Magazines Part II

Early Magazine Cover.


In the 1700's magazine's were different, because The Table of Content's. They never had word's that explained the title, or the publishing data, you couldn't really tell what the book or magazine was going to have inside of it. They always just had a small picture that was drawn, or they had a picture of symbol, to show the spirit of publication.  Peterson's women magazine had a cover that had a rich feeling with beautiful drawing's. In the 1800's they would use a cartoon looking like cover, with a font that stood out from most of the magazines. Most of the magazine cover's used art and music to symbolize the inside world of that magazine that you would read.

The Poster Cover.

A lot of the artist's of poster cover got their artistic talent from the Art Norveau movement, due to that they took over graphic design, even when photographer's were their at the time, they didn't really care about it. They tried to make the cover look as if you wanted it to hang on the wall as a photograph, or maybe framed. The only problem is that they didn't relate their photo's to the story inside the magazine. A lot of the art that they did on the cover would announce the theme of the magazine, with very little cover line's. The illustration that they had would reach out farther than the rest of the cover.

Picture's married to type.

These magazine's would rely on heavy cover lines to help draw the readers into the story more than the cover art did. They tried to make a relationship with the reader and the book itself. In the 1900's they re-invented a method for the cover, they would use a large title, with her face hovering over it, and show their whole body for the emotion and feel of it, and the cover line's would be to the side of her, cautiously put in the right position to be able to read and get a glimpse of what's inside. In the early 1990's James Montgomery, created Uncle Sam, which would have the large picture and its cover lines at the bottom of the page, with a feel of a different color. earlier in 1930 they would use the first letter of the word bigger than to rest to stand out more than the res tto show that this was the title, and what was inside.

In the Forest of Words.

In 2001 they had created a specific idea to intensify the photography, and draw the picture away from the poster cover, and towards the photography with many cover lines around the cover. The over lines over reached the cover space. They use the fonts to cover specific parts of the body that aren't important to the photo, to eliminate the non important part, to show the rest that creates the photo's feel.