This document compares the cover designs of two magazines - Little White Lies and Total Film. Little White Lies has a simplistic, minimalist design featuring an abstract Superman image to appeal to artistic readers. In contrast, Total Film has a cluttered design full of advertisements. The document also notes that Little White Lies consistently places its recognizable masthead logo in the center of covers, while Total Film's logo is sometimes partially obscured.

1. This cover has a simplistic design
compared to the Total Film cover, the
Total Film cover is cluttered and full
of advertisements trying to draw the
reader in to buy their magazine and a
lot of the time that work, but Little
White Lies has gone for a simplistic
design to appeal to more artistic
people, both magazines have
different target audiences, hence the
different designs.
The main cover-line on this
cover is completely different
to the one which is on the
Total Film one, this one is
small but as the
background is matte black
it stands out and looks a lot
more neat a sophisticated.
The Total Film main cover-line was very
cluttered and a lot bigger.
The Little White Lies masthead is always the
same on all issues, it is in the center in a circle
with the barcode on it, what
theyʼve done is taken the
most unattractive part of
the cover and stuck it in
the logo so thereʼs more
room on it for the amazing
design they have. This
logo is well recognized by
many people, especially big
fans
of the magazine so it makes
sense for them to make it noticeable and easy
to see and consistent, on the Total Film cover
Superman was covering a lot of the logo,
almost half of it whereas on this one he is only
covering a small part of it, this is because the
cover is less crowded and they have gone for
a simplistic design over a cluttered one which
appeals to the target audience.
This magazine has an artistic design and
direction, on the cover is a design of
Superman, it is an abstract
design which appeals to the
target audience, whereas the
Total Film cover has an
image probably from a photo
shoot or a still from the film,
which is more for the regular
consumer.