I have decided to alter my previous flat plans and base my front cover off the NME style as I feel it is closest to the style I want for my magazine because it manages to be slightly quirky with its alternating fonts yet still looks neat on the page and is eye catching to the audience with the contrasting red, black and white colour palette- which in fairness I was already using so this just reinforces my use of it as I have evidence of it being a common convention of a magazine front cover of a well established publisher.
My new flat plan looks like this:
