Magazine+Cover

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1. Choose two Time magazine covers. Record the URL and the issue date. 2. What do both of the covers have in common? 3. What is the main story in that issue and how does it relate to the image on the cover? 4. What design principles are evident in the cover image? Explain

The Evolution of the Magazine Cover 5. What were some characteristics of early magazine covers? 6. What are some characteristics of the poster cover? 7. What is the purpose of cover lines? 8. What is an "integrated" cover? 9. How can the placement of cover lines effect the overall design of a cover? 10. Describe the following styles of cover lines:

Outside the box Inside the box Columns Zones Banners and Corners Unplanned and Planned Spaces

﻿1. a. JAPAN MELTDOWN - MARCH 28., 2011  b. THE TRAGEDY OF DETROIT- OCTOBER., 2009

2. Both of the covers have same content, those are related to the results of disaster.

3.It is trying to warn the human being that disaster is horrible and unpredictable. It causes people lost their family, property etc. EVEN NEVER COME BACK ! Also, it shows the readers how a great city fell. A really big changing. The picture, which is in the cover related to the main stories, it show the situation after the disaster.

4. In ' THE TRAGEDY OF DETROIT', direction are evident in the cover. The readers can see a long straight road and it looks like no ending.  In 'JAPAN MELTDOWN', depth and field are evident in the cover. The photographer closes up to the woman who is crying in the picture. It makes the readers focus on the woman. The background did show the result for the disaster.

5. There were always had simply or one image. It was more conservative and monopoly. The color for those cover were simply and common. There were seldom crazy or colorful images were applied in early magazine cover.

6. Poster covers have just few cover lines, and such cover lines are strongly overshadowed by the illustration.

7. The magazine cover lines are essential part of selling magazines and catch the readers eyes. The cover lines make us that we will pick up the magazines.

8. A cover with a big and striking photograph and a devised use of color.

9. If the cover lines have same color as a magazine's photo, the readers cannot read the cover lines.

10. Out side the bo**x** - 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.

<span style="color: #ff0030; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In side 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.

<span style="color: #ff0030; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">columns - Which has appeared in many forms over the decades, is to create a colored vertical column for cover lines alone. Most magazines placed the column of cover lines on the left or right border.

<span style="color: #ff0030; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Zones - 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.

<span style="color: #ff0030; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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.

<span style="color: #ff0030; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Unplanned and Planned spaces <span style="color: #ff0030; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Unplanned spaces - It 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. <span style="color: #ff0030; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">planned spaces - Illustrators found many ways to design spaces for cover lines.



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