Magazines Part II
They were kind of like books with a title and a little picture. There wasn't really big words to say what they were talking about or to draw you in and little description. The book design and the table of contents design lasted from 1700s to the 1800s. Then they started using symbolic covers but it never really reviled what was in the magazine. Instead, it symbolized what the magazine itself was about. Some just didn't have a cover and started it on the front page. Then they started using cover lines.
2. The Post Cover
1890s through the 1960s something that was really popular was just putting a big picture on there. Most of the big pictures that were on the magazine sometimes didn't even relate to what was in the magazine. They just wanted to make a 'good mood'. The covers were just artsy. Then they started using actual pictures people take and put them as the cover.
3. Pictures Married to Type
Then it was a title with the models face over it. It was usually a full body pose that had an unusual posture. And cover lines all around the picture not covering it up but just around it to wear you see both the picture and the words. There are primary and secondary cover lines. They put the cover lines were they thought. A lot of it appeared in color now.
4. In the Forest of Words
Now, cover lines were equally important as cover art. Some of the cover lines were bigger then the magazine title itself. You have to have a good cover and good cover lines because sometimes its not enough to have us one. Now its just fashion and celebrities.
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