Shape Magazine is a magazine that covers health and fitness lifestyles, typically of women. All of Shape's magazines have the same style cover, a women on the front, a white background, and words surrounding her. This issue's cover is of Khloe Kardashian, she is in a slimming outfit to help show the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Like most other issues, the woman fills the whole page covering the 'A' in 'Shape' and has a blank, white background. The text surrounds her body and in this issue is pink and black lettering; usually in other issues the colors of the text match the woman on the front with the one color that matches and a black color. The text of 'Shape' is in all capital and bold lettering, and the words surrounding the woman are in different sizes and fonts. The subtext on the sides is different variations of quotes from the issue, some phrases, and titles of the articles in this magazine to draw the readers attention and peak their interest. In every issue there is a very small section of text between the 'S' and 'H' in 'Shape'; in this magazine it is an inspirational quote saying "be beautiful, be in shape" as the magazine's slogan of encouragement to the reader.
Contents:
In the magazine, articles vary between healthy eating, fitness, weight loss, beauty, lifestyle and celebrities that have their own tips and tricks to living a healthy lifestyle. All of the articles have a central idea of health/fitness lifestyles. The first several pages are of ads, all centered around beauty, fitness, and clothing; and the table of contents doesn't start until around page 10. The main articles that were on the cover are spread out evenly amongst the whole magazine, for example page 14, page 29, page 50, page 64, and page 92. There is several pages of beauty and wellness ads, usually on every other page, or in sections that are separated evenly between main articles. On the cover page there is a woman filling the whole page, symbolizing a healthy beneficial lifestyle. On the table of contents some issues have a background picture of healthy food or a person working out. The articles' designs vary based on the type of article, some being a picture of a woman's face for beauty, while some are clothing that are best examples for working out.
Distribution:
The distribution number for Shape magazine is about 2,500,000 people. As a group if we are selling our magazine, approximately 500,000 people would be our distribution number. Overall, Shape magazine is a highly esteemed form of print media that has won several awards: the MIN Editorial Excellence for one of it's fitness mini series and the Folio award for its "Future of Fitness" issue.
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