Deconstruction of existing product

This is the 'Peppa Pig' magazine which we decided to look at as a style model for our Magazine Cover ancillary product piece. We like the art style and themes of it and it proved to be a successful magazine within our target audience. Some of the components and features that we picked up on are;

The Title Logo; It is placed, as is conventional in the top centre of the magazine taking up roughly a quater of the height of the piece.
Colour patches; Colour patches of a set theme and style create the boundaries and dividers on the page. We liked this design feature and plan to use it in our own.
Additional Toy placement; One of the issues we talked about within our focus groups was the placement of the toy and wether it conflicted with any part of the design on the page. As with this example we decided to not let the external toy interfere with the design of the page.
Footer; From this example we took influences for the size and design of the footer in our design. Although we did feel that on this specific example it takes up marginally more space than we felt necessary.
Activity fluff; The advertising of activities that are inside are a main component for using the space in most magazine designs and is something we must include in our own design.