Vogue
This picture of Harry is displayed in a double page spread manner. Harry is still the biggest and most important part of this picture and giving that the picture is displayed on two pages, it shows how significant Harry truly is. He covers a large amount of the two pages and is strategically placed in the middle of the two pages. His face is also placed strategically in a way that when the pages fold, his face isn't in the crease.
The color pallete in this picture is relatively bland, however there is a pop of red on one of the wheels, which could connote danger, blood, action.
Harry is dressed in a very particular way, he is wearing a skirt which has the colors of the background, not having a lot of contrast with the actual background. He is then topless, showing his tattoos significance and it connotes strength, manliness, power,etc. It also shows the male body, showing the fact that he's relatively muscular. And finally is in a pair of what seems to appear as ripped socks, and an old pair of vans, which ties in with the rest of the photo, giving it a homey feel.
The title of this 2 page spread is playtime, and is in the classic font that Vogue uses. This is also the masthead of this page. The text underneath ‘PLAYTIME’ says “ dressing up, making music, living in the moment, this is what matters to Harry styles, Labels? Not so much. This statement proves that Harry and Vogue are trying to promote the fact that labels don't matter as much as people say they do. They are trying to normalise the different fundamental conflicts in our society. This is further proved in the small text placed in the top left corner stating harry’s quote “I find myself looking at womens clothing, thinking they're amazing.” This shows that fashion is a big part of society and vogue, being a fashion magazine, they're promoting the fact that fashion can in fact be for everyone!
Nylon
The title of the article is “retro realness” which is a play on words with modern phrases and words used among teenagers and part of the vocabulary younger people use, which makes it appealing and interesting to read to younger people/teenagers. The colour scheme of both pages is a continuity of the cover page and contents page with the bright and happy colours, predominantly pink and light blue. The effect of a collage-like design is kept all throughout the magazine, with the text being placed on top of the pictures making it look like it's been cut out and printed on paper and stuck onto a wall or journal, yet again appealing to the target audience of young adults/teenagers. Same thing relates to the illustration which has a watercolour effect and makes it look like someone coloured it directly on the magazine page. The pictures on the double spread are of young girls, to which the readers ( also young girls) can compare themselves to and relate to. Furthermore, the pictures are presented and arranged on the page like they've been stuck on a wall as polaroids , which is a growing trend in teenage girls’ rooms/ journals. The brush font has a connotation of spontaneity, playfulness and has the effect that it's been handwritten on the page which works well in combination with the collage effect of the cover and bullet journal effect of both the contents and the double spread pages.
Looking at the general view of the cover, we can see that the text is mostly small and less noticeable, this makes the viewer concentrate more on the main cover photograph than on the written information.
ID Boston
The layout of the page is very minimalistic, as is the design and the writing. There is no eye-catching title, the title of the pages is the location of the houses, so this is only an informative title. Also, there isn’t much writing, and all the writing is very discrete and small, which redirects the viewers attention to the pictures rather than the written information. The pictures are of two separate houses located in two different places, and they are separated on the two pages, so the magazine can be properly closed and opened without any creases forming on the pictures. The pictures don’t seem to be very edited, or naturally edited, so the colour scheme is neutral, with a lot of beiges and darker old-fashioned colours, that the interior of the houses contain. The background of the page is white so that it doesn’t distract the viewer from the main focus, the pictures. Furthermore, the logo of the magazine is present in the top right corner as a small subtle detail, while in the left bottom corner there is a footer
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