Aesthetic Magazine - Front cover and Double page

Aesthetic Magazine

• The Masthead is written in black bold Georgia font style which is simplistic and clean. The aesthetic magazine uses the same font style on their Masthead for each magazine. This allows it to be globally and easily recognisable for the audience.
• The Main image of a women takes up most of the space of the front cover magazine. The text to image ratio is very small, this shows that the producer wants his audience to focus more on the picture than the text.
• The producer has used a medium shot, this makes the women's shoulder and chest more visible to the audience. The producer may have intended to do this to create a male gaze to attract more audience.
• The camera angle focuses more on the women's gestures and her body which results in her being sexualised.
• The use of the iconography, the big earrings, pearl necklace and her hair held back connotes the old fashion portrayal of women.
• The use of the make-up, red lipsticks and long eyelashes sexualises her. She is presented as a common stereotypical view of a woman.
• The dominant colour used in the front cover is red, the polka dots in the background and red lipsticks are the editor's intention to create a dominant colour appeal. The colour red connotes ideas of love, passion and lust which reflects the male gaze attention of men.
• The use of the producer portraying a white woman on the front cover page is conventional, the producer may have intentionally done this to relay back to past trends.
• The aesthetic magazine is an international art and culture magazine. It was created in 2002, it covers contemporary art from all around the world across visual arts such as photography, fashion and design.