Final Magazine Cover

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Magazine Covers.

1. Early Magazine Covers

The Town and Country Magazine

1788

the oldest magazines didn't have covers like we think. on the opening page they just had a title and a table of content

2. The Poster Cover

The Munsey's

1898

the cover was a painting of some soldiers riding on horses going into the battle of cuba

3. Pictures Married to Type

McClure's

1898
there cover was a poster cover that stood for the american freedom on the day of July 4th

4. In the Forest of Words

Guitar World

1992

by the 1990s cover art was just as important  as the cover stories and some of the cover lines were bigger then the name of the magazine

My favorite cover

The editors’ description of the cover : "Doing what they do may seem extreme enough, but to photograph Yosemite climbers, including Alex Honnold edging face-out along the Thank God Ledge on Half Dome (because ‘it's cooler that way’), is another whole ball of equipment. Photographer Jimmy Chin, who makes a living creating images of climbers all over the world, said: ‘At the end of the day, if I got one photo that I felt truly captured Yosemite climbing, that would make me happy.’ He got one—and it landed on the cover of National Geographicin May 2011."

this photo made the photographer happy that he got it because the guy was climbing over what they call the thank god ledge. it shows a lot of people that if he can do this you can do something your afraid of. I'm pretty sure he had nerves before he did this.

magazine tips

1. Familiar recognition from issue to issue 

2. It lacks scale because it is isolated in its own magic electronic world, so you have nothing real to compare it to. You can only guess at type sizes and hope they’re ok.
3. Arousing curiosity 

4. Instead, ask the designer to print out all the alternates as hard copy, trim them accurately to magazine size and glue them onto old issues, so you can see them as close to the real thing as possible. Now, toss them on a tabletop, so they flop around and overlap like real magazines do.

5. Efficient, fast, easy to scan 

best covers of 2012

1.People environment
2.People formal
3.Sports illustrated formal
4.Espn formal
5.New york formal
6.National Geographic formal
7.Bloomberg Businessweek formal
8.Time out chicago formal
9.GQ formal
10.Parade formal
11.GQ formal
12.People formal
13.Vanity fair formal
14.National geographic environment
15.Sports illustrated non-formal
16.Departures formal
17.W formal

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