Really dull designs.. try using warmer colours with bigger contrast, unique shapes for the background or maybe add some images for the background and just make them transparent so they are not that much noticeable, but at the same time to show some work done on the background. The text alignment and all is really bad too, I don't know what happened to the page reviews before every publication, but was this at the time I was in the team, no page was going to pass the reviews.
(Except the Photography, the photos make up for everything)