(39) Magazine Review - Double Page Spread

AS ALWAYS GUYS, welcome back, take a seat, let's get straight into it, so for this blog I've picked out some juicy examples that I think you guys will really like, so let's get into the reviews!

Ooo, this is really nice, usually we save the best for last, but wow I think this might be the best one already. The images go hard guys, like it's really cool, and the contrast between black and white always looks good, as humans we are attracted by contrast, so this makes great use of that. I love the overlap of the heading onto both pages, it really helps to make them feel connected and it does so in a effective way, I think this double page spread will be my main inspiration, but let's go over some others!

This one is also good, I wouldn't say it's better than the first, it hardly makes use of contrast and the image is rather dull, not to mention that page is too, it could definitely be better if they made more use of empty space and general design principles, moving on

This is one is good and makes decent use of contrast, the way they did their image is unique and inspiring, they do a great job of connecting the two pages to make it look as one. The fonts are nice and stylish too, I find that all capitalized fonts catch way more attention than their lower cased counterparts and that's for good reason of course, I like this double page spread as much as the first one, but I think the color scheme on the first one is more ideal, so we'll stick to that one as our main source of inspiration. Anyways now that we have a more profound understanding of how our cover, table of contents, and double page spread should look I think it would be wise to make a production calendar in order to have a clear timeline of how we will produce this magazine, so I'll get that ready for you to see.

Until then, thanks for reading!

*Images generously taken from free online sources*

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