My Final Design

This is my final finished design for my college magazine front cover. I decided to change the orange font to green as it is opposite red on the colour wheel; therefore it creates a clashing effect that grabs attention and makes it look pleasing to the eye. To make the mast head stand out more I put a block of colour behind it and made it a bright lime green shade. I think this looks much better and makes my front cover look vibrant. To make people want to buy my magazine I have enlarged certain key words to grab buyers attention. For example  the '20% off' is much larger than the rest of the cover line that follows it. I improved the banner at the bottom by changing the colour and the font, I also made the banner less transparent. I added the date and price to the front cover, but kept them small and discreet to not take the focus away from my cover lines. I changed the position of my barcode as I felt in my first draft it was too close to my models head. The final design is slightly different to my flat plans that I originally produced as I felt that it was important that the main image was spread across the whole page. I also got rid of the puff as I felt that there was already enough information on the cover.  Initially I was going to have a tag line, but after much thought I decided against this as I thought it would sound too cheesy and it wouldn't add anything to the page. Overall I am very happy with my final design and I thing by using reds and greens it will appeal to both genders.