It looks professional and I like the fact it offers a free CD with the magazine.
Mojo offer a free CD with every magazine they publish that goes with the artist which is on their front cover for ever edition.
I like the fact the magazine has just used 'Cash' as a heading, Johnny Cash is a very well known artist and the magazine has expressed this by just using his last name as it has assumed everyone knows who he is. It represents the Legend Johnny Cash really is.
The front cover is rather crowded but I think this works well, the white and red writing stand out as it contrasts with the black and white background. I like the font they have used, it is all the same apart from on the masthead where is stays music magazine but that makes the masthead individual to the rest of the magazine. The font used is Arial Bold.
There are 9 cover stories on this magazine but are spread out so non of the cover stories that don't relate to Johnny Cash are on top of his image. I like this idea as it shows his importance to the music industry.
This magazine front cover has influence my creative decisions because i could think about putting a freebie with my music magazine, i could also focus my magazine on one specific artist but also have cover stories relating to other vintage artists just not on top of my main image, this really does show the importance of the artist.
It would be better if you refer to the fonts as serif or sans serif. There are many different styles that are similar and I don't think you can accurately specify a style to what you see. It is possible that the mastheads of most magazines are a font style unique to that magazine.
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