The title of the magazine consists of a large, bold font to ensure that the cover is recognisable and noticeable by the target audience. By ensuring that the font remains consistent through other issue of this branch of magazines, it becomes easier for the target audience to identify that this is a music magazine which could persuade them to purchase it.

The designers have decided to do yellow on black for the title of the issue and the main article. These colours used as this suggests that a black panel behind the yellow type would improve legibility.

The darkened background used allows the main image and the supporting text to be more noticeable and more striking. This allows the reader to highlight the important articles within the magazine.

‘The Race Issue’ is included as the main header to this issue. The text is in block capitals and consists of bright colours. This could suggest that the designers are attempting to highlight other important issues that may drift away from the music genre.

The barcode is situated in the bottom right corner. This is so that this does not interfere with the main image and supporting captions on the cover. This is included for sales purposes so that the reader can purchase it from a store or shop.

The caption to support the main image, ‘This Year Drake Became King’ consists of a large, striking font to try and capture the attention of the audience. The font may be familiar with the Drake and therefore shows relevance and maintains consistency. The symbol at the end of the text could highlight that this is an important article and therefore persuades the audience to purchase it and read the content within.

The main image clearly shows a close up of Drake. The close up of his face emphasises that he is the main attraction to this issue of the magazine as well as the seriousness of the figure. This is expressed through the figure’s head point downwards slightly and looking directly forwards to a perspective that his eyes are watching the audience and follows them. This could be a method of persuasion to buy the magazine or to just grab attention.

A rhetorical question is placed here to further support the main header. This asks the reader about their personal views on the matter. This directly targets the audience and can persuade them to buy it as this concerns them as they are directly targeted.

The other articles listed within this issue are positioned vertically and orderly. This can emphasise maturity surrounding this particular issue as other issues of Vibe do not present these additional articles in a format similar to this.

The title of the magazine consists of large ‘Q’ with a white font colour and a red background. The ‘Q’ is in white and is bold to enable it to stand out from the background. This could imply that the magazine is important and possibly powerful.

The designers of this magazine have decided to use white on black for the title/logo. The tests carried out by Karl Borgrgrafe to show which colours worked best together, in which white on red does.

The lightened background is used to subject Adele’s image to make her more striking and therefore more noticeable and more appealing to the audience.

‘The 300th Issue’ highlights a milestone of the company that designed this magazine. Additionally, the content within this could be completely irrelevant to the rest of the content within the magazine but remains genre related as it mentions ‘Paul McCartney’ who is within the music business.

The other articles listed along the left side of the magazine. The sizes of the text are varied, this suggests that the larger texts emphasise that the article is reasonably large and important compared to the smaller sized texts. The colours used for the text are black on white and red on white. These colours are striking to grab the reader’s attention and are some of the most legible combinations.

The barcode is situated in the bottom right corner. This is so that this does not interfere with the main image and supporting captions on the cover. This is included for sales purposes so that the reader can purchase it from a store or shop.

The main image shows a close up of Adele posing erotically. This can be a marketing skill to persuade potential readers to purchase the issue as it could feature images of Adele such as this cover image. The close up of Adele’s face emphasises that she is the main attraction of the issue and therefore contributes to the main article. The image shows that she is facing directly at the camera to a perspective that his eyes are watching the audience and follows them. This could be a method of persuasion to buy the magazine or to just grab attention.

A quote is placed in front of the main attraction as a short summary of a performance either by another media source or by Adele herself. This will persuade the audience to read it so they can read the article to understand the quote. Other quotes positioned around the image are of a smaller text size to this one. This suggests that the magazine consists of more music relate articles but are of less importance compared to the article revolved around Adele.

The title of the magazine is positioned directly behind the main image of the magazine. However, the title is not always completely visible on all or most of their issues. This shows that the company has structure to their magazines and therefore could be a trademark symbol of the company as it is instantly recognisable and is consistent.

The other artists featured in this issue of the magazine are positioned vertically. The layout for these are organised and appears professional. This could express maturity within the magazine and respect the work of these artists. This is an adapted style amongst most issues of Rolling Stone.

Other artists and bands are also listed in the header of the magazine. These shows there are an excessive number of artists that are included in this issue but may be positioned in the header to maintain professionalism and maturity. The text here is of a different font style to highlight that these articles may be about artists that may not be all genre related but are of importance.

The magazine title consists of large, bold title in a font style that could resemble the 1960s. This can be interpreted by the title as it says ‘Rolling Stone’ which closely relates the rock band, ‘The Rolling Stones’ in which the magazine have adopted a style to support this time period in which the rock genre was at its peak. The colour of the font is red on white, which is striking to grab the reader’s attention and one of most legible combinations

The text box here has no direct relevance to the music genre but is another article that is included with in the magazine. The box is tilted on a slight angle to maintain a similar structure to other issues of this magazine. The maturity of the magazine is retained as only two colours used to allow it to stand out amongst the rest of the magazine and the changed in text sizes to portray more important aspects of the headline.

The main image of the magazine is a mid-shot of Bob Dylan. The photographer and designers have decided to make the image black and white so that it stands out from the white background. This can also be used to emphasise that the magazine mainly focuses on the period of time when rock was at its peak.

To support the image, a larger caption is also presented with it. This is to make the cover seem more interesting in appearance whilst supporting the main cover image. The text is in white so that it stand amongst the main image.