Georgiana Angus

Q's contents page is something that I want to take a lot of inspiration from. It has a lot going on, but not so much that it is distracting. It has all the special feature and regulars that the reader would need to find without being cluttered, and thus allows you to find what you would like to see quickly and easily. This I feel is a lot better than having a minimalist contents page as, despite the fact that it would look nice, does not serve the function of a contents.

 

Q's main colour is red and white, and this is present in the magazine contents. It has a red border and red lines to highlight the different articles. This may be because red is a bright colour and draws the eye, so having red under the special features would draw the eye of the reader to articles and hopefully make them more interested in the magazine and therefore buy it. Red also brings text forward and highlights the information well to make it standout to the reader. Red is also know to stimulate the viewer to make quick decisions, hence why in advertisements the "BUY NOW" and "GET IT TODAY" are usually in red to stimulate the viewer into being rash and buying the product. They could be using the red to stimulate the reader into buying it in a quick decision or to look through the magazine for the articles and then interesting them into buying them.

 

While most of the important information is in the text. The images play an important role for the magazine. They have laid out really interesting images that catches the readers attention and strategically placed the page number on the image so you can find what is related to the image quickly without flicking through.