'XXL' magazine is another magazine I will be researching on. The front cover is of a successful artist

Kanye West.

The magazine cover has a unique design in which at the middle of the page, it is repeated but upside down. Reasons for this may be because in the middle, it says 'Love' and upside down 'Hate'. Also, there is a caption near him saying 'The exclusive story by the man himself' which could represent the love hate relationship and by saying 'The man himself' would give the report a mysterious feeling which would attract the reader even more, would they be interviewing West or someone else?

The colour scheme of this magazine is red, black and white. It focuses more on the black and white which would also represent the 'Love' and 'Hate' as black and white are opposite tones. The red is only based on the magazine's headmast to emphasise the actual magazine itself, 'XXL'.

West's picture is made black and white to go with the colour scheme and to also give it a cool, smart and professional look as if this magazine has class. His facial expression is also rather straight with hints of aggression which is seen in a lot of other XXL magazine covers.

Underneath the headmast, it also says 'Special Collector's Issue' which could also be a relation to the edits made in the picture, because this magazine looks so crisp and unique it would be classed as a special collector's edition.

Overall, the magazine is extremely simple, I think the design was like this because it shows class, importance, focus and specialty.