February 26, 2004
Magazine Covers 2 Electric Boogaloo
Speak Up post on the declining quality of magazine cover design, a follow-up to the
Design Observer post I linked to earlier. This one has lots 'o links to some terrific magazine cover galleries.
Posted by mhinrichs at February 26, 2004 02:07 PM
One thing that hasn't come up yet (specifically, at least) is the current trend for designed-for-the-newstand magazine covers to include lots of bold numbers used in the typography. At the Society of Publication Designers conference in NYC last May, this caused a little debate. The folks from the New York Times Magazine more or less hinted not-so-subtlely during their presentation that we (graphic designers) should really push to use numbers on covers more sparingly, even though -- as far as type goes -- they look so darn tootin' good.
Like page numbers? I tried doing neat things graphically with page #s on a table of contents, but never on the covers - mostly because our sections were so small (usually 12-24 pages).
More along the lines of "5 Secrets the Government Doesn't Want You to Know" -- with the numeral being typeset at, like a gratuitous 280pt. or something.
