Magazine+Covers

1. What do both of the covers have in common?
Both of the photo focusing on people. They like to use superstar's model to attach reader's attention. They uses similar main colour which is white.

2. What is the main story in that issue and how does it relate to the image on the cover?
The Vogue Cover uses a gorgerous woman to convey fashion. It also relates to the main idea of the magazine which is about fashion and ladies' beauty. The Life Cover uses a pure and nice girl to relate to the main theme of the magazine cover. The magazine cover is about the beauty of winter and snow which similar to the girl wearing a white winter hat and white sweater.

3. What design principles are evident in the cover image? Explain
The first magazine cover uses triangle and color. The color of black lines and white on woman's clothes make a contrast. Woman's arm makes up triangle. The Second magazine cover uses color. The red title, the background of the magazine and the woman's clothes have a comparision.

5. What were some charateristics of early magazine covers?
The earliest magazines did not always have what we think of as covers. Many dedicated the opening page to a title and table of contents. When early magazines used covers, they tended to model them after the covers of books -- providing only a title and publication data. There were no descriptive words indicating what would be found inside the magazine. Cover lines were not only rare in early magazines, many had no covers. By the late 1800's, cover line began to appear. The end of the 19th century found a wide range of magazine covers at play, many of them beginning to work with two questions that would occupy magazine designers for the next hundred years.

6. What are some characteristics of the poster cover?
There are no cover lines, or themes announced, and the image generally is not covered by the logo. Most poster covers between 1890 and 1940 didn't even relate to a story inside the magazine. Rather the poster cover depicted a season or conveyed a general mood.

7. What is the purpose of cover lines?
It can catch reader's attention and tell the reader's what is about inside of the magazine.

8. What is an "integrated" cover?
The cover is illustrated with a single large and striking photograph. Characteristic of the covers of the 1990s, this one uses color in a deliberate, communicative manner. Color communicates a harmonious dynamism that extends the atmosphere created by the photograph.

9. How can the placement of cover lines effect the overall design of a cover?
The cover lines can not cover part of the photography because it is not clear to see the photography for readers. The cover lines can not have the same color as the background of the magazine cover.

10. Describe the following styles of cover lines:
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. 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. To get around this, knockouts were used to create boxes inside an illustration, into which type could be placed//.// Overlapped the color column that held the cover lines, making the cover more of an integrated whole. logo, picture, and cover lines, each in a separate, horizontal zone on the cover. Early magazines tended to place these zones into separate boxes, but later designers eliminated many of the confining and decorative lines on covers Banners seem to belong to attention-grabbing "loud" covers, and have been used little, or in restrained ways, by successful, mainstream publications. In the simplest approach, text might be described as being fitted into spaces that seem almost accidentally left blank by the illustrator. Editors were not bashful about designing illustrations that bestowed a special visual power on certain open spaces--so that cover lines could be placed into those spaces. Many, many illustrations created spaces especially for the display of cover lines,on elements inside the illustrations--such as walls, sails, columns, doorways, open windows, and other uniformly colored spaces against which type could be placed.
 * ==Outside the box==
 * ==Inside the box==
 * ==Columns==
 * ==Zones==
 * ==Banners and Corners==
 * ==Unplanned and Planned Spaces==

Reference:http://longleaf.net/coverlines/#anchor8138900
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