Analysing Existing Magazines

I am going to analyse two existing college magazine covers and contents pages. This will help me work out the common conventions that I will need to include in my own work to represent the needs of my target audience. These quotes from well known theorists show that creativity is not an instant process but is:

“A process needed for problem solving…not a special gift enjoyed by a few but a common ability possessed by most people”  (Jones, 1993).

“The making of the new and the rearranging of the old” (Bentley, 1997).

“Creativity results from the interaction of a system composed of three elements: a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain, and a field of experts who recognise and validate the innovation” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996).