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Like Disclosure, artists such as Kid Cudi & Dan Black and Calvin Harris produce music in the same genre. I thought it would be useful to see magazine covers featuring these 'dance' music artists. Their resemblance resemblance is significant because Calvin Harris features is the same magazine as my artist Disclosure suggesting that they're similar music artists. Dan Black and Kid Cudi feature in Billboard, another popular magazine just like mixmag; each of the images look quite edgy and cool  which reflects the artists images. 

I can look at these images on the front pages to influence my front page image on my magazine. I have noticed that it is common to use an MCU on the front page of a magazine as 2 out of 3 of these covers show. The colour scheme on these magazines is also inspiring because the magazine's choose huge contrasts i.e. grey and yellow. I can think about this when constructing my front page. Also, there are other generic conventions I can include such as a bar code, big text, different styles of font.
All of these artists are similar to my artist so I want to keep the same sort of artist image and likeness - they all look quite cool.