Ray Gun Magazine Analysis

These magazine covers are only a few sections of the many different ones in which Ray Gun produced. These magazines tested everyone’s way of thinking about how a magazine should actually look. The approach to designing these magazines is very different to any other ordinary one. The designers have tested people’s way of thinking and what they think is acceptable to be a magazine front cover. The unique part of the designs of these particular magazines is that every magazine cover is different. Different colours, different layout, different themes. This mean the magazine don’t have a signature look, customers of the magazine do not have a specific design to look out for as every cover is different.

Some people are set against the way these magazines were designed. They feel that it is unacceptable and unreasonable to have as a front cover for a magazine and feel this could be a reason why many people do not purchase the magazine. However, others think the ways these magazines are designed are amazing and the cause of the magazine doing well is because of the wacky designs. Some people like it some people don’t, my own personal opinion is that the magazines are designed in different ways to make an impact for the viewer. I feel that by making sure a wacky design more people are likely to remember the magazine and buy it again to see what the design could be next. I think the designs of the magazines may be a reason for the magazine doing as well as it did. From the magazines I chose I can see that on every design the Masthead still stays at the top. I also noticed that the magazines contain very little information to what is inside the magazine. The magazines always have a main image and have few details to what is included in the magazine, I think this helps to create the effect in which the magazine gives off, it gives it the edge it needs to be successful and liked by people.