Oh Comely Research

                                 

Oh Comely is a lifestyle magazine. Oh Comely is published six times a year, available in over a thousand places in the UK as well internationally.

As quoted by the founder Des Tan:

A magazine made with women in mind, but open and inclusive enough to appeal to men too, Oh Comely targets a reader who wants more than celebrity gossip and orgasm tips (or at least an alternative to them). Devoting itself to the artists, bands and outsiders that it thinks are worth talking about, the result is peaceful and disarming, a magazine that wants you to take your time with it.

Researching the magazine I breezed through a few issues supplied by my teacher Sharon. My first impression

• Contemporary
• Neutral
• Clean
• Simplicity 
• IKEA
• Uniformed

The image below is an article from oh comely, the majority of the articles featured are very similar. The layout is very clean and uniformed and there tends to be some sort of colour scheme throughout each article. A lot of the articles feature collages like the one on the right and the images seem to be in mid key and tend to have a matt finish too and quite flat and vintage. 

I LOVE this magazine and have subscribed. Its fresh and contemporary, easy on the eye, inspiring and pretty! I love the huge variety of subjects featured in this magazine from recipes for sweet potato muffins to family trees! The magazine is very creative and keeps your imagination alive!

I took a couple a snaps of some images used in the features of one of the editions I browsed through. The composition and pov was particularly appealing to me as I was different but drew the viewers eye easily to what the photographer wanted them to see. The article was a feature on stay at home mums and a day in their lives. I thought it was quite clever to take a photograph not of a subject in particular but more specific on what a mum may see, not an object she is looking at. For eg the orange peel image, there is a whole room and other furniture and objects what could have been photographed but the photographer wanted the viewers to see what mum saw....the orange peel left on the chair! The composition of this image works perfectly for that objective in mind, the DOF used almost removes any interruption from the background which is the rest of the room, the table provides just a stand for the peel to proudly sit and say look at me. This images follows suit with the rest of the style throughout the magazine, clean, unsaturated and minimilistic.