Inital Ideas

When I was looking at a name, genre or even layout for my magazine, I realized that most popular mainstream magazines had titles that where short, bold and iconic, words that stuck out to grab the attentions of the targeted audience, simple words such as vibe or blender; something that is easily remembered.
I used magazines such as:

• Vibe
• We <3 POP
• Q
• Entertainment Weekly
• Clash
• Rolling Stones

I looked at a variety of magazine types to find similar and reoccurring conventions that I would then use as inspiration to produce my magazine cover. 

So when I started I throw around a few ideas as my magazine is going to based on a music magazine, most likely either 'Pop' or 'R&B' being the genre of my magazine as I've not decided yet. At first I came up with tune and produced a mathshead and background with the name 'Tune productions' the colour scheme was also going to be orange and purple, although as I later progressed through my work I discovered that dark colours such as purple didn't connote pop very well and I asked my of my peers what genre would they think my magazine would be based on, the most common response was 'classical music'.
This made it very clear that I need to change the theme, I wanted to use warmer colours such as pink and white yet I didn't want to follow the same scheme as many of my peers, it was clear I needed something more unique. So I decided to keep with the orange and play about with various shades of orange and red. My second problem was the name of my magazine, I didn't really scream pop therefore I decided to reinvent the name, creating 'The Beat'. I would then redesign all of my themes and backgrounds based upon this.