Analysis of A College magazine cover

The layout of this college magazine cover is a very simple one. It has one major picture covering the whole of the cover, this helps making the cover less cluttered and confusing from over-use of pictures that some magazines suffer from. The text is also simplified in order to make the cover look more professional and cluttered, by using very simple text and only using the bare minimum, which can be a downside as well as an upside.Less text means less clutter and confusing but less text also means less information, most magazines struggle to find a balance between them, but this cover has done that.The colours that the cover uses complement each other very well, the text has taken colours from the main picture and used them to help the cover look more professional and also to avoid any un-wanted colour clashes. The image used also help make the magazine look more attractive, along with the fact that Only one picture was used on the cover it means that less room is taken up by endless pictures. So it helps the front cover look less cluttered and confusing. It enables the cover to have some sort of focus compared to some other magazines that have overloaded their cover with pictures and text.