Hello again! I’m so happy to tell you about some tips I’ve learned on how to design effective magazines. Because I already have my genre and target audience, I wanted to start researching on how to design my magazine. I came upon an article called, “10 Tips for Designing High-Impact Magazines” in which offered me tips on how to ‘breath life’ into magazines. The first thing that I took from this article was the ABC rule, in which A stands for A-heading,and B and C stands for sub-headings. Having already learned the importance of a heading, sub-heading, and cover lines in class, the ABC rule is a quick and easy way to remember this. The article also explained that to achieve a simple and balanced layout for a fitness magazine, it needs to have a strong heading, simple black-and-white photography, and typography to interact with the images.
The next few tips further state that having simple bold colors could be a great way to bring the design of the magazine together. The article also mentioned was to include a digital appearance to the content pages. This had interested me from the lesson on magazines in my class. Supposedly, this adds a more exciting and interactive way to engage the audience.
I also seemed to focus on Tip #9, in which stated that having a thematic design creates a more professional magazine. This means that my magazine should include strong themed elements that are incorporated from cover to cover. Because I can only complete a few pages of my magazine, I would want to include a theme that will be continuous throughout the pages in order to achieve that cohesiveness. Here the article gave us a checklist to make sure these elements are consistent: 
Nevertheless, this article definitely gave me ideas and helped me start to think of some cover images, titles, and fonts for my magazine. Next time I will show you a rough draft of my magazine cover and the different themes I would want to include.
Source:
Fussell, G. (2016, March 9). 10 Tips for Designing High-Impact Magazines. Retrieved March 11, 2017, from https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/10-tips-for-designing-high-impact-magazines--cms-25956
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