types of magazine covers

Early Magazine Covers

These covers had very little images if not any. And if there were the images were either for decoration, symbolization or both. Usually the cover contained a table of contents or automatically started out with a title and an article. This magazine cover often looked much like a book cover.

The Poster Cover

This style of a magazine cover usually contained one giant image, that looked as if it were a romantic style painting or just a really excellent photograph. These images usually gave the reader an idea of the content. Also a small head line and at the top would give you a direct thought of what was inside of the magazine.

Pictures Married to Type

This type of magazine cover has a combination of all attributes. There is a combination of a cover line, a posed image, and layers of other images and headlines. Layers is the most important part to this cover. Without different planes containing images and headlines this style would not have this name.

In the Forest of Words

For this style of covers we see that it contains a very large image but most of the time headlines and words will be very large and sometimes larger the the name of the magazine itself. Its as if the headlines are competing for attention on the cover. With this there are so many layers that for me it can get to overwhelming.