Thursday, January 31, 2008

Cover History

1. Early Magazine Covers were simple and not very colorful. Most covers looked like book covers of that time, while some covers were just a table of contents. A few covers used illustrations as ornamentation, but not until the mid 1800's, did the images actually pertain to what the magazine was about. Cover lines didn't really appear until the 1870's.

2. The Poster Covers are basically big photos with a title and with little/no words.
3. Pictures Married to Type is when the photo on the cover is about equal to the amount of text on the cover. I guess they call it "married" like how a couple should be equal.
4. In the Forest of Words is where there are so many words on the cover that it's almost as if they're more important than the photo and

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