Cover page

Your typography is all over the place.

If you're going to divide it in to rectangular sections like that, which I really wouldn't recommend then at lease fully justify the copy.

Kerning is all over the place, it look like you've stretched the copy in the top left blue box to make it fit, the spacing is appalling, the vertical 'PLUS" title looks bizarre.

The images are poorly positioned and badly cropped, the peach colour on the weak font you've chosen as the headlines will print horribly.

I could go on and on...

Nobody would buy this magazine.
Except perhaps the blind.

... from the existing publication?

I was stunned to find that the masthead is their's, not your's! It's beyond horrible. The existing magazine cover is not so great, but at least there's a sense of hierarchy of information ... not to mention legibility. So, is this a student assignment (high school or college)?
As the previous comment indicated, the typographic skills shown in your work are non-existent. There isn't any indication of design sense either, you've constructed a boxed-in layout but there's no relationship of grid, image and text. It's a mess and looks like it was produced in Powerpoint or Word. :b

Too busy, no hierarchy and horrible fonts. Why grid out the entire cover? Shows you are afraid of balance and don't know the 'rule of thirds'. Try again, this time with less info on the cover.

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Powerpoint is not a design application.

Especially with the name of the publication. It looks horrible and very difficult to read. If you MUST use that pt. size then experiment with different typefaces, as obviously this one isn't working.

suzanne maestri-walters :: graphic designer :: www.onegirlcreative.com

Typography is really bad. Is this addressed to people in their 50s-60s because that typeface looks gigantic. The reverse type in the logo is filling in. The leading and kerning were not even thought through. Look at the shape your paragraphs make. Why on the "Patni" paragraph does the bottom line come out more? Though I should first point out that the header on that one has an orphan on the second line. An orphan, on a header. That's crazy.

Text-- even as body copy, can make or break a design. The shapes that the paragraphs make are just soooo chaotic. You are sending the wrong message on this design cover.

The images are placed weird. There are two right next to eachother that are really conflicting: a dude giving his dog a bath (warm colored) right next to a greek inspired building (very cool colored). It doesn't really make sense.

Why do the sentences on the main sub-header have a capitalized letter at the beginning of every line? That's weird.

I think you need to start over from scratch, sorry. I just think it's really poorly executed and something I would expect to see from an amateur.