The Big Issue

The Big Issue does not follow a house style as faithfully as more mainstream magazines, making it unusual in its media language. Layout varies from one edition to the next, as the Lego cover is not cluttered with only one cover line whereas the Romesh cover seems cluttered with many cover lines around Romesh's head, yet his picture stays the focus of the cover. The masthead migrates across the top of the page from top left (Lego) to centralised (Romesh) to top right ,in other editions.

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