Researching for house styles

I had a look at a selection of NME special edition covers to see what they've done and how they altered their house style.

Here they have used a grey background and used a pink colour scheme which is highlighted from her pink lips. Blue is used in her outfit as a contrasting colour.

 This cover is more edgy. The blue in her jacket is faded into the background however they have estabished their usual colour scheme of red from picking it off her lips and t-shirt. The other text is a combination of white and black
 This is a very interesting idea. The have an extreame close up which fills the entire page. The colour scheme in here is again, red, white and black however, the house style colour on the title is replaced to white suggesting her red hair has taken the rest of the colour away from the text. The white could also match the paleness in her face and the plain, white t-shirt.
 Finally we have another similar cover in terms of how they establish a house style. Again the grey background is very popular for special edition covers and use of black and white text. The main text (title and anchoring) is coloured to match the blue cup. This is a very effective use of props. Her clothes are also grey and seem to fade into background so the main focus is on the strong blue colours.

What I've learnt from here is that NME heavily relies on the use of mis-en-scene/props to establish their house style. In thier special edition covers they have only the one main colour and then black and white for puffs.