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The Typography of the masthead

and text are consistent throughout

the magazine along with the

masthead here. The serif font

shows that it is a formal magazine

and aimed at the adult market.

Also it creates an established feel

with the magazine.

The house style of Q magazine is very simple with lots of red, white, blacks

and greys. This lets people identify with the magazine as even without the Q

masthead in the top corner you can easily identify that it is Q. This is so that

people can get a relationship with the magazine as if they walked into a shop

and they could just look up and see it instantly on the shelf. It is laid out in a

very sophisticated way that caters to the audience it is aiming for, unlike

Kerrang with its audience of young men so they have a very hectic magazine

just like a young person’s life.

Q magazine tends to go into brief

detail with its articles on the cover

page devoting one or two

sentences to each article. Whereas

in magazines such as Kerrang they

only write the title of that story or

the artist it is about for example

‘Kings Of Leon’

The magazine shows off the Q awards and then a small

selection of some of the winners of the awards. This is to

let people see what they have voted for in something

that they enjoy to read. This will also give a brief

description about what the award is. Also shows us a

little segment of one of the reviews with makes people

want to read on with the article and let people enjoy the

magazine for what it is.

On this magazine the main image of the magazine is

very dominant similar to other magazines to show that

it is the main focus of this issue of the magazine. It

shows Take That on their comeback tour with Robbie

Williams all having fun and getting along after all these

years and shows how these men can still be childish. It

also lets people think about what the article is going to

be about.

There have been lots of good photos used on this content and they have

been used to show the other pages in the magazine to let people know what

is on the pages inside the magazine. Some of the photos use direct mode of

address as some of the pictures has the people looking straight into the

camera. Whereas most of the picture have been taken from the magazine so

they don’t use this technique. The contents use the Guttenberg design

principle as the first thing you look at is the number 48 and then take that

and work your way down the page.