Sourcing my two magazines for Tuesday's Type and Grid session with Lorenzo- a high end magazine with a feature on recipes, and a more low-end, cheaper magazine with a feature on recipes...
A feature from home, living and the arts magazine, 'Oh Comely' issue five, March/April 2011.
A reasonably new and refreshing London-based publication, 'Oh Comely' has a youthful and independent feel- consistently generating witty and light-hearted articles with a wholesome and homely feel.
This article based on porridge recipes around the world is laid out in a very crisp and clean-cut style, with lots of minimal space and set grid structure ensuring that the magazine looks chic and stylish- also very well composed photographs, with a good source of light- ensuring that the magazine looks of very high quality.
This recipe for cauliflower cheese and bacon "the comeback of comfort food" is from "celebrity & style" magazine 'Now', the issue from 14th March 2011- when not sold as a multipack (as this issue was) the magazine costs £1.40- £2.60 cheaper than the magazine 'Oh Comely' (as featured above), meaning that the low-cost that the magazine prodives needs to be subsidised by advertisements- as shown above. Although this is not one of the most extreme "low end" magazines, this shows the aesthetic differences caused by lower costs- cramming the magazine with information and detail- not clean and crisp like 'Oh Comely'- therefore producing something that is a lot less inviting to read, as your eye manically darts across the page, with the only direction of focus being hierarchical text, pt sizes, colours, etc.
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