inspiring similar magazines: Cover and Contents

When I started to create my magazine front cover, contents and double page spread I chose another magazine that I was inspired by, of the same genre, to use as a sort of template for my design. I then made my pages similar to the these so that I know my magazine will fit in with the genre it is supposed to.

Mixmag was an inspirational magazine for me due to it relating to my genre and it also has the same sort of colour scheme due to it using black and white and then the two colours.