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Magazine Covers

Early Magazine Covers:

The Town and Country Magazine

April 1788

Early magazines tend to have a table of contents as a cover rather than a picture as we are used to seeing in todays magazines. The covers tended to design their covers like the covers of books. Many used a symbol or generic illustration and began with an article on the front page.

The Poster Cover

The Ladies Home Journal

1897

Influenced by the Art Norveau movement, they looked as though they were meant to be framed and hung on a wall. These covers tend to have a large image as the main focus, a bold title and no description of what is inside the magazine, the look more like posters than books or magazines.  

Pictures Married to Type

McClures Magazine 

1898

Tend to have bold, symbolic, traditional imagery. Type and art cover have a mutually supportive relationship. Large title with models face overlapping it. Cover lines. Covers began to give a description of what is inside the magazine, a variety of pictures were being used involving people of all different backgrounds.

In the Forest of Words

Vanity Fair

More modern magazine covers. Uses bold type, images of well known people, words all over cover giving a short description of what is inside the magazine in an attempt to get people curious and buy the magazine. Talk about things in the world we live in, deal with popular topics and more controversial ideas and individual questions and vanities.

Year in Review Post

Orion nebula's center, a cloud of gas and dust. Photo uses simplicity it is focused on the cloud. The exposure is sharp but looks a bit blurry because it is a picture of a cloud.

A giant Rubber Duck installation in Darling Harbour, Australia. Uses rule of thirds. sharp exposure.

A meteorite contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk. Uses leading lines. sharp exposure.

Best song of 2013: Retrograde by James Blake 

 i picked this as the best song of 2013 because it was very different from everything else this year and had a very good meaning behind it. I think it should be considered the best of 2013 because of how original it is.

Best movie of 2013:

Twelve years a Slave

Most Important News Story of the Year:

Most Important Person of the Year: 

1. One thing that happened over my holiday break was that my sister got engaged.

2. My resolutions for this year are: exercise, do better in school, get a job and learn how to drive better.

3. I'm looking forward to doing an apprenticeship in 2014.