Magazine research, Big Up

This magazine focuses alot on the graphical side of things, as you see directly from the front cover. (As shown in the middle image below)

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Initially looking at this magazine I thought that this magazine would be ideal for featuring my artist, due to the cartoony images giving it a retro feel. The magazine features Dub step and grime music so it would be a good one to feature for due to it's growing population at teenagers and young adults in these genres. Unfortunately, it didn't feature much of advertisements for albums, but more of advertising artists with interviews, and several pages of an illustrator's work to promote him, as shown in the pictures above.

This magazine did not contain any adverts which I could use for reference, but I was able to get some ideas from the many illustrative images that were displayed within it, so it was worth getting my hands on to help me get some ideas.

The illustrator uses both photographic (with digital manipulation) and graphical designs, which both give a bright, colourful visual, giving a retro feel, which would appeal to the young audience which I am also aiming to target with my own magazine advert.