Magazine+Cover+Assignment

http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/07/lebron-james-covers-time-magaz-000938.php http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957362,00.html

2) Both of these magazines are about basketball

3) The main story in Beijing '08 Summer Olympic Preview is about the Olympic USA basketball team defeating Canada 120 - 60 The college trap is about a 6 foot 10 inch kid setting his goals to grow pro, and details how he did so.

4) Balance because both images are centered.

5) What were some charateristics of early magazine covers? Early magazine covers had less writing. From 1890-1920 some magazines used highly segmented covers.

6) What are some characteristics of the poster cover? The older cover has less colour and is more gray. The newer cover has more colour but yet still not as much as some of the covers today.

7) Cover lines help catch the readers eye and make the magazine look more appealing. They make the magazine cover look interesting and visually appealing. Their basic use is to interest people to continue reading the magazine.

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9)If the cover lines are covering any part of the picture then the picture would be hard to see. If the Cover lines are in the same colour as the picture then they will be hard to read and ineffective.

__Cover lines__

1) Outside the box: The simplest method for combining pictures with cover lines is to keep them in separate areas of the covers, a solution that has proved effective for more than a hundred years.

Printers faced difficulties in placing text on top of an illustration, unless they a run through the press after the first run was dry.

3) Text Columns on the Cover: Another solution, which has appeared in many forms over the decades, is to create a colored vertical column for cover lines alone.
4) Zones: Many magazines adopted a recurring cover format that regularly featured a column of cover lines. //The Commentator// from 1937 shows a cover combination still widely used today -- logo, picture, and cover lines, each in a separate, horizontal zone on the cover. Early magazines tended to place these zones into separate boxes, but later designers eliminated many of the confining and decorative lines on covers--though this example retains two.

5) Banners and Corners: The banner on this //Red Book// from 1916 shows what appears to be a rare use of a banner with angled text; it is the only instance in the covers I examined before about 1950. //Motor Life// from 1956 contains a spectacularly wide slanted banner, with four widely spaced lines of text on a vivid yellow, in addition to a red inset box of cover lines at the bottom.

6) Planned and Planned Spaces: It is useful to distinguish several ways of placing text inside a cover picture. In the simplest approach, text might be described as being fitted into spaces that seem almost accidentally left blank by the illustrator. On this //Physical Culture// from 1916, the cover lines seem to be squeezed into awkward spaces around the cover model. Judging from conventional magazine practice of the day, the editor would probably have liked to list many more of the contributors' names, instead of "And Many Others."