My front cover draft

My front cover draft

In order to get a rough idea of how I'm going to create the layout for my magazine, i drew up a rough sketch to see if i would like my design. I went through a number of different ideas untill i came up with my final product.
After researching typical layouts of other magazines and the typical features included on the magazine I wanted to have the main image as the background picture to be the main focus and attract of my magazine.
On the left hand side i have a number of text boxes in which im going to have have an insight of headlines of what is going to be included in the magazine. I decided to show this list on the left side in order to keep it neat and easily readable.
At the top of the cover is the masthead of the magazine which is placed there as this is typic of a magazine to place this at the top. This is effective as its attracts the audience being clear and placed at the top but centred in the middle. Across the picture on the right hand side is the name of artist as well as a puff. I placed this on the left so it didnt cover up the centre of the picture and take away any of the focus from the image. At the bottom of the page is the barcode as its not important for the consumer and is a typical place for a bar code to be.
I think this is a successful layout design due to it being neat and easily readable with the main focus being an image.