Music Magazine Research and Planning

Q Magazine Logo Evolving Over The Years


The Q magazine website is a great place for me to look for inspiration due to the fact that they have all of their magazine covers ever published from 1986 to 2012. The allows me to be able to see how their magazine has evolved over time.
I am able to see that from 1986 until May 1992 the Q logo was published in many different colours, such as light blue, dark blue, black, orange, yellow, purple, pink and green.
From May 1992 the Q Magazine company logo was only published in red.
For a visual representation of the Q magazine cover logos evolving over time visit the link below:
http://covers.q4music.com/Default.aspx?year=1986

Music Magazine Research and Planning

This is an example of a music magazine that i have annotated. The reason for me to choose a Q magazine cover for inspiration was because their front cover are simple yet effective due to their clever front cover designs, colours and promotions. 
Also, people are able to immediately recognize the magazine company as here their easily recognizable company logo is shown in the top left of the magazine (as always) and is in a white on red background which again reinforces the 'stand out' feature of the magazine itself.

Music Magazine Research and Planning

Web Based Research

The majority of the web research that I have found has told me that Q magazine’s target audience are the older generation such as people in their 30's and 40's who are looking for a different mode of address, more sophisticated and just want to know more about the music. 

Although the founders state that they want to appeal to all the older generation, it seems that Q magazine doesn't appeal to many woman of that age.

Contents Page

This is my magazine cover. However, due to time constraints I wasn't able to input actual text into where is wished. But, to compensate for this I have illustrated where the text would have been.