Magazine Layouts

One thing that is useful to a graphic designer is to have knowledge with layouts of books, magazines etc and that is exactly what we are looking at. I have been tracing over the layouts of various magazines on paper which include everyday gossip magazines, graphic magazines and i have even looked at newspaper layouts to see the contrast.  
Indesign is a very useful tool for preparing and making layouts and i have been copying a few of the layouts i have drawn onto paper in indesign and highlighting which parts are imagery and which parts are text. Here are some of the work that i have done on indesign;

Here the red boxes represent images and the text filled boxes represent text. This is a double page spread from Eye magazine. By looking at many graphics magazines i have noticed that almost every one dedicate a whole page to an image that is relating to the article.

Again this is another double page spread from Eye  magazine and here there is more of a cluster of images and more text included in this article.

This double page spread is from the popular magazine for woman, Glamour. These sort of magazines can have very interesting layouts as they are not afraid to have a diagonal picture and convention columned text. Here the columns of text are not exactly rectangle as the picture that has been placed on the middle has cut off a tiny bit off the edge on both of the columns.