magazine+assignment

August 7th, 2010. March 27th, 2000

= __QUESTIONS:__ =

1. These two covers have in common that they both have a person as the cover,But they are talking about two different topics. 2,A. The first cover is about the challenges in pakistan, and it has a pretty girl that's missing a nose. 2,B. The second cover has a man on it; inside a computer. 3,A. The first cover is about the war going on in pakistan, and how if the American's leave what will the terrorists do to the poor people living in pakistan. So showing the girl with no nose is just a taste of what disturbing things they can, and maybe will do to their own people. 3,B. The second cover is about the downsides of pirating film, music etc. and the effect it has on the 'BUSINESS'S'. The man in the picture (i have no idea who he is) must have something to do with the subject. 4,A. It's design principles for this photo is defiantly uncluttered and rule of thirds. 4,B. For the second times cover i would have to say that it has rule of thirds and framing.

**__EVOLUTION OF MAGAZINE'S:__**
1. They were usually painted and only had a main-title. 2. They were only posted on one side, and had information about government issues as well as private announcements. 3. The purpose of cover lines were to describe major articles inside the magazine using short phrases on the cover. 4. An integrated cover is when you combine two components to create a harmonious balance. 5. The placement is important because you have to choose a spot that will make distracted audiences more interested into the magazine.

= __**COVERLINES:**__ =

1. OUTSIDE THE BOX- The simplest method for combining pictures with cover lines is to keep them in separate areas of the covers. Magazines featured large illustrations framed inside boxes, with cover lines outside the box, usually at the bottom. One style of illustration surrounded the picture with an aura of white which, when it met the white of the blank page, created the illusion of a full bleed. Cover lines could be placed on the page so that they appeared to be on the white areas of the illustration.

2. INSIDE THE BOX- knockouts were used to create boxes inside an illustration, into which type could be placed//.// Some magazines began using cover lines in more than one position.

3. COLUMNS- create a colored vertical column for cover lines alone. A text column on the cover throughout the '30s, using it in a flexible manner to adapt to the illustration.

4. ZONES- Different magazines used different methods. One method, often with multiple framing (five boxes): one with the logo, one with the picture, one with the cover line and publication data, and two with an ornate decorative border. Another unusal method was to place multiple overlapping pictures on the cover, each with its own tilte and a colored box for cover text. The "zoning" method appeared in many kinds of magazines. for example, a 1937 //College Humor,// which sported a large humorous illustration and extensive cover lines in a separate zone at the bottom of the cover.

5. BANNERS AND CORNERS- Banners seem to belong to attention-grabbing "loud" covers, and have been used little, by successful, mainstream publications.Some magazines used a banner with angled text.

6. UNPLANNED AND PLANED SPACES- Text might be described as being fitted into spaces that seem almost accidentally left blank by the illustrator, squeezed into awkward spaces around the cover model. Magazine designers experimented with different ways they could combine pictures with cover lines. Illustrators found many ways to design spaces for cover-lines in thier magazines. Editors were not embarrased about designing illustrations that included a special visual power on certain open spaces, so that cover lines could be placed into those spaces. many illustrations created spaces for the display of cover lines, on elements inside the illustrations--such as walls, sails, columns, doorways, open windows, and other coordianted colored spaces against which type should be placed.