Magazine+Cover

1. Choose two Time magazine covers. Record the URL and the issue date.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101110321,00.html (March 21st, 2011) http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20110411,00.html ( April 11th, 2011)

2. What do both of the covers have in common?
They don't have that much in common. But of course there is the same headline and the cover looks almost the same, only with a different picture in the middle.

3. What is the main story in that issue and how does it relate to the image on the cover?
The main story is the safety of your data and it relates to the image because there are all those little sentences in the shape of the head. They tell you private information. E.g: "Likes:movies", "married", "income:100000"

4. What design principles are evident in the cover image?
in the first: diagonals, a lot of writing, colours in the second: texture

=**The Evolution of the Magazine Cover **=

5. What were some charateristics of early magazine covers?
black and white, easy, one headline and a picture

7. What is the purpose of cover lines?
to catch the readers attention, so that he wants to buy the magazine because he is interest in one of the articles

8. What is an "integrated" cover?
there are sum coverlines and headlines over and under the picture.

9. How can the placement of cover lines effect the overall design of a cover?
you can make big and small ones, so that the important ones are big and colourful.