Magazine Design

They’re often related to scrapbooks but they also find a lot of purpose in different spheres of web and print design. And while moodboards and home-made albums are made by hand, the majority of today’s collages can be created with design softwares, like Canva.

Current trends in collage design has lead to the creation of new better tools for building compelling image compositions. This article will guide you though a series of print & digital collage types, classified into 10 main groups.

Your favorite magazines’ websites have also given these publications another opportunity to show off their design chops when it comes to considerations like layouts, proportions, trends and aesthetics. In fact, some magazines’ websites look like an entire team carefully planned out a veritable, virtual layout of a print publication…right on the Internet.

The premier magazine of the music industry and various charts and tracks knows how to grab site visitors’ attention. In its featured articles, the magazine goes huge with a screen-wide mega image, a thick sans serif title, and meaty, long-form content to keep its readers glued to their site, whether that’s on desktop, tablet, or mobile.

Overall, the homepage as a result looks very clean and features well-organized content. Readers enjoy a good user experience by being able to easily skim over the content to find the most important headlines and efficiently click on the stories that are of greatest interest to them.