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Pre-Magazine Research Covers for Business Magazines should impact the viewer into aspire greater things in life, or representing successful individuals in order to illustrate the top lifestyle in today's society… Go to this Sway

Magazine Target Audience Research

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Forbes is an American Business and Entrepreneur magazine. The genre includes: "finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics" and the target audience reaches the entire world. Due to interviewing the most successful people in the planet, Forbes interview people from all over the world, its target audience includes company staff, business students, stock investors, entrepreneurs, high school, overall anyone 8 and up. "Forbes also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics, and law. Its headquarters is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. Primary competitors in the national business magazine category include Fortune and Bloomberg Businessweek. The magazine is well known for its lists and rankings, including of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400), of the world's top companies (the Forbes Global 2000), and The World's Billionaires. The motto of Forbes magazine is "The Capitalist Tool". Its chair and editor-in-ch...

Magazine Conventions Research

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Audience:   the audience for my magazine "Flip Dinero", is entrepreneurs, business leaders, stock investors, and overall anyone in the business world or business aspirations. Mise-en-scene: The Mise-en-scene is a modern, futuristic yet with a time stamp magazine, that is up to date. Fonts with mainly sans serif, bright colors, and material design. Genre:    Flip Dinero will embody the genre of Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, and Bloomberg Businessweek all in one. Illustrating most successful people in an area while covering financial and business news. Masthead: The masthead will be behind the main image and will be able to be moved. Due to the magazine being a modern magazine it will have larger flexibility with its design than other business magazines such as Forbes or entrepreneur. Main Image:   the image will be in the center of the front page, the picture is usually of a person who will ...

Magazine Spread Research

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Entrepreneur Magazine uses a clean and structured organization of its spread. Usually titled with a serif font and uses a serif drop cap at the start of the article. It only uses one image to represent the text and a quotation is always in the center of the text. Organization of the article is divided by a "T" and flows from right to left. Forbes Magazine divides a spread in half, usually depicting the main person or image in the first whole page and the story in the second one. For their articles, they use sans serif and their titles and subheadline while a serif font for the main text. Also highlighting the important items of information. Also, they promote similar articles at the top of the second page to promote the genre. Bloomberg Businessweek uses a color scheme to represent the article genre. Also, use san serif as the headlines and subheadlines while using serif as the main text. The main im...

Magazine Table of Contents Research

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Entrepreneur magazine table of contents is always around 100 pages. The main article is always featured as a background or side image in the table of contents. Fonts are usually bold on the most important stories and since the magazine is about forward-thinking it uses sans serif fonts. Forbes magazine also illustrates the images of the main articles. Along the side of the main images, it illustrates the smaller articles with a serif font and a different color for the pages of the articles. Usually, around 150 pages Forbes bolds its most controversial topics and gives around 1 to 2 sentences of description per article. Bloomberg Business also uses a main image or illustration to show its main article or at times the image itself will illustrate various colleges of the articles. Also like Forbes and Entrepreneur, Bloomberg places its table of contents along the main image and gives instead one sentence for each article description. However, f...

Magazine Cover Comparisons

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Covers for Business Magazines should impact the viewer into aspire greater things in life, or representing successful individuals in order to illustrate the top lifestyle in today's society; while, at the same time educating and showing the public how to achieve the same success. Entrepreneur Magazine  main image : Entrepreneur Magazine   uses Maria Sharapova along with always one  entrepreneur  as their main image, usually a great use of a business or success symbol. Banner:   Entrepreneur places their banner at the top of their magazine across all covers, to promote something exclusive for example an interview which they want the reader to identify. Puff :   an incentive which is placed on the cover to make something stand out. Usually by putting text around a shape. Color scheme: the color scheme of the magazine depends on the dominant color of the main image, thus usually as background to the entrepreneur. Font package :...

Mood Board Project Analysis

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Dissecting typography, images, unity, and colors while constructing a mood board! "Reflective project analyzing the millennial 'American Woman'!" “American Woman” contextualizes the stereotypical millennial female; while concurrently depicting the thought-provoking, experimental and impetuous mindset in today's youth. The contrast and divergence in color lure the reader; an exuberant scarlet red, embellished by the canary yellow, eclipsing the retro black, accentuates on the symbolization of time. A strategic choice of color juxtaposing the more classical era and twenty-first century’s perpetual exploratory psychology. The disunity of dynamic colors on the right, correlated to a more feeble palette on the left reinstates the evident partition between time. A rouge pink on a raven black gives insight to the dark rock'n'roll age, and rhythmic manifestation at the time. The utilization of a more condensed, bold, vibrant sans-serif font family as the...