Magazine+Cover

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?

These two magazines just use some simple colour on it. The cover just full of one model and the model's name is appear at the cover. Their design principles are similar.

3. What is the main story in that issue and how does it relate to the image on the cover?

In the Vogue magazine ,the main story is about Beyonce 's life and how to be fasion ,so they use Beyonce's photo as the cover because she is a fasion person. In the Life magazine, the main story is about interplanetary, they use Monroe's photo as cover because she is also a new star at the Hollywood.

4. What design principles are evident in the cover image? Explain

In the Vogue magazine and the Life magazine,both the design principles are simple (Because just one model and without anything else) .They use triangle (Because the model's body form a triangle and their arm forms a triangle,too.) They also use the strong contrast of colour. (The cloth's colour with the background's colour.)

5. What were some charateristics of early magazine covers?

Providing only a title and publication data. There were no descriptive words indicating what would be found inside the magazine.Shows a centered, formal balance and book-like layout, with a small illustration that appears to have a decorative purpose, rather than to illustrate the contents.

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. 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?

Art and type have achieved a symbiotic, mutually supportive relationship.

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: 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//.//
 * Outside the box
 * Inside the box

Is to create a colored vertical column for cover lines alone. logo, picture, and cover lines, each in a separate, horizontal zone on the cover.
 * Columns
 * Zones

Banners seem to belong to attention-grabbing "loud" covers, and have been used little, or in restrained ways, by successful, mainstream publications
 * Banners and Corners

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. 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.
 * Unplanned and Planned Space

My own magazine cove