Magazine+Cover

The purpose of cover lines were to give general idea of whole story of magazine. By putting interesting and important picture as a cover, author gain interest easier.

1. History of Life Magazine The Life Magazine first published in 1883. Henry Luce bought the magazine company in 1936. A weekly until December 1972, then in semiannual special reports, and since 1978 as a monthly, Life Magazine has been the publication that has chronicled and provoked America's passions, the publication said to bear the magazine world's most famous logo. Most of the post covers were used in early time. Some picture has realistic image but some don't contain realistic picture. These are the pictures from 1883 to 1936.

These are the pictures from 1936.

In early 1936 picture's color was black. Later cover became more colorful and detail.

2. History of Vogue Magazine

Arthur Baldwin Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in USA in 1892. Conde Montrose Nast charged Vogue when founder died in 1909. New owner changed it to a bi-weekly magazine and also started Vogue overseas in the 1910s. As like as LIFE's poster cover, Vogue's poster covers were used in early time. In poster, female picture were drawn mostly.

The pictures before 1960

In 1960s, with Diana Vreeland, the magazine began to appeal to the youth of the sexual revolution by focusing more on contemporary fashion and editorial features openly discussing sexuality. most cover images are picture of women.

Step 1

picture from Vogue.

Backgoround is white and this cover is very simple, but it's very easy to read title and words.

picture from Life

These two picture from different magazine company same some similarities. Company names are placed on the upside and very clear. These two picture's background is simple, so that author can read words more clearly.

The purpose of cover line is to help u understand what magazine will talk about and give u general information. Cover line usually contains most important or shocking story in the magazine, so by seeing the cover line, people can get interest about the magazine. Cover line is usally big and placed in where everyone can see easily. Because cover line pops out to author's sight, it changes impact of design.

There are many styles of cover lines such as outside the box, inside the box, columns, zones, banners and corners, and unplanned and planned space. Out side the box: The simplest method for ombining pictures with cover lines is to keep them in separate areas of the covers. Inside 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. Columns: Another solution, which has appeared in many forms over the decades. Most magazines placed the column of cover lines on the left or right border. Zones: //The Commentator// from 1937 shows a cover combination still widely used today -- logo, picture, and cover lines, each in a separate, horizontal zone on the cover. 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. Unplanned space: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. Planned space: 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.

Photo from Vogue, if you see closely in to the words which placed on bottom of the word 1950, you can see the word face in third line. Face is related to this cover because cover image have big eye and mouth which are part of the face. Picture from Life, you can clearly see that photo was taken on the moon. The title of this magazine is ' TO THE MOON AND BACK'.