Analysing College Magazines

Analysing College Magazines

For me to develop my skills in creating magazines, I will first need to analyse existing magazines in order to understand the common conventions and styles used for making a magazine popular to the chosen target audience. Some known theorists have said the following quotes to indicate that being creative involves referring to existing common conventions. I need to abide by this by analysing how to represent information that's relevant to my target audience.

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

'The making of the new and rearranging of the old' (Bentley, 1997)

'Creativity results from the interaction of a system composed in 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' ( Caikazentmihalyi, 1996)