Annotation of Magazine Contents Pages.

I have chose to look at these 2 contents pages for inspiration for my own. I decided that i would look at one contents page by Elle in 1991, and one in 2008. The change in the contents page's compositions are obvious. Both of them look excellent and are really eyecatching in many different ways. The 1991 Elle contents page is very structured, with everything in certain place, and with black lines to emphaysize the idea that it has been structured this way. However, although the 2008 cover is structured, it has been made to look like it isn't, With many different images overlapping, but with the actual Contents box on top of all the images. This 2008 contents page looks so good because of how busy it is, And although it looks messy, it still all fits in really well and the overall composition is fantastic. Also, the colour scheme has been thought out well to make all the images in the background go (The neutral colours, along with the pinks and nude tones). However, i do really love the idea of simplicity, and making everything look clean cut and chic, So i really love the 1991 contents page of Elle. With the large title and everything else structured from the title down the page. The plain white background looks so good contrasted against the bold red text and the black text. The fonts all work really well, with 'ELLE' being the only serif font, and the rest being sans-serif (almost as if to emphaysize the Elle title). Also, the two images have been placed well on the page. However, when designing my contents page, i think i will try to stick to more of a colour scheme than this one has (All the text/background is red, white & black - but then the image has alot of blue in it). I think, i will try and create a contents page that mixes the 1991 cover (the chic simplicity) with the 2008 cover (the stylish business) - Hopefully having a contents page that mixes both of these ideas together will work well.