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House style project After viewing ten different presentations analyzing ten different magazine covers and their house style, I learned a handful of things regarding both what I will need to do when I am making my magazine and what I will need to keep in mind when creating my presentations. I've picked up on a couple things. Fonts in particular have a greater impact than you may think. For example, a more professional font like Garamond is more for businesses and another example is when a magazine puts their title behind or in front of the main topic to emphasize it, take Rolling Stones for instance. They put their header in front or in back of the front celebrity depending on how famous they are. Also the pictures have a great impact too;  Sports illustrated puts the athletes as the focus of the magazine and blurs the background to emphasize the focus of the magazine, also their font is masculine and the colors identify a manly audience. Diction plays a big role in your cover a...

The vibrant oranges are usually used for caution in street signs, the same goes for my mood board. The color scheme lets the audience know that my magazine will most likely be about preventing drug abuse and vices. The classic "no smoking" font will be used quite a lot for my magazine because it will catch the reader's eye letting them know already that it will be about preventing vices: Drugs, human trafficking, criminal activity, and fraud. For my magazine, I will want to be talking about the deep web and how easy it is now to deliver any drugs or counterfeit bills to your household anonymously with the click of a button. All the human sex trafficking going on in the world. And most importantly addiction. Addiction is a huge problem going on in America. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. 21.5 million American adults (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in 2014. https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-statistics...