Page Furniture and Design Elements

Page Furniture is the decorative features used within the magazine that often relates to the overall house style of the magazine. Additionally, such techniques help to make the magazine more interesting and appealing to the target audience and therefore resulting in a more successful reception and publicity.





A feature that is commonly used in a music magazine is the use of stickers. The idea of the sticker is to draw the readers attention to a particular piece of extra information that is not included in the original text.

 Another feature that is used is a pull-quote which you would usually expect to see in a main article. The text used for a pull-quote is usually in a different font, much larger than the rest of the text and can sometime be in a different colour to make it stand out even more. A pull-quote is usually part of someone's conversation or interview and is usually quite a bold statement. Furthermore, using this attracts the readers attention as they are drawn to the comment and therefore are more likely to purchase the magazine.

Sometimes in a magazine the font is highlighted with block colours as this makes the page look more interesting and draws more attention to the key parts of the text.

It is highly common for a music magazine to have a brand identity feature and a page number, Moreover, within magazines that are published monthly rather than weekly it is quite usual to see an issue number to be published there as well to increase the identity aspect of the magazine.



Design elements such as the camera lens with the explosion around it being used for the letter 'O' in 'SHOTS!' is effective as it makes the word look unusual and give it a unique element which makes it more interesting. Also the overall feature works very well as you take 'shots' with a camera.




Another feature used in music magazines is the use of a drop-cap, this is placed at the beginning of an article and is usually blocked by a bold colour that is usually a different colour to the rest of the smaller text and this creates a strong contrast of colours make it more appealing to the eye.

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