Influences For My Magazine

My inspiration has come from various cultures and magazines, but only a few have really inspired me for my magazine. The magazines that have influenced mine are esquire and complex. The reasons why they both have influcned my magazine are because of the variety of mid-shots and long-shots that they use on their front covers. This has influenced my front cover to contain a mid-shot / long-shot for the front of my cover. Complex have also gave me a lot of inspiration, as this is what my magazine is based on (Fashion and Hip-Hop influences). And that fact that they use photoshop skills to create effects to their front cover. Esquire have mainly influenced me with the mid shots - long shots while i prefer the complex layout and creativity. Here is some front covers which have influenced my magazine cover.



For this magazine, i like how the use of Photoshop is used to create the effects. This is what i'm looking at doing for my front cover of my magazine as it is more eye catching to the audience. I also like how sketches of cartoons are added to the magazine. I may take this and create my own cartoons and scan them onto Photoshop and edit them for my magazine.

With this magazine from Complex, i like how minimal the cover lines are but still effective and let the customer want to buy the magazine to read more. I aim to do this with my magazine.

With this magazine, i like how they used a mid-shot for the photo. This will influence me to take a mid-shot photo for my magazine front cover, like this one.