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I've done my research on both Women's Lifestyle magazines as well as food magazines, but I am struggling with my choice. 

Food magazines have many different ways to go and branch off of but they need very specific information and descriptions, and everything has to be hand made, which may be difficult. The Layout is very different for woman weekly, as you can see on this website showing the best food magazines. https://www.thespruce.com/magazines-food-lovers-1666019 The main pictures are usually central and taken from an arial view (the top) with simple words around it and no other peaks into the magazine.

Women's Magazines are filled with much more information like People Magazine, where the magazine has a main story, which usually centralizes around the cover image, follow by many other  little stories. This factor makes the magazine very easy for women relate to. http://www.magazinedesigning.com/55-best-tips-for-a-sucessful-magazine-cover/  As you can see this link shows t6he use of numbers and a main model looking directly at the audience with a clear easy to read font for the words.

Hopefully by my next blog post I will know which genre to gravitate towards. I am thinking about making a post dedicated to the pros and cons of each genre, so that will hopefully be posted tomorrow. Stay tuned. 

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