Magazine Cover Analysis

Aim of a Magazine Cover:

To attract target audience
To engage reader by employing appropriate mode of address
To stand out from other magazines of similar genre
To suggest the subgenre of the magazine through the masthead, use of colours, content etc.
To engage the attention of the reader through the main image
To offer reasons for reader to buy the magazine through the cover lines
To convey an ideology to the target audience and sell the reader a lifestyle

These help a company to make and distribute their magazines, with these fundamentals these companies can plan for the design of their cover which gives them a specific target design to make which will appeal to their audience, however they do also have to make them appeal to the rest of the market customers which increases the companies popularity and fan base making them more prominent.