Magazine contents page design example - Q

This is an example of a contents page from Q magazine. There is a header with the name of the magazine, the issue number and the name of the page. It also has the month and year on the top of it. All the text for the contents page has been alligned to the left. There is an image covering the right side of the page. The image is of the singer James Blunt which shows that this magazine is a music magazine.

What I like about this magazine is how neat and tidy it looks. I also like the idea of having all the text on one side and an image or two of my artist on the other side. I also like having the header on the contents page to separate the name from all the other text. What I do not like about this contents page is the size of the image. I feel that it is to big for the contents page. It will look better on the cover page but it would be better to have more images on the contents page.

I think that for my magazine, this contents page has given me a good starting point when it comes to the design of my contents page. Since my magazine is going to be focussed on the rock genre, I am not sure that having the text alligned to one side will make it that appealing for a rock magazine though.