This shows my first design for the front cover of my music magazine called ‘Chart!’ I used the same font for the cover line as I did the masthead on this design. I decided that this looked too much the same and I needed to break up the front cover by including a different font.

This shows another design for my ‘Chart!’ music magazine front cover.I chose to use a different font on this front cover, although sticking to the same colour scheme.I added a drop shadow to the font to make it stand out more from the front cover too. On this I have also added a black box along the bottom with white text to add a little more visual interest to the front cover.I chose to keep the white around the barcode because I feel it stands out more and looks a lot better.

On this front cover design I decided to flip the photo horizontally so that the model was on the left hand third so that when the magazines are on shop shelves the model is visible. I also decided that on the previous design the top right hand corner looked a little blank and bare so on this design I decided to move the ‘plus’ section to the top right hand corner to fill the space a little.

On this design I decided to add another cover line “The best of 2011, a playlist of our favourite songs”I aligned this using the grid and formatted a right hand alignment to the words. As I was unsure of where to place this cover line I asked for different opinions from different people asking which one they preferred and which was their favourite. I then decided I didn’t like this arrangement of these cover lines.

This is another front cover design. On this one I decided to align the cover line ‘The best of 2011, a playlist of our favourite songs’ to the right hand side of the page and decided this looks a lot more structured, a lot neater and much more professional.

This is my final front cover design for my music magazine ‘Chart!’ On this I have moved the masthead very slightly to create an invisible border all the way around the edge of the magazine. This makes the magazine front cover look much more professional. I have also moved all the cover lines on the left hand side down slightly to make the models face more visible.

The screenshot to the left shows the barcode which is on the right hand corner of the front cover of my ‘Chart!’ music magazine. I created this barcode on an online barcode generator and then used the Photoshop text tool to add the issue number and price. I aligned these to the right hand side of the barcode for a more professional feel.