Vibe Sunderland magazine Regional magazine analysis

Vibe Sunderland magazine Regional magazine analysis

Front Page


When you look at the magazine front page you get the impression that its a family magazine by the images and the articles that are shown. The main image here takes up most of the page with the articles anchoring around the images nicely. I would say that the image is not as sharp as some of the other images that ive I have seen on over magazines. 

In the masthead ''vibe'' they have put the word ''Sunderland'' in orange which stands out against the white text but also shows it regional identity of this magazine which I thought was clever. this is also shown in the slogan ''if it's on it's on- the sunderland magazine'' 

Get a sense that this is themed around christmas with page furniture next to the masthead saying ''christmas 2014'' and articles like ''a wonderful christmas time.....santa on his way'' 

2nd Page+3rd Page

With this magazine the 2nd and 3rd pages are like a double page spread which is a cool idea as it allows the magazine to have a very good strong image as the background over the two pages which is shown here. 

On one page we have the editor letter by Rob Lawson and on the other page we have the contents which is essentially a list of all the articles that are present in the magazine and neatly next to this is 4 images which are relevant to the articles in the magazine. I like how at the bottom of the page they have nice page furniture which makes the pages look more professional. They also have links to there web-sights and social media IE: Facebook and Twitter to allow the reader to contact them if need be or find out more information about certain articles. in the top corner they have a nice logo of the magazine which adds a nice touch and again makes the whole thing look more professional. 


4th Page

First article of the magazine and they have split the page up into two halves the top half for pictures and the header of the article ''christmas in sunderland'' and the bottom half is for the article it self which is 3 columns. what I like here is that for the quotes that they have put within the article they have sectioned them up having page furniture around them which makes the article look neater and easy to read.