The first magazine I chose is The Siren magazine. This magazine is a feminist magazine created at the University of Oregon. The content of this magazine includes topics like art, love, and anti-violence and how they relate to feminism. In addition to this, they also create issues of the magazine about intersectionality, for example their latest issue was about people of the LGBT community.
The technical and design elements I noticed are:
- color scheme throughout the magazine whether it be in cover image, page color, text, or illustrations
- quote relating to the topic of the issue
LGBT issue
Love issue 
Art issue- cover image is often very colorful and the font used for masthead is a very straight font
- there is also an absence of cover lines in many issues of the magazine
- includes topic of issue
- the table of contents is often really simple
- some have pictures, some don't
- within the magazine they have stories with pages with only text and then some with only pictures
I really like the use of color schemes within the magazine and its something I might consider using in my magazine. I also really like the font they used for the masthead because typically women's magazines have a very delicate, curly font, but the straight bold font makes a much more powerful statement. the idea I. have for my magazine is to do an empowering magazine about women in work places and the different issues will be different jobs. The job I want to do my project on is women in theatre. I definitely want to include the topic of the issue on the cover. For my magazine, I want to do a much more engaging table of contents than The Siren by including more visually interesting pictures.
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