Analysing College Magazines

Analysing College Magazines

In order to understand what the common conventions of popular and successful magazines are, which need to be used in my magazine cover and contents page, I will be analysing two different college magazine covers to find out what is effective about their design and what is not. This is important as my magazine needs to represent the needs of the target audience and show what the target audience expects to see. This is backed up by the ideas of the following theorist, a creative process will be successful when developed it it follows existing conventions of the target audience.


'Creativity results from the interaction of a system composed in three elements: a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain. and a field of experts who recognise and validate the innovation' ( Caikazentmihalyi, 1996)