Magazine Cover Types

Cover Types

1. Early Magazine Covers
-had a little cute painting as the cover
-often they included ethics, orals.

2. The Poster Cover
-very few words
-and design to put out the photo
- the photo is the most dominant peace.
-it is visually appealing
-in general they would have a page photo
- in a poster magazine cover, you might want it to be a really good photo, and a photo that everybody knows.
Disadvantages: its boring, it doesn't tell you of whats inside your magazine, pick a really good picture


3. Pictures Married To Type
-first the words don't cover the most important things of the photo
-the words relate directly to the words on the cover,
-they work together and they help out each other out
Disadvantages: it might not be visually appealing enough to the massives

4. In the Forest of Words
-lots and lots of words
-organized in head lines and subheadlines
-the headlines are different sizes, and different color, different fonts,
-one majar and photo and one minor photo.
-The picture is the most important than the other elements
-it has multple points of entry
Disadvantages:
-cluttery
-it takes away from the photo from behind it.




Stuff that should be on my magazine cover:
-title
-photo
-date
-price