Magazine+Cover




 * Have in Common:**

They both have women, and celebrities on the cover. Both of their titles are capital letters and are in bold. It includes the name of the person on the magazine, the date it was published, and the price.


 * Main Story of the Covers:**

"Life" Magazine- is not known until the reader looks inside and reads it, but it is clear that the content will be about Elizabeth Taylor, probably her life story and photos. Relating to the old photo on the cover.

"Vogue" Magazine- says it on the cover that it's mainly about Emma Watson and her life after Harry Potter though it also includes; inside the most glamorous party for the year with other celebrities, the must have Fall looks, and beauty news on reversing the body signs of aging, relating to the cover of fall colors and Emma's youth.


 * Design Principles on the Covers:**

"Life" Magazine- simple and single point with just the person in center focus in the main point, and color space of the black and white.

"Vogue" Magazine- depth in the blurred areas in the left side of the photo, color space for the deep red colors and also in use of the text, and a triangle from her ring to the bracelet to her lips.


 * Evolution of the Magazine Cover:**

Characteristics of early magazine covers were a lot more conservative, often very simple with only one (usually drawn/painted) image, nothing was bold with the colour in the early magazine days. They often tended to model them after the covers of books.

Characteristics of the poster covers were that they had few cover lines and they were overshadowed by the illustration or photo.

The Purpose of cover lines is to provide a "hook" that will get them to pick up the magazine and look at it more closely. It should be short and to the point to convey the message.

A integrated cover is a photograph on the cover that is big and striking with a great use of color.

The placement of cover lines can effect the overall design of a cover when the cover lines are the same color as the cover photo, then the reader wouldn't be able to read the cover lines.

References- http://longleaf.net/coverlines/ + looked at various early magazine covers, e.g. "Good Housekeeping"


 * Styles of Cover Lines:**

Outside the Box- The simplest method for combining pictures with cover lines is to keep them in separate areas of the covers, a solution that has proved effective for more than a hundred years.

Inside the Box- Printers faced difficulties in placing text on top of an illustration, unless they made a separate run through the press after the first run was dry.

Columns- appeared in many forms over the decades, is to create a colored vertical column for cover lines alone. Most magazines placed the column of cover lines on the left or right border.

Zones- logo, picture, and cover lines, each in a separate, horizontal zone on the cover. Early magazines tended to place these zones into separate boxes, but later designers eliminated many of the confining and decorative lines on covers

Banners and Corners- banners seem to belong to attention-grabbing "loud" covers, and have been used little, or in restrained ways, by successful, mainstream publications.

Unplanned and Planned Spaces- (Unplanned) it is useful to distinguish several ways of placing text inside a cover picture. For example, the text might be described as being fitted into spaces that seem almost accidentally left blank by the illustrator. (Planned) illustrators found many ways to design spaces for cover lines.