From the course: Magazine Design: Getting Started
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The cover - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Magazine Design: Getting Started
The cover
- The cover is your style and tone setter. It, of course, makes the first impression. There are endless approaches to cover design, for now though, I'm going to limit it to, will you be on the newsstand. If you are, you'll want a cover that can compete there, but if you're not, you don't. The newsstand is a cluttered place. Rolling Stone is a newsstand magazine. It has a style and it also has the need to compete. This cover is loud, it's demanding, it's busy, several big headlines. They've put a headline above the nameplate so it can be seen if the magazine's just peaking out from behind others, which is normal. This is a popular technique. It's another reason nameplates are typically high on the page. The opposite of this is Porsche Panorama. This is a club magazine, not on a newsstand and because of that the cover is free to be anything. Porsche's style is minimal, it's clean, it's modern, no shouting necessary so the nameplate can be small and it can move around. It doesn't have to…
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