. I ran into issues of running out of content for my magazine so I redesigned my contents page to be able to have larger text on it to make it more full. I kept the color scheme the same for the contents page as well as I wanted to have a uniform look for this to have a magazine style to keep to, such as many popular magazines have. Although they do not always stick to the same colors, NME changes the colors around on most of the cover page.
The flat plan on the left is of the second version.
For my second version I made the text larger and I tried to make a few more changes. I cut the text in half and inverted the color of it to make this far more unique and interesting. I took inspiration from the NME contents page I looked at earlier and had a small overview of the article on the picture of related article.
This contents page was influenced by ideas and design styles from many contents pages of similar and different types of magazines that I looked at. I was mostly influenced by NME and their use of many photos in some issues to illustrate the article, I chose to use that as I wanted a magazine that is not a wall of text but rather a more interesting magazine. The use of a "Meet the team" article was included to make the readers feel that this is a more personal smaller magazine and not just a way to make money, this is something that is used by smaller companies a lot as it shows that the customer is valued. If I were to do this again I would hope to be able to get in more content to include in the contents page as this looks almost empty compared to other magazines.