Dazed & Confused contents page as inspiration

Dazed&Confused is not a music magazine, however, I was deeply inspired by its contents page.

I really like the idea of the content page being a double spread page, because it produces more space for images and the cover lines. I am going to keep my initial idea about creating two columns, one for cover lines, one for images, however it will look a bit similar the this content page. I also like the graphics and the design itself, its very unusual, and I believe, suits the style of my magazine.

Contents page: images

Here I present several ideas of the pictures I'd like to use on my contents page.
I am planning on organazing a photoshoot to produce similar pictures.

Contents page; process of creation

Here are some ideas of the cover lines, which I am planning to include:

· Concert schedule 2012

Coldplay

Florence and the machine

Kasabian

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Snow Patrol

The Black Keys and many others

· Can you feel it coming? Kasabian in Australia.

· Face of Armani: Sergio Pizzorno.

Guitarist remembers his past.

· Exclusive! German Lavrovsky will tell you everything

· Red Hot Chili Peppers -“I’m with you”. Their plans for summer+the review of the last album

· January SALES: Urban Outfitters, The Kooples, and many others.

· Steven Meisel new work

· Kurt Cobain journal (one page from his journal is published in every issue of L’esprit)

· Review of 15 new albums

· New music apps for your Iphone

Contents page; my starting point

After I’ve produced my final front cover I am now planning to create a contents page.

Contents page must be very interesting, attention-grabbing because this is the source where the reader will find out what is inside the magazine.

I’ve already looked at different layouts of the contents pages and I think the most suitable is the one where there are two columns, one includes cover lines with page number and the other presents picture which will tell more about the articles.

It important to remember that contents page has to link with the front cover and should have the same design as the front cover.

the Front Cover: Final Editing

I finished editing two possible front covers for my music magazine L'ESPRIT. However, I need to decide which one would become the actual front cover of the magazine.
Could you please vote which one you prefer :)
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process of creation the front cover so far..

So far I've put barcodes, issue details, price and cover lines on the front cover. However, I might remove some of the cover lines and make the rest of them bigger so they would stand out more. It is important to mention that while doing this front cover I'm also working on the second one which I've presented earlier.

Cover lines.

Here I present several ideas of my cover lines which should be attention-grabbing:

• Concert schedule 2012: Can you feel it coming? Kasabian in Australia


• Face of Armani: Sergio Pizzorno


• Exclusive: frank interview of German Lavrovsky + photoshoot


• RHCP open air: plans for summer


• The Kooples: SALE