I have always loved magazines. I have an actual magazine addiction!

Whenever I go shopping a trip to WHSmiths always happens. As sad as it sounds I love looking at magazines!

I think the love stemmed from childhood! – Whenever my Mum went food shopping on a Friday I would help her just so I earned my reward of buying one of my fave magazines! It was either Twinkle or Girl talk.

Twinkle was a girly comic magazine, I loved the girly illustrations.. weirdly enough at that age I remember loving the smell and feel of the paper it was printed on! 😀 and most of all I also secretly loved the free gifts! ;p

Girl Talk was a more grown up magazine. I loved the comic strip style of stories they had in there but they used real people in photographs for the stories. It was filled with stories, articles, hair and beauty, fashion and art. I loved it! I picked up my first copy aged 7 and a bit when my Dad took me up town for the day.. my mum would never have let me buy “grown up” magazines but she was bed ridden with pregnancy sickness with my sister and my Dad being clueless didn’t know the difference! ha!

Then after that came Mizz and Shout and Smash Hits and Top of the Pops.. I was a teenager by then and at that point the only things that mainly interested me were the centre topless posters of the latest celeb hotty and the hair and beauty articles to make your crush fancy you!

I bought my first copy of Cosmopolitan in my first year of college. We had to look at advertisements for one of our assignments and my friend Bex bought a copy which I was looking at. Cosmo was really expensive for me back then, I had a Saturday job but I really couldn’t justify a fiver on a magazine! I twisted my mums arm (I think she was worried I was buying it for the sex advice buy hey!..) and from that day on I have been a non-recovering magazine addict!

Since starting this course however I now pay more attention than ever to the layouts, typography, images used, slogans, headings, colours…

This is where I have decided just for fun to make some “fake” news. Practise my skills while designing fake magazine articles. Hopefully as I progress I will see improvement and progress!