MY MAGAZINE COVER

I’m not a photoshop wizard, however I am very pleased with the way my magazine cover turned out. I used greens and blues to break the stereotypical binary code of women’s magazines using pinks and purple fonts. I used the picture of a woman with a mug to show that she is just an ordinary woman and not a made up, airbrushed size 0, but more like an average woman that could easily be your neighbour or co worker.

The stories on the front of the magazine are what I think real women would like, and need to know.

I tried to make the stories empowering to woman while not making them seem too stereotypical or bias of femininity. I do like my magazine cover and when I look at a copy of Good House Keeping sitting on my kitchen table they look and read very differently, however when I look at the stories on my magazine again, I realise that they do only seem to show one tiype of femininity, it has made me realise that although I have slated female magazines for only representing one type of female, it is an incredibly difficult publishing rut to escape from.