Cover types
1. Early Magazine Covers
2. The Poster Cover
3. Pictures Married to Type
4. In the Forest of Words

Early magazine covers were primitive compared to how we do our magazines today. They did not have the technology to put a picture onto their covers so their covers were more like a book cover. With hardly any words describing what was inside or what the magazine was about. It would usually have a piece of artwork on it and the title of the magazine and that was basically it. Poster covers were usually very elaborate and looked like something someone would hang on their walls in a dining room or something of the sort.

Pictures being married to type was basically where you would have your main story and possibly a brief summary of what it was about on your cover, then you would have your main cover picture to be sort of describing or being related to the story the main cover line was describing. The words/cover lines would be everywhere, intruding upon the picture and being bold and basically saying "look at me!"

posted by Wilbur @ 7:11 AM

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