Rolling Stone Music Magazine Analysis

Masthead: Even though the mast head is party covered by the main image, you can still tell it is “Rolling Stone” magazine, as the house style of the magazine is very iconic, therefore you do not need to see the whole masthead to know what magazine it is. The font of the masthead is punchy and eye catching, as the bright red contrasts against the white background.

Main Cover line: “Justin Bieber Super boy” connotes that Justin is not an ordinary teenager in the sense that he is ‘super’ and capable of huge amounts of success. The font of the main cover line, and all the other cover lines, is sans serif, and in very bold colours of red and black, matching the masthead and keeping a theme running throughout the cover.

Cover line: “The clash: the secret history of punks greatest band” implies that there is something scandalous that the public do not know about a band they have been fans of for a long time. This cover line is intriguing and would probably encourage potential readers to buy the magazine.

Main image: The main image of Justin Bieber is made to make him look quite rough and edgy, as if he is care-free and shows an unusually rebellious side to the teen singer.

The house style of Rolling Stone magazine is generally kept the same through out the different issues of the magazine, for example the Mast head is always the same font, however the colours sometimes vary. In addition to this, the layout of the covers are generally the same, with a main image in the middle and various cover lines and plugs placed around them, occasionally overlapping the image and masthead.