I chose the purple to contrast nicely with the cream of the artwork, and also because it's a fairly unusual colour to see on the header of a magazine colour, the title is paraphrased from a quote by "David Carson".
I've realised that this needs to be improved, it's got a little but too much information, and the image needs to be on the other side, as well as the fact that the grey doesn't stand out enough, I'll start by rearranging the layout and see what I can come up with (it turns out that long the way it's going to get much worse before it gets better).
To get my head around the problems that I'd created for myself I decided to really mess around with the layout without using the grid, the result is this cover which looks more like a book than a magazine, a badly designed book, I went on from this with a bit of a clearer head.
The cover is still far too busy, by this point I was struggling to find a way to fit all four cover stories on the front cover, I eventually realised that this was not to going to happen, the main headline was bothering me too, until I eventually figured out just what to do with it;
Using the Golden Section really helped the layout of the front cover, and whilst I've pruned off a little too much text I felt like I was getting close to a final piece I could be happy with.
The final cover! With a bit more jiggling about of the font and colours, and removing the bottom rectangle to make it look more like a magazine rather than a book, with the combination of Rockwell and Century Gothic finally working well together with the use of only two colours.
I used Rockwell and Century Gothic, as this creates a nice contrast between serif and sans serif fonts, whilst I could have used a more Gothic font for the article on John Heartfield I feel that this would have made it much harder to read, possibly stopping those with sight problems from reading the magazine or even purchasing it in the first place.
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