Research into Similar Products (Cover 1)

As part of the course, I have to research similar products to my own (Magazines). Although my magazine will be a music magazine, my comments are based on layout, composition and imagery.

I had a quick Google of "Magazine covers" and I began to look through the results. one cover stood out to me like a sore thumb. It was a Times magazine cover featuring Steve Jobs. (see below)

 

What I love about this cover is how Jobs' face is centralised, how his face is only half lit and how everything but his face is pure black. I feel like this makes Jobs seem powerful, it grasps your attention. When I first saw this cover I was immediately drawn to his eyes, and for at least a second he felt god-like, like he had been taken out of the normal world and put into his own world for us to admire.