Page furniture analysis

Page furniture
In my recent post about how to establish house style I mentioned the idea of layout and design elements contributing to the establishment of a house style and it is these design elements that make up page furniture. I studied an issue of NME in order to find some examples of page furniture/design elements.                                                                

This example shows NME's idea of highlighting their sections titles with a coloured box. This design element allows the magazine to put more emphasis on each specific section and make the title stands out better, also by making each sections title a different box colour it just simply becomes more easy on the eye to the reader and a bit more exciting. These boxes are used throughout and therefore contribute to establishing a house style as they are used to highlight every title for every separate section.  

Another design element that NME has introduced throughout their interview articles is the idea of underlining the pull quotes. The idea of pull quotes is to highlight a specific quote that the artist being interviewed has made as it may be important or incredibly interesting for the reader to see. By underlining it that simply adds to the emphasis of the pull quote and allows the reader to determine that this pull quote is important in terms of the articles meaning.  

 One last thing that I discovered during my research into NME's page furniture is their way they present the page numbers. On almost every page the page number is presented like this one with a triangle around it located in the middle far left or right of the page. This is just a gimmicky twist on the usual mundane way of presenting the page numbers in the bottom corner of the page. By changing this small design element it simply allows the magazine to come across as more new and stylish which would appeal to their young target audience. This yet again contributes to the house style as it appears frequently throughout every issue.

After doing this research I have a much better idea of how to use page furniture in order to make my magazine look more professional and also how to link it throughout my pages.