Newspaper Club Work on design

I have decided to join with a couple of 2nd years from the newspaper club brief to meet every week to discuss our ideas and designs with each other. The idea is that by discussing our ideas together we will be able to generate better design proposals that are more suitable for the brief. We started looking at my colour palette as one of them commented that bright pink can make things look quite cheap and trashy if not used properly. As the whole idea of using pink was that its the cliche colour associated with girls, so I was using it in a kind of sarcastic and ironic tone, I wanted to keep this idea and so we played around with different shades of pink. 

original front cover design

Another thing that I wanted to play around with was the typeface on the front cover of the newspaper. I feel that the original design, for a front cover, was not very attention grabbing and to me it looked really messy and unorganised for some reason.

I was playing around with colours but also with the layout of the newspaper, although at the moment I prefer the current layout of the old newspaper as I think it looks better, however the grey writing did not print well on the newspaper print in my prototype. I like the idea of a square in the back ground to break up the newspaper a bit...maybe it could be something that is used throughout, or pops up on a couple of pages?

Nathan recommended trying to darken the background to a more darker chocolatey colour however I still prefer the original. The chocolate background definitely makes the type stand out in comparison to the old one so I will definitely have to work on the colour however to me the dark brown background just doesn't quite fit. 

Bit more of a play around with the layout of the magazine. The light grey and pink text on the white background in the original when printed is really unreadable. And by incorporating the pink square again it breaks up the page a bit more. I want to look at different ways of displaying the quotes in the newspaper to stop the newspaper being overly text based.