Music Magazine Front Cover Flat Plan 1

This is the first mock up for my front cover which i have now began to plan the design of. This first design is inspired by the Billboard front cover with Imagine Dragons as the featured band on the magazine. The design was so simplistic is was a delight to read and as it was simplistic, it focused on the featured band which I loved because it gave me exactly what I wanted which was to read bout the featured band. When you walk by a magazine and purchase it because of the band/artist on the front, you want to read about them because you were enticed to purchase the magazine because of them so why should you go through pointless articles of other artists and ads? This is why I designed this first mock up like this (look below to find the mock up), to avoid any wasted info and give the reader exactly what they wanted and not to disappoint my target audience.