Q Magazine Cover Analysis

This cover is taken from Q magazine featuring Ed Sheeran with his guitar.

Personally, I like the layout of the front cover with the writing all around the side and not completely covering Ed Sheeran. I like the different font used for his name because it stands out and is clear to the audience that this is Ed Sheeran if they didn’t know what he looked like. The text is also in the middle of the screen, making it easy for the readers to find the text.

I like how different sections are separated using red lines coming out of the side of the magazine, giving it a nice feature and easy for the reader to tell where the text cuts off for a different section of the magazine.  

I like that text overlaps the title because I haven't seen that before in a magazine showing it is original and new. I also like the “Essential” mixed with the red, making the text stand out and the white writing in the red circle seen by the reader.

Overall, I like this magazine cover. I like how the text is spaced out across the magazine and a little text is over his body, where no text is over his face and is above all the other layers, making it stand out the most on that mage.