magazine+cover

Magazine Cover
===Both covers contain a profile of one person, example a man and a woman, with a simple background to draw your attention to the main focus of the cover. Both people are directly looking towards the camera. Only each persons shoulders and head are in the picture. The names of each magazine corporation are in the top, left corner of the cover, as a second focus.===  In the magazine LIFE the main story is hurts so good, which is about the actor hugh laurie's success. In the magazine VOGUE the main story is HOT SPRING which is about a new season premiere.

Design principles featured in the magazine LIFE are simplicity(single point, uncluttered) with the focus being the profile of an actor/ actress, another principle is colour contrast LIFE with dark deep hues, while VOGUE has bright colours.

The Evolution of the Magazine Cover
early magazines poster covers cover lines are captions that announce what stories are in the magazine. An integrated cover is when the writing is over the subject to make it more visually appealing It balances the cover and helps draw your attention to the subject of the magazine cover work sited:
 * they were tended to be modeled after book covers
 * provided only title and publication data
 * no descriptive words explaining what the magazine contains
 * looked as if they were meant to be printed, framed and hung on the wall
 * contain poster art followed by a small cover line announcing the theme
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Describe the following styles of cover lines: - __Unplanned spaces__ -__Planned spaces__ Work sited: []
 * Outside the box
 * simplest method of combining pictures with cover lines
 * a box contains the title while another box contains the pictures, and a third box contains cover lines and publication data
 * Inside the box
 * boxes were created inside an illustration where type can be put it place
 * Columns
 * another option includes creating coloured vertical columns for cover lines
 * Zones
 * zones were tended to be placed into separate boxes, later designers stop using this and eliminated many lines on covers
 * Banners and Corners
 * use of a banner with angled text, or wide slanted banners are one of many banner styles.
 * Unplanned and Planned Spaces-
 * useful to distinguish many ways of placing text inside a cover picture, almost as if places were left blank accidentally by the illustrator
 * magazine designers would experiment with ways of combining pictures with cover lines

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Nice work on the cover, although the title may be a little too hard to easily identify. 25/28