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20 Magazine Layout Designs for Inspiration

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This post showcases 30 creative and beautifully designed inside pages of magazines. There are some elements that we give importance to when designing the inside pages of a magazine such as the typeface used for headlines, subheadlines and the body, the color palette or combination of colors used, the paragraph style, the folio, the styles applied to images. These are some of the elements that we set in our templates, master pages or style sheets when doing the layout in Adobe Indesign or other desktop publishing programs in order to create a coherent look for a particular publication or magazine from cover to cover.

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We tried to include visually appealing, interesting and creative design solutions just in case you are looking for some inspiration in designing the inside pages of a publication, be it a magazine, an annual report or a book. I hope everybody will find something interesting in this post.

Magazine Layout 01
Modern Design Magazine issue 13, July 2008

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Magazine Layout 02
Dwell Magazine

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Magazine Layout 03
Official U.S. Playstation Magazine

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Magazine Layout 04
MM Magazine

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Magazine Layout 05
Modern Design Magazine issue 13, July 2008

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Magazine Layout 06
MAP Magazine

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Magazine Layout 07
Magazine Spread

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Magazine Layout 08
Life Lounge Magazine

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Magazine Layout 09
Radical Magazine

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Magazine Layout 10
Keeping on Track

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Magazine Layout 11
Change in the Feather

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Magazine Layout 12
Eyes on the Skies

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Magazine Layout 13
Breaking New Ground

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Magazine Layout 14
Berlin Fashion Week, Modern Design Magazine

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Magazine Layout 15
The Carbon Connection

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# 16
Modern Design Magazine, Kumi Yamashita, The Art of Shadows

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#17
Between the ducks…

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# 18
The Oklahoman Review, Issue 001

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# 19
Three Sixty Magazine

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# 20
Editorial Design

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28 Responses to “20 Magazine Layout Designs for Inspiration”

Nora Reed on May 14th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

Nice layouts! Just like any art, magazine layouts have a basic formula. It’s great when artists break the rules and just get as creative as possible.
joyoge designers' bookmark on May 15th, 2009 at 12:49 am

nice mag layouts thanks..
admin on May 15th, 2009 at 6:29 am

@Nora Reed -
I agree with you Nora.
jamak aton habi on June 16th, 2009 at 9:55 am

Nice, so creative! good layout :p
puppet on August 26th, 2009 at 7:51 am

great layouts. creative work
logan on September 5th, 2009 at 3:00 am

you have to remember its not just the layout that makes these work. it’s the pictures. if you notice all of them have great images – how well the layout is received depends mostly upon how well the images work.
admin on September 5th, 2009 at 8:23 am

@logan -
I agree with you logan. Images play an important part of a layout. It can make or unmake the look of a page. Thanks for your opinion.
Atlanta SEO on November 13th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

Interesting article. Where did you got all the information from…
brandontermini on December 2nd, 2009 at 4:11 pm

Thanks for sharing. Perfect examples of great design.
???? ???? on December 6th, 2009 at 6:50 am

thank alot
ala' hikal on December 7th, 2009 at 6:05 am

thanks alot
Rolando S. Bouza on December 7th, 2009 at 6:30 am

Hi!
I can see you have chosen some of my designs foir Modern Design Magazine, that is great! Thanks!

You can see my latest magazine design works here: http://www.behance.net/bouza

Cheers!
admin on December 7th, 2009 at 8:04 am

Thanks… you’re designs are really inspiring! Very useful for designers like me.
karam on January 2nd, 2010 at 7:26 pm

yeah good layouts ,,, im making layouts in my university (graphic design) so they are good inspirations ……..
reeba on January 24th, 2010 at 6:22 pm

these layouts are reallly keewl
bayyou on February 2nd, 2010 at 10:17 am

thanks, superb layout..
Rommel on February 22nd, 2010 at 10:55 am

awesome layouts!!
Henny on March 1st, 2010 at 11:43 am

LOOOOVE themm , haha
xo
gajendra on March 13th, 2010 at 10:10 pm

I am also designer. it is very good design. I likebreaking new ground.
Tiago on March 22nd, 2010 at 7:11 am

You should see this online magazine! http://www.atolmag.com
erwin on March 31st, 2010 at 9:21 am

nice layout, i love design and more 9 years as layouter and graphics designer. You can see my portofolio on my blog http://coretankemarin.blogspot.com maybe inspiring to your design.
graf-x artist on April 4th, 2010 at 8:52 pm

nice lay-outs!! i like it.. add me in your facebook please,
eric on May 5th, 2010 at 2:37 pm

Great magazine layouts. Keep it up! u r an inspiration to many.
Troutsniffer on May 7th, 2010 at 12:14 am

These layouts have really helped me try to think of some new ideas of my own! Thanks for the inspiration!
vasare on May 29th, 2010 at 9:43 pm

love it! thanks for sharing
CuteGeek on July 7th, 2010 at 6:32 pm

oh my its great dueds
Eve on July 22nd, 2010 at 1:10 pm

Thank you to share great inspirations!
Indra on July 26th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

Magazine layout have a basic formula. It’s great when artists break the rules and just get as creative as possible. Nice layouts! thanks.

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