#17-Reflection #1

    The central image is the background of each page, which may or may not challenge the idea of having them in the foreground vs background, and mastheads are less cohesive than they could be due to the wide variety of topics portrayable in meteorology. There is no puff or puffery of any kind, as the scientific nature of the information in Weather or Not is meant to be factual and disregard opinion to be as factual as possible. Pugs and ads are exempted because this magazine is not meant to be promotional; rather informational with a professional facade that makes it distinctly different from other magazines. Conventions are mostly challenged by the color and lack of clutter in this magazine's design that most magazines don't have, most evident in the cover and the visibility of the vivid background imagery. One social issues are challenged in this magazine, as no other humans than myself worked on it, and the information, while being from a scientific area, only references the gradual unnatural warming of the globe once.

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