Magazine Covers

Early Magazine Covers -Where less extravagant and detailed than current common magazines, and where characterized by looking or being the table of contents of the magazine. They simply had the date and name of the magazine, and brief publication information. Earlier magazines didn't even have a cover sometimes. They started a story, or news article right on the from page. Some, as preciously stated, where not covers but a simple table of contents. These early magazine covers evolved into having more pictures and more description, and the latest early magazines, began to illustrate and foreshadow what future contemporary magazine covers would begin to look like.

Poster Magazine Covers -Where highly characterized by having a title and a big picture. These magazines had a large picture cover most of the magazine, and the title was typically printed right on top of the picture not quite as big as most titles are today. The date and publication information was printed in the top corners in significantly small letters. In these magazines the large illustration was the most important factor of the cover because it was bold and stander out, which made readers remember the magazine covers more than previously. The picture illustrated the topic or theme of the magazine, and carried this theme to the viewers and readers. This type of magazine cover is sort of a classic among magazine covers, and is viewed as the original classic format.

Pictures Married To Type -Magazine covers, where a combination of the large bold main picture and the beginning of cover lines. Yes. It is true that cover lines where seen and common earlier in the history of magazines, but not until this type of magazine cover came to be, where they significantly important and significant to magazine covers. These magazines featured the large image, the title (which became bigger than in poster covers), and these cover lines which drew the readers into the contents of the magazine, which wasn't really done (or not in the same way) previously before. These covers began to play around and use technical skills. They where no longer just pictures, titles, and cover lines. They began to transform into a form of art, a form of decor, of placing and positioning words shapes, pictures, and colors and backgrounds into the perfect way to create an appealing cover.

In the Forrest words -Magazine covers where a form of revolution in the history of magazines. These new magazine covers completely changed and transformed magazine covers into an intense combination of creative images and bold, big, creative cover lines. Cover lines in these magazines where more intents and more important than in previous magazine covers. In this cover format both cover lines and pictures became equally (or closely) important. More information is reveled in the cover lines of these magazines, and the design of these covers is much more flexible than previously.