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Friday, 11 December 2009


This is a double paged spread for the music magazine NME. In this issue of NME the musician featured is Lily Allen, in this double paged spread she explains her 'new image'

Traditionally, one page is seperate from the other. But in this the photo of Lily Allen, her arm goes onto the previous page and the writing spills onto the page with the photo on. This is again, another example of NME breaking and bending the rules. The title is in big bold writing. The style of writing used is known as punk-style of writing. The first band to have used this writing was the Sex Pistols, and other such bands have used the same font. It's very rebelious and arrogent. This is quite the opposite to what every viewed Lily Allen, a ditsy west London girl making quite nice songs. She also used to wear dresses and flowerey clothing and again she is wearing tarten, another punk icon. She is obviously going for a new, punkier look and NME would be the perfect magazine to expose it. Aside from the headline and the photo, the rest of the text is fairly formal. The text is in Times New Roman, a formal font. This contasts very much with the style of the rest of the page, and actually stands out even though the font was made not to stand out. Again, NME has bent the traditional rules of magazines and has got away with it.

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