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.