Thursday, February 21, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Magazine Covers
Early Magazine Covers-
The earliest of magazine covers looked more like book covers. Very bare
and simple. Title, issue #, publisher. That's all. You would get a
picture on the cover but it usually didn't have text or a headline to
support the picture.
The Poster Cover- This type of cover is just what it sounds like, a poster. The cover of these magazines would simply have just a picture that covered the entire front with no text text except for the title of the magazine itself. The covers often times didn't need text or a headline to accompany the picture. You could tell exactly what the cover was saying just by looking at the picture itself.
Pictures Married to Type- These covers are a lot like that we see today. Big text for the title, a model of some sort on the cover, usually overlapping the title, and cover lines that help complete and/or exaggerate the photograph on the cover. This method is still used today, and help revolutionize magazine covers forever. Text usually wraps around the subject.
In the Forest of Words- These covers have a number of cover lines, often times places around the model on the cover to make it look at if they posed purposely for the cover lines to surround them. The cover lines are sometimes bigger than the actual names of the magazine itself, and have a different font, and vibrant colors to help give the cover lines more attention. Text tends to overlap the subject on the cover. We see this type of cover everyday as well, typically used far more often than the "Pictures Married to Type" covers.
The Poster Cover- This type of cover is just what it sounds like, a poster. The cover of these magazines would simply have just a picture that covered the entire front with no text text except for the title of the magazine itself. The covers often times didn't need text or a headline to accompany the picture. You could tell exactly what the cover was saying just by looking at the picture itself.
Pictures Married to Type- These covers are a lot like that we see today. Big text for the title, a model of some sort on the cover, usually overlapping the title, and cover lines that help complete and/or exaggerate the photograph on the cover. This method is still used today, and help revolutionize magazine covers forever. Text usually wraps around the subject.
In the Forest of Words- These covers have a number of cover lines, often times places around the model on the cover to make it look at if they posed purposely for the cover lines to surround them. The cover lines are sometimes bigger than the actual names of the magazine itself, and have a different font, and vibrant colors to help give the cover lines more attention. Text tends to overlap the subject on the cover. We see this type of cover everyday as well, typically used far more often than the "Pictures Married to Type" covers.
Monday, February 4, 2013
my favorite cover
FavoriteFinalist
Sports Illustrated, Winter 2011: "Swimsuit 2011"
(Photograph by Bjorn Iooss)
Landing on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition makes supermodels into pop culture icons. Such was the case this year for Irina Shayk, a Russian beauty whose bronze skin and green eyes have made her a Swimsuit regular since 2007. Credit must also be given to photographer Bjorn Iooss, who snapped the cover photo with the first-ever Sports Illustrated shoot. Iooss' cover shot came one year after his father, Walter Jr., snapped his eleventh Swimsuit cover.
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