Posted on by Faye Tikic

Existing product: Research

To fulful potential in design and aesthetic, I have been referring to a range of relevant magazines. Luckily, I have been collecting: Art Quartlery, Psychologies and Leisure Painter magazines for a few years now so I have an available mass of research to dive into. will disect the elements and themes of the piece while collecting other example products for further development. Below I have scanned in some reference magazines to give an idea of what I’m looking at as demonstration.

Example Magazines

I have been using these front covers as an example for composition and aesthetic, I have noticed in all issues, they display the article titles under the top magazine title, containing information together allowing the majority of space to be a visually stimulating and in theme with the magazine itself.

FRONT COVERS OF ART QUARTERLY

ARTICLES

Psychologies & Leisure Painter

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I have been using this magazine to understand how to target an audience without art, using the front cover as an example of young audience, perhaps using a celebrity on each issue to appeal to the viewers? I have noticed a range of rhetorical questions, pehaps this directly speaks to the audience? I will explore these options in later development.
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I have been using this magazine as an example for interactive exercises, displaying demonstrations of painting and techniques to inspire the viewer to paint along, I feel this could be intergrated into my magazine, maybe in a way the viewer can draw and write within the book.

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