Cover Design Template

The magazine is called 'Sota Wellness. This title was collectively decided on by my group and I because, like other health and fitness magazines, it is usually one to two words and is relative. We based ours like 'Women's Health' and 'Men's Health', but related it locally because our content will be about different areas of Sarasota, and chose 'wellness' because we will be talking about health, fitness, diets and more. We shortened Sarasota to keep it modern but short so 'Sota and 'Wellness' would flow together. I used Microsoft Publisher as my way to build my cover template. I chose a bold and basic font in a bright, hot pink color so the title will stand out to the desired audience. I will eventually schedule a photo-shoot for the person on the front, it being someone from a local health-based restaurant. I will be showing the person's head and torso, covering the full length page. The model's head will cover part of the title, the 'W' and 'E' in 'Wellness', which is commonly used in all other healthy lifestyle based magazines. I chose a blank, white background that will help bring out the person on the cover, the title and the subtexts surrounding her, which helps appeal to the reader much more. I decided on a bold, different font/color subtexts surrounding the person. This is going to provide variety for the reader and bring in the whole general color idea of pinks and blacks. The subtexts are titles of articles in this issue and inspirational quotes to help the reader be inspired to live healthier and keep in shape. I named them "headine" for article names, "feautured article" and "main article headline" for the most important articles of the issue, and "subheading" for the inspirational quotes. All these decisions I made were to appeal to the audience of readers interested in becoming healthier, and were based on decisions made by magazines I researched. For my inspiration on this cover page, I used SHAPE Magazine.

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