Magazine+Cover+Assignment



1. Choose a magazine cover from Life and from Vogue. Download both cover images and place on your wiki.

2. What do both of the covers have in common? Both these cover girls used the same, which is turn their faces back to the camera. Also, they used a simple colour for the background to make them stand out.

3. What is the main story in that issue and how does it relate to the image on the cover? In the Life magazine, the main story is about jet-setting photo with the famous star Avatar. It published on December 16th,2009. In the Vogue magazine, the main story is about how the well-knowing actress, Angelina Jolie, raise six children. It also introduced the fashion information. It published on December.

4. What design principles are evident in the cover image? Explain They used the strong contrast of colour. In the Life magazine, it uesd a white background to make a contrast with the cover girl with dark skin and the red dress. In the Vogue magazine, it used a blue background to make contrast with the cover girl with bright skin and the white, black dress. Also, they both used balance. The cover girls stand in the middle of the cover.

**The Evolution of the Magazine Cover**

5. What were some charateristics of early magazine covers? The early magazine covers usually use single and simple colour. It provides only a title and clear publication data. Don't have many story line titles to attract readers.

6. What are some characteristics of the poster cover? The poster magazine covers use many sharp, vivid colour and provides many story line titles to attract readers.The poster cover in a slightly looser way, to include covers on which the logo intrudes upon the art, and covers that, in addition to the cover art, contain a small cover line announcing the theme, or even an unobtrusive group of cover lines that are vastly overshadowed by the art.

7. What is the purpose of cover lines? Cover lines began to appear within such generic covers in the later 1800s. The top of the magazine makes the modestly startling announcement of one of the topics to be found inside.It also draw readers inside in a more definite way than the cover.

8. What is an "integrated" cover? The cover which is harmoniously combines a photo and cover lines.

9. How can the placement of cover lines effect the overall design of a cover? There is a primary and a secondary set of cover lines. The primary set consists of the list starting with Robert Hichens (and including, incidentally, famous magazine illustrator James Montgomery Flagg, who created Uncle Sam -- featured the way Richard Avedon might be featured on a cover in the 1990s), and the large, effective secondary cover line appears at the bottom of the picture, in contrasting type and color.

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10. Describe the following 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: Another solution, which has appeared in many forms over the decades, is to create a colored vertical column for cover lines alone. Zones: The "zoning" method appeared in many kinds of magazines; for example, a 1937 //College Humor,// which sported a large humorous illustration and extensive cover lines in a separate zone at the bottom of the cover. 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 Spaces is useful to distinguish several ways of placing text inside a cover picture. In the simplest approach, text might be described as being fitted into spaces that seem almost accidentally left blank by the illustrator. Planned Spaces : This unusual //Post// cover modified a billboard in the back of a crowd scene to create a space for its cover lines. (The //Post,// however, soon became a poster magazine, where cover lines were pressed to the bottom or edge of the illustration.)

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A good collection of images. Some photoshop problems with background cutting. BE sure to zoom right in and delete any image elements you don't need.

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