Contents Page planning

My last post on this blog was a slide-share presentation about my analysis of VIBE magazine. If you take a look at the presentation itself you will find that it includes a detailed analysis of the magazines TA and an issue of the front cover. However I did not include an analysis of the contents because I felt that showing some existing contents pages from VIBE will be more beneficial as this way I can explain what I like about them and why, rather than analysing aspects of it in a presentation. ANYWAY .... A contents page of a magazine is equally as important as the front cover and double page spread article featuring a particular artist...

Therefore I have done some research prior to the process of making my magazine contents page and here is what I have found: 

To the basics - I think that this contents page is productive, but I am personally not the biggest fan of the choice of photo on the cover. As being part of the TA of VIBE magazine myself, I feel as though I would not be as attracted to or find this contents page as appealing as other existing VIBE contents pages. I do like the way that the title stands out and is portrayed in a unique way (I actually adopted this technique myself) however I also think that the text could stand out and be slightly more appealing and clearer, My attention seems to be focusing heavily on the artist and the word 'CONTENTS' as opposed to the text in small print, where my attention should be - a contents page is different to a magazine front cover, because it is designed to bring TA attention to the t

ext as opposed to the typical person and title.