Magazine Front Cover - Analysis 2

Flip Teen Magazine – Analyse

Linking to the 60’s era, Hippies were around who wore vibrant/rainbow colours as an influence from Native American, Indian, African, and Latin American motifs and patterns. From the large amount of colours used on this cover, Flip must of targeted young hippies and of course Teens (from the title/masthead). The colours are bold to attract the audience by drawing them in with the variety of colours around the cover, they’re spaced out so dark/light colours don’t dominate the whole front cover. At the time of this Magazine being released, the magazine is aimed at Teens and some adults because of the images being people like The Birds and Sir Paul McCartney, at the time they were extremely popular to most ages but now 40/50 years later this would more be appealing for people that were born in the 60s or earlier rather than teens of now, unless they were in to the 60s Music. The font looks unprofessional in comparison to now, but the font was unique as it was positioned in different ways to fit the shapes while also being bold, relatively large and it’s as if someone had designed the font by hand to be outstanding and noticeable. In the top right hand corner you can notice that the issue was the May edition so this magazine could have been a monthly published. The main articles of this magazine are of interviews of or about the people that are on the magazine cover, while also featuring others that aren’t featured on the cover as an image itself. On the bottom right corner, it’s mentioned about “Meet….Plus More!” this could be considered as a possible competition in the magazine to meet the mentioned bands/singers but the audience must by the magazine to read more creating more attention. In comparison to other 60’s Magazine, a big difference from them to this is that there’s barely any empty space, unlike other front covers most of this cover is covered with either Typography/font text, the hexagons build up a layer with even inside being covered by mainly coloured text or there are images relating to the Articles and Masthead to also cover other parts of the cover. In addition with the font and colours, they are both placed together quite cleverly in the sense that the background of a certain hexagon is always the opposite to the font, for example the red hexagon contain some black to make the smaller sized font stronger but the lighter colours such as White and light blue stand out from a darker background.