Work Done, my final cover draft #1

Cover page reflection

After having finished my first cover draft, I have been to some of my friends, parents and cousins to ask them for some feedback for my cover page and these are some of my questions:

As my aunt works in the magazine industry, I asked her to give me some professional feedback on how my magazine looks right now.

How do you think my cover page looks?                I think it looks unprofessional, lacks beauty.

Then how could I improve it?     Okay, starting off with your skyline, it looks too abstract compared to your context, you should get rid of the filtering effects and make it look normal, strait text, a font like your lines would be perfect. The second thing you should change is the Free! 10 CDs; that is just horribly made especially the number 10 where you added the effects, maybe you should just delete it and also another thing, your selling your magazines for profit, I find giving out 10 CDs will make your company bankrupt , and even most of my magazines don’t provide free things with it. The next thing is your context, I like your grey lines but you have to make sure that they don’t contain any repetition because your audience would just look at it as if your magazine has no other interesting topics; it’s all about variety son.

Then does my image look good?                               Well as far as I am concerned I like your image and the way you took it because it goes really well with context, you purposely left the right side a blank space for the image, this means you have thought clearly about the fact that text will be on there. But you could make the your title look larger or just make it in front because your magazine is still not a popular, there’s no brand image yet so just make it clear for now, or move it up and make your skyline smaller. As for the left column, get rid of it, it look totally horrible because your use of fonts is too inconsistent, even professional magazines only have a few fonts, let’s use vogue as an example, vogue uses Didot mostly for main text in the magazine, you should make use of similar or just stick to a few.

Then can you just list the things I need to improve on?

Well firstly your skyline, both the colour and size, next is your Free CDs context and your repetition of Jimmy page should be out there, change your whole left column.