Magazine+Cover+Assignment

 Magazine Cover Assignment ﻿ by: Stefanie and Alex K

**1. Research the history and design of magazine covers.**  **2. Design and create a magazine cover for a fictitious magazine featuring digital photos of you and your partner.**

~ Research and Questions Time Magazine Covers 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 charateristics of early magazine covers?  6. What are some characteristics of the poster cover?  7. What is the purpose of cover lines? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 8. What is an "integrated" cover? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 9. How can the placement of cover lines effect the overall <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">design of a cover? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px;">Cover Lines <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;">10. Describe the following styles of cover lines: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;">- Outside the box <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;">- Inside the box <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;">- Columns <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;">- Zones <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;">- Banners and Corners <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;">- Unplanned and Planned Spaces

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">~ Answers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">﻿1. April 9th 2001 April 9th 2007 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. There both about global warming. Both of the subjects are the main focus and are almost dead center. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. In the first, the cooking egg, is changed into a small replica of the earth, and symbolizes the fact that earth is being cooked. Basically, heating up. This cover is stating the problem we have. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In the second, the penguin seems to be alone, hence "survival guide" and it seems to be more of how to literally survive global warming and ways to make a difference and getting one step closer to being global warming free. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. In the first: framing, color space, simple and single point. In the second: balance (with the color), planes and depth levels, simple and single point, element relationship.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. Most of the covers were hand drawn. No photoshop back then. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6. Once again, these were hand drawn and no photoshop. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7. To capture the readers attention to read further into the magazine. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">8. When you combine two separate elements to create a harmonious balance. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">9. It's important to where you look first, so it does the same purpose as the picture it has to draw your eyes into it. If its at the bottom it won't do much because most people don't look at the bottom.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10. Cover Lines <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> a) Outside the box - One box contains the title, another box contains the picture, a third box contains cover lines or other publication data. Keeping text and pictures separate simplifies the printing process and eliminates the difficulties that can happen from printing type over a picture. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal;">b) Inside the box - Knockouts were used to create boxes inside an illustration, into which type could be placed. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> c) Columns - Another solution, which has appeared in many forms over the decades, is to create a colored vertical column for cover lines alone. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal;">d) Zones - L <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">ogo, picture and cover lines, each in a separate horizontal zone on the cover. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> e) Unplanned spaces - T ext might be described as being fitted into spaces that seem almost accidentally left blank by the illustrator. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal;">f) Planned spaces - 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.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: normal;">~Our Magazine Cover:

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