Magazine Cover NOTES

Cover Types:

1. Early Magazine Covers 

•  No photo
• Mainly paintings or drawings
• Big color spots, big areas of colors
• No date line, price tag, barcode
• Simple
• Subjects are mostly ethical related such as church, life, nature.

     2.  The Poster Cover

• Small words/not much texts
• No barcode (Some do and some don't)
• Plain
• Date
• Price 
• Just a photograph and a title basically
• Great photo 
• Disadvantage: photo has to be good or people won't buy it

  
     3.  Pictures Married to Type

•  Less words/texts
• Words are mostly on one side/corner
• Words are wrapped around subject 
• Text is involved(engaged) in the photo. (inside the photo) 
• Words go along with the topic
• Disadvantage:  a little boring, not much to spark people's interests, not as many entry points 

      4.  In the Forest of Words

• A lot of words are all over the place
• different subjects, fonts, sizes, colors
•  Disadvantage: distracting & sometimes you don't see the full photograph

Stuff that should be in my magazine cover: 

• A title
• Photograph
• Bar code
• Price
• Date line