Unsuccessful Magazine Design

This a bad example of a double page spread from Reveal Magazine (Issue 42,
20-26 Oct 2007). The page looks too cluttered. It looks like the designer has ran out of space in the magazine and so has placed images and type really close together and overlapping one another to fit more on to the page. Also the text and image box are all different colours and shapes, which I think they have done to make it more eye catching but it makes it harder to read. I didn’t know which part to read first when I first looked at it.
I think it could be improved by positioning the type and images more neatly on the page. I would only use one hue of colour to highlight the type in the background and wouldn’t position the type on different angels, so that the spread flows better.