Magazines Part II

Early Magazine Covers

Early magazine covers were nothing like todays magazine covers. Early covers sometimes didn't even have a picture on it, and were usually deprived on color in general. They were more book like that anything, and commonly had a table of contents and publishing information rather than an image. If a cover did have a image, it was for more decorative purposes rather than to reflect to the contents of the magazine.

Poster Cover

The poster cover is a more commonly used type of cover in today's magazines. These covers used pictures that took up the entire front page of the magazine. These photos are not usually coupled with words, and are the subject of the main story/ cover story (because its on the cover).

Pictures Married to Type

These magazine cover are more similar to Poster Covers than Early magazine covers. They are composed of a picture or main subject, which high lights the main story. However, the cover photo is often accompanied by a few sub-headings of other minor stories through ought the issue. This is to give an on looker more of an idea of the contents of the magazine.

In the Forrest of Words

Magazine covers of this type are almost a direct combination of early magazine covers and poster covers. Like poster covers they have a giant image centered in the middle of the magazine. But like early magazine covers, they are surrounded by sub-headings almost like a table of contents.