(some of the pictures of the magazines and their pages are form recent magazines)
Today I am going to talk about Company Magazine and the things I found interesting and would like to use the ideas for our group magazine.
November 2012 Issue of Company Magazine
FRONT COVER
I really like the cover of Company's November 2012 issue. It might come across as a very busy front cover but in actual fact, its quite organised, you have the magazine title at the top, the bar code at the bottom right, and the woman's name who features on the front cover at the top right. I've noticed when buying or flipping through the magazine at the shops, that the person who features on each issue cover, has their name written always at the top right side of the magazine. I think that this consistency is good because it it makes it easier for the reader to locate, because they know that it's always going to be there.
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This is a similar typeface to the Company one |

These pages come from a September 2012 issue of Company magazine. I really like this editorial because it's so pretty and well laid out. On one side you have the title 'Rising Star: Everyone's Cup Of Tea' with the introductory sub-heading. I like how the paragraph of the interview starts with a large capital S in a big, bold, black typeface. This immediately catches your eye to the story. I also like the fact when the interviewer asks Lucy Rose a question, it's highlighted in a sea green colour (it matches with the nail varnish at the opposite page). Another think I like is that in the title 'Everyone's Cup Of Tea', the background colour is in a light brown shade like the ones in the next page, Company used the colours of the photoshoot of Lucy (orange hair, reddish background setting etc) to create this effect. In the next page, I like how they used make-up to highlight the clothes and the sofa colour of the photoshoot. It's colour coordinated and organised. I think that the 'Get Lucy Rose's Look' with the music playlist type arrows (this is clever because Lucy's a singer-songwriter), again this is set against a black background and is written in capital letters.