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Magazine Covers

1.Early Magazine covers

Mothers Magazine,1844,This magazine talked about how the reader was the source of everything for their families.The cover has a simple but artistic illustration to "evoke the spirit of the publication".

 2.The Poster Cover 

The Munsey,August,1898,It represents a painting of troops on horseback traveling to Cuba using realism.The cover only has two small lines at the bottom to explain what is happening as you can draw many conclusions from this picture.

3.Pictures Married to Type

Cosmopolitan,1985,the model on the picture is "boxed in" because of all the text boxes surrounding her to her left and right.She even seems a little uncomfortable even though in reality those text boxes aren't actually there.This type of cover began around the mid 1980's as before the picture of the person was usually surrounded with little to no text.

4.In the Forest of words

Guitar World,August 1992,This picture has its text almost coming out of the picture as the title of the magazine is the first thing that you see.You also see guitars so your brain automatically relates everything in this cover to guitar or guitar playing.The cover lines of this magazine are actually larger than the name of the magazine.

My Favorite Cover

 Favorite Cover

The editors’ description of the cover: "Official word of Steve Jobs' death reached Bloomberg Businessweek as the staff of over 40 was finishing a regular issue. They scrapped it and spent all night finalizing this special issue. In choosing a cover, editor Josh Tyrangiel said, ‘what we wanted to find was something that you hadn't seen before, something original, and yet something that had a little bit of tension in it.’ Tyrangiel concludes, ‘I think what we found and the way we cropped it really gets at the complicated, sometimes abrasive genius behind all the products that the world admires.’"

Critique:This cover of this magazine reaches out to a lot of people in a way that people will miss him and the products he would produce with his company,Apple.Many people have Apple products ranging from their iPhones to their expensive but eye catching Macbook laptops. The black and white adds to the effect of you feeling sad about him passing away.It also shows when he was born and when he died which would be the same year if people say this in 2011. Bloomberg Businessweek also did a great job in cropping out half his face which looks really good and you only need to see half of his face to know who he is anyways since he was a huge person in the world of computers and a person many people looked up to.

Best magazine covers 2012

1.New York-Formal
2.Bloomberg BusinessWeek-Formal
3.People-Formal
4.People-Formal
5.Sports Illustrated-Formal
6.ESPN Magazine-Formal
7.Timeout Chicago-Enviromental
8.GQ-Formal
9.Parade-Formal
10.GQ-Formal
11.American Photo-Enviromental
12.People-Formal
13.Vanity Fair-Informal
14.National Geographic-Enviromental
15.Sports Illustrated-Enviromental
16.Departures-Formal
17.W-Formal

Magazine Tips

1.Worth the investment of time and money?
2.Don't judge your cover to what you see on your computer screen as the colors will slightly change
3.Don't judge the size of the cover on screen because your screen is the wrong size so you don't know
4.Make is efficient,fast and easy
5.Familiar recognition

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