Top 10 NME Front Covers

Top 10 magazine front covers NME

The front covers of the music magazine, NME, are displayed in no particular order and have been accumulated through personal preference and the front cover vote system that NME held themselves, this link takes you directly to this vote site if necessary: http://www.nme.com/photos/the-25-greatest-ever-nme-covers-as-voted-for-by-you-1424362 . 

These NME magazine front covers have provided me with valuable ideas about certain color themes, layouts, fonts  and images that I will potentially use during the development of my official music magazine. Therefore during the planning and construction stages I will be able to develop more time-effectively as I will already have ideas of all page elements to implement.

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Conclusion

From researching, reviewing and selecting my top 10 NME magazine front covers I have learnt valuable ideas about the structure, color themes and how images can be a powerful element of the front page. NME do not use a specific, consistent template for each edition of their magazine. For example, the front cover image I placed in number one position follows a highly vibrant aesthetic using bright pink and green. Additionally the amount of text on the front cover is very limited, mainly only talking about Daft Punk (who of which are the image on the cover). This uses a simplistic yet colorful and attractive style.

On the other hand, if we look at the front cover in 4th position, there is a much larger volume of text placed on this cover, their is more variety is text fonts and colors scene (blue, red, white, black, brown). The text and listed content takes up a larger amount of the cover, suggesting that the artists on the front may not be as reputable as other, larger artists, therefore they must compensate for this by placing the content titles here.