Shutterbug Table of Contents Analysis

Within 3 separate issues of the Shutterbug magazine I actually found it quite difficult to find the table of contents. Though it is towards the beginning it is not exactly at the beginning and instead begins at Page 8 and ends at page 10. I also took notice of the fact that the table of contents are all on the left pages and the pages adjacent to them are what seem to be reviews of products or descriptions of
products. On the second page of the table of contents there is also a description of the cover shot in form of a "Editors Notes" section right below. On the first page of the table of contents there are three sections each labeled "Tools" a Camera section that is sometimes categorized in another name such as "Camera Review" or "Camera and Lens Review", and another section labeled "Techniques". Within each table of contents for each spread images are used sparingly, which are also labeled to show what page they can be found in.

On the second page of the table of contents (page 10) there are 3 more sections: Creativity, Departments, and Reader Services. Each section contains a title of another section within the magazine and the pages they can be found in. This exemplifies the fact that shutterbug keeps a very organized profile and it is evident with how their table of contents are set up.

Shutterbug follows a very streamlined and organized template that they seemed to have perfected. I would like to follow a similar scheme for my magazine as I want to keep it as streamlines as possible so the content is kept as unencumbered as possible.