Magazine+Cover



http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20040823,00.html http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20010723,00.html

August 23 2004 July 23 2001

1. Both of the magazine covers are similar because both portrays a picture of an animal, they have vivid uses of colour, and both of the covers have important articles that makes me want to read the magazines. 2. The main story in the cat magazine is talking about saving the big cats, it relates to the image on the cover because the covers shows a lion talking up the entire frame of the magazine therefore making the article about saving cats important. The main story in the ape magazine is how apes have made an evolutionary leap, it relates to the image on the cover because the cover shows an ape therefore showing that the main story is about apes. 3. On the cat cover the design principles that are evident are up close because the cat is taking up the entire frame, and colour contrast because of the different colours on the cat. On the ape cover the design principles that are evident are framing because of the leaves framing the ape and colour contrast because of the dark colour on the ape while there is a pop of green from the leaves.


 * The evolution of the magazine cover**

1. The characteristics of early magazine covers are they were very simple, black and white, most showed a picture of a person and they had a different design than modern day magazines. 2. Some characteristics of the poster cover are it has a picture suitable for framing and has very few cover lines 3. The purpose of cover lines are to intrigue the reader into wanting to read the magazine 4. An integrated cover is a cover where the cover lines are touching the picture and they compliment each other 5. The placement of cover line can affect the overall design because if the cover lines were all in one place then it would not look balanced, the cover lines need to be placed in the right place in order for the cover to look balanced.


 * Cover lines**


 * Outside the box**: is the simplest method for combining pictures with cover lines to keep them in separate areas of the covers, it contains a box with a the title, another box contained with the picture, a third box contained with cover lines or other publication data. It keeps text and pictures separate simplifying the printing process and it eliminates the difficulties that can arise from printing type over a picture.

**Inside the box**: are boxes inside an illustration, into which type can be placed


 * Columns**: - most magazines placed the column of cover lines on the left or right border
 * any magazine that used cover lines could adopt the text-column approach for a single issue now and then

magazines have used considerable ingenuity in creating a column on their covers || -consists of a logo, picture, and cover lines, each in a separate, horizontal zone on the cover is a method that greatly simplifies the requirements for photography and is still used in trade magazines produced by inexperienced staffs.
 * Zones**: is cover format that regularly is featured in a column of cover lines.


 * 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

-**Planned:** are spaces especially for the display of cover lines, on elements inside the illustrations--such as walls, sails, columns, doorways, open windows, and other uniformly colored spaces against which type could be placed.
 * Unplanned and planned spaces:**
 * -Unplanned:** text might be described as being fitted into spaces that seem almost accidentally left blank by the illustrator.

