The document describes the design elements of Q magazine, an indie music magazine. It notes that the target audience is mature music lovers but is purchased by people of all ages. The cover features a large close-up image of Florence from Florence and the Machine that uses the colors blue and red to coordinate with her appearance. The magazine uses bright fonts and colors to encourage readers to purchase it and the logo is always found in the top left corner.

1. Paige Ward

4. The target audience of Q
magazine is mature music
lovers but is purchased by
any music enthusiasts of
all ages. The genre of this
music magazine is indie.
In each Q magazine theirs
always a compiling list, on
this month it’s a 16-page
gig blow out.

5. The indie music magazine
uses many bright and bold
features to encourage
readers to purchase the
magazine. The text is in
capital letters, making it
easy to read and gives a
clear message about who
is the main story in the
magazine. The logo is
always found on the left
top side of Q magazine

6. The large close-up cover
image of Florence
(Florence and the
machine) takes up the
whole cover. The colour
blue is used to tie in
with the eye shadow on
Florence and is shown
on the bullet points and
cover line separators.
The red hair colour also
coordinated with the

7. The image is large and covers the whole of
the magazine cover, some of the writing is
quite big, theirs a range of sizes. The
language used is quite catchy with the
audience and there is some slang used for
example ‘Noisy git’. The magazine has
quite simple colors such as white, red and
blue. The magazine cover has made the
photograph of Florence go with the font
and the magazine logo. This magazine uses
many bright and fold fonts to encourage
the reader to purchase the magazine. Also

9. This music magazine is
aimed at young teens
interested in the latest
music and young
celebrities. The cover is
filled with images and
cover lines, showing a
range of features
shown inside. The
colour scheme consists
of several different
colors creating a fun
and youth theme. The

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Consider the
following
Colours
Styles of text
Langauge used
For my music magazine I
want darkish and warm
colors for example black,
red, orange, brown and
etc… I also want my font
the same but the writing
sizes different depending
on their importance on the
magazine for example
main stories/ headlines I
want large. I’m also
planning on using some
quotes out of my magazine