Magazine+Cover

Suzy Church and Ryan Durling

1. Choose two Time magazine covers. Record the URL and the issue date. Cover #1: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,03-03-1995,00.html Issue date: March 1 1995 Cover #2: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,22-11-1993,00.html Issue date: November 22 1993 2. What do both of the covers have in common? They are both very simplistic in design. Both of them have very simple colour schemes with plain colours. Also, both are simple pictures and are uncluttered. 3. What is the main story in that issue and how does it relate to the image on the cover? Cover #1:Main story: Cyberspace. Relation to image: The picture is a computer chip, so it relates to the story because it's about computers. Cover #2: Main story: A New Job Climate. Relation to image: The story is about business and jobs and the man in the image is a business man. 4. What design principles are evident in the cover image? Explain Cover #1: Depth: the chips go backward and have a white space in the middle and you can't see where it's going to. Simplicity: There is only one subject. Cover #2: Simplicity: There is only one subject. Rule of thirds: The subject of the photo is in the middle upper part of the image. Triange: There are triangles made by his legs, his arms and his briefcase.

The Evolution of the Magazine Cover 5. What were some charateristics of early magazine covers? Early magazine covers had less writing. From 1890-1920 some magazines used highly segmented covers. 6. What are some characteristics of the poster cover? The older cover has less colour and is more gray. The newer cover has more colour but yet still not as much as some of the covers today. 7. What is the purpose of cover lines? Cover lines help catch the readers eye and make the magazine look more appealing. They make the magazine cover look interesting and visually appealing. Their basic use is to interest people to continue reading the magazine. 8. What is an "integrated" cover? A cover with a large and striking photograph and a large use of colour. 9. How can the placement of cover lines effect the overall design of a cover? If the cover lines are covering any part of the picture then the picture would be hard to see. If the Cover lines are in the same colour as the picture then they will be hard to read and ineffective.

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10. Describe the following styles of cover lines: Outside the box Pictures and images framed inside boxes, with cover lines outside the box and usually at the bottom of the page.

Inside the box Knockouts were used to make text boxes inside an illustration because text was hard to put on top of images.

Columns: Coloured vertical column(s) for only cover lines, and are usually placed on the left or right border.

Zones: Column of cover lines. The logo, picture and cover lines are each in a separate, horizontal zone.

Banners and Corners: Used for attention grabbing and "loud" covers.

Unplanned and Planned Spaces: Unplanned: Text is fit into spaces that the illustrator seems to have accidently left blank. Planned: Combining images with cover lines, and spaces are created for text.

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