RESEARCH ON MAGAZINES

CONTEMPORARY FASHION MAGAZINE

--> different styles

--> take the one suits carhartt the most for reference 

1Granary 

• student-run magazine 
• Works as a bridge between education and industry, where both can work together collaboratively, just being creative, for creativity's sake
• celebrates the best talent from Central Saint Martins 
• Provides an intriguing look at the everyday life and work at CSM 
• Celebrate and debut the work of students past and present, alongside insightful advice from those already established within industry 
• Interviews with stylists 

Layouts:

• text aligned to the edge of the page
• New typeface for the headings
• Regular for the caption
• Italic for the extra information of the image
• Centred quotes

Buffalo Zine

• slow paced publishing 
• Anarchic approach to magazine format 
• Two kilo coffee table book exploring youth culture and nostalgia

Layouts:

• With no fixed style
• Artsy approach 
• Always with playful typography 

• Background could be a photographed texture (not only plain colours) 

--> artsy approach doesn't suit a workwear brand
--> textured background might work

Gentlewoman

• timeless aesthetic
• Attention to details 
• Elegant and clean 
  
  
  
  

Layouts:

• text could be placed vertically, so as images
  
• Images could be placed on a page using the simple 4 grid system
• Images could be placed with a white border or occupying the whole page
  
  
  
  
• Image captions could be overlaid on top of images
• Make use of the sizes of text to act as a distinguisher between headings/ subheadings and body text
• Images could be duplicated in a page to create an interesting layout
• Use big typography or numbers on one page to separate different sections of the magazine 
• A line could be used to separate text sections 

human being

• bi-annual print magazine

Layouts:

• clean modern design
• Iconic design: using coloured frames to layout images on the centre of the page
• Place text on the coloured frames, surrounding the images
• Barcode at the side of images, on the frames --> could place QR code like the way they placed the barcodes --> at the edge/ corner

ΠMagazine

• concentrates on showing fashion by purely focusing on images
  

Layouts:

• images could be placed in a randomly collaged layout
  
• Wise use of geometry, using triangles for titles and rectangles to collage with images to create breadth 
• Bright coloured text and headings to make them standout from images
• Use white boxes to chop off images for placing text

Sum Zine

• Focuses on sustainable fashion
• Has their own instagram account -->The company have acknowledged the fact that their audiences are adopters of new technology and are very engaged in social media such as instagram --> posts main elements of their content on instagram
• As they have online platforms like online magazine and instagram, information could be spread via the internet, therefore, for the physical magazine, they could focus more on the visuals and layouts without cramping paragraphs of informative text --> do not really have much information on the printed magazine 

Layouts:

• pastel and bright colours
• Bold coloured borders
• Less condensed text
• Minimalist

STREETWEAR MAGAZINES

Highsnobiety

• has a youtube channel with interviews and videos about music, art and fashion
• Instagram account is a great platform to find inspiration for both style and photography 

Layouts:

• clean layout designs
• Significant grid system
• White bordered background
• Body text centred on the page leaving white space on the sides
• Headings incorporated on product images
• Text could be overlaid on images and photos
• Text either centred on the page or aligned to the sides
• Image on image to create a photo collage

HYPEBEAST

• hong kong based
• Youtube channel with inspirational content that has features of celebs, desingers, event coverage, street styrl, and documentary-like films

Layouts:

• simple yet significant cover layout design 
• text could be both hand written and typed out 
• The spine does not act as a limitation for placing images
• Interviews: bolded text for questions, regular text for answers
• Centred image with centred text below
• Dot as a section separator

FGUK magazine

• london based
• Urban fashion magazine
• Streetwear mainly focusing on menswear
• sell both Digital versions and printed versions
• Sell magazines in a bundle from where consumers get to have both the digital snd the physical magazine

Layouts:

• Making use of barcodes as visual element on cover
• The iconic FGUK typeface
  
• Bnw images with bright type and background colours