Masthead Analysis

What did I create and why?• When designing these 4 masthead designs, I

purposely created 4 very different styles. I did this as I’m still not sure on the characteristics that I want my masthead to have and thought by creating a range the feedback I received about them would help me decide when it comes to my final design.

• The designs I have were designed with existing mastheads in mind, for example, in my 3rd one, I shortened the title to “DIP” after looking at NME magazines masthead. With the other ones I designed them with my magazine theme in mind which is indie pop, from this I decided to use colours and fonts that are regular, as the indie scene tries to be different from the rest.

Feedback

• As a group we came up with 4 different questions to review each others masthead designs, they were:– 1. Genre of Magazine?– 2. Favourite masthead?– 3. Least favourite masthead?– 4. How to make masthead fit the genre?

Analysing Feedback• I was relatively happy with the feedback

that I received. It was quite clear that my these was indie pop and the majority of people were able to pick that our from my mastheads. The masthead that was preferred throughout my feedback was the 3rd design, there was an agreement that is was able to stand out and look differently well, but improvements could be things such as adding small effects to make it a little more unique.

• A design that no one enjoyed was the first one, everyone seemed to say that it lacked diversity and would struggle to stand out from the music magazine market.