Analysing: Billboard

It is difficult to read the title on this magazine. This is because there is a close up photograph, of Lilly Allen, over lapping the title. The model is centred in the magazine. The style of a model/musician overlapping a title is not unusual (example Kerrang! From analysing Music Magazine 2). However the magazine Lilly Allen is featured on is not famous like Kerrang! So this does not work well.
The writing throughout the magazine cover is difficult to read. The font colour on the magazine is white. This is easiest seen on the word ‘Allen.’ Lilly Allen is wearing a white dress and accessories. This makes the word nearly invisible to read, and this is no good for any audience he magazine is aiming for.

Although a lot of the fonts on the magazine do not work, the pink sub-titles work. These pink sub-titles do not match the green in the title, and they do not work well with the white writing, however they do work well with the grey background. Grey and bight pink or blue look good with each other. The bright pink colour is the only readable font on this magazine.
The green dot makes no sense. In the title of the magazine, inside the ‘d’ there is a green dot. Inside the ‘B’ this is no green. On the rest of the magazine cover there is no green. The green dot does not make the cover look pretty or cool. This is why the green dot makes no sense and I find it a massive design flaw.

The photographer has taken the photo of Lilly Allen that does not look good. The photograph looks too bright, like there were lights, and flash used. This has made some patches of her skin nearly bright white. This has effected the readability of the white font used. Certain parts of her face look orange and uneven, this is why the photo is bad.

The genre of this magazine difficult to tell. The image of Lilly Allen led me to initially believe this was a music magazine. The title of this magazine Bill***rd does not make much sense, and I cannot make out the word. The subtitles have words like ‘360 deals digital dollars’ this confused me on the genre. Overall the design of this magazine is awful for finding its correct audience.