Magazine+Cover

Celine V. (without partner)


 * Assignment:**
 * 1. Research the history and design of magazine covers.**
 * 2. Design and create a magazine cover for a fictitious magazine featuring digital photos of you and your partner.**

Elements of Magazine Covers: Banner (sometimes called "nameplate")


 * Tagline
 * Image
 * Cover blurbs
 * UPC code
 * Price
 * Date/Volume number
 * website

==__Step 1. Research and Questions__ ==

You and your partner will research each of the following websites and answer the questions together. Create a new page on your wiki title "Magazine Cover". //**If you are working with a partner please put __both your name and your partners name__ on the top of this wiki page. You and your partner will have identical pages.**//

[|Time Magazine Cover Archive:]

1. Choose two Time magazine covers. Record the URL and the issue date.

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20041115,00.html G.Bush= November 15, 2004 http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20081117,00.html B.Obama= November 17, 2008



2. What do both of the covers have in common? Both covers are first about politics with G.Bush and B.Obama. The issue date is just 4 years difference. This is two portraits. Both have a red banner and the background is one colour. B.Obama and G.Bush have their head turn to the right and have similar clothes.

3. What is the main story in that issue and how does it relate to the image on the cover? Both are about the election, one with Barack Obama, the other with George Bush. So the main story is relate to the image.

4. What design principles are evident in the cover image? Explain Simple and single point: because we see above all portraits. Framing: because covers have a red frame.

__The Evolution of the Magazine Cover __

5. What were some characteristics of early magazine covers? First, magazine covers were black and white (1923). A few years later, there was a red frame(Jan 03, 1927). 1928: several photos are with colours. Again later, colours everywhere on covers became(1950).

6. What are some characteristics of the poster cover? Today, there is always the red frame with in a photo or a picture. The size and colours of the text are varied.

7. What is the purpose of cover lines? Maybe it's to show borders and focus within it.

8. What is an "integrated" cover? It's when we see the cover and it give us envy to open the magazine.

9. How can the placement of cover lines effect the overall design of a cover? For example here when we see the cover we are focused within.

[|Cover Lines] 10. Describe the following styles of cover lines:

__Outside the box:__ Usually it is better if we use several box if we want use text and image (one box for the text, one box for the image). Today we don't use often this technique. __Inside the box:__ Several knockouts were used to create boxes inside an illustration, into which type could be placed. In this Liberty from 1936, the colorful, dynamic illustration now shares space not only with the small cover lines at the bottom. __Columns:__ Another solution, which has appeared in many forms over the decades, is to create a colored vertical column for cover lines alone. __Zones:__ Many magazines adopted a recurring cover format that regularly featured a column of cover lines. Later designers eliminated many of the confining and decorative lines on covers. __Banners and Corners:__ 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. Banners seem to belong to attention-grabbing "loud" covers, and have been used little, or in restrained ways, by successful, mainstream publications. __Unplanned 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. Many illustrations created spaces especially for the display of cover lines, on elements inside the illustrations -- such as walls, sails, columns, doorways, open windows, and other uniformly colored spaces against which type could be placed.

**Step 2. Designing a Cover**
You must have: Your magazine cover will be graded on if you included the above elements and how you carry out Unity in your magazine cover. _Unity can be achieved by carrying out a common theme in the type styles, photos, story titles and descriptions. Do all the parts work together? _Think about readability, can you read the type against the background? Is the type style readable? Are the sentences too long? Are the titles descriptive enough to make you know what the article is about? Does the type size signify the importance? _Does the photo or photos support the theme? Does the photo catch your eye? Is it too busy or too simple? _How is your effort and craftsmanship? You will need to be selecting, cutting, pasting and cropping. Does your cover look professionally neat? _Layout, how did you arrange all the elements? Is the type all lined up flush left, right, centered? Is the type over the picture or a background? Did you add a banner with the issue date, web site, and cost? Does the layout make it easy to read or confusing?
 * You need to design a magazine cover using Adobe PhotoShop Elements.**
 * 1) A background (sea)
 * 2) A cover photo (may have smaller photos to show other features included in the magazine)(Falze)
 * 3) A Title (Pet show)
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Several story line titles(Pamper them as much as we love them p.8-understand them with a pet lover_12pages about it-How teach them a show? What techniques can we use? p17)
 * 5) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Issue date (April 17, 2011)
 * 6) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Issue price ($ 4.99)

Using a blank sheet of plain white paper do a rough design of your magazine cover. __**Get teacher approval.**__

Decide on magazine genre such as fashion, science, sports, design, military, etc. Choose title and design graphic Design and sketch cover graphic featuring a digital photo of you and your partner. Write a series of cover lines for stories that might appear in the magazine and place them on your sketch. Make sure the cover lines are short and snappy. They should grab the attention of the potential purchaser.
 * Procedure:**

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Step 3. Building Your Cover
Create your digital Magazine Cover using Photoshop. Using the requirements of your cover design, take a digital photo of yourself and your partner preferably against a plain, single coloured background. (This will make editing your photos easier) Import the photos using iPhoto. Create a new folder in the pictures folder and title it: Magazine Cover Block b (or d) Create A Barcode <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]
 * Instructions:**

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Step 4. Finishing Up
When you are satisfied with your cover: Select File>Save As...change from Photoshop format to JPEG, Title and save in your Magazine Cover Folder. Print a colour copy Trim the edges of the cover and mount on 8.5 X 11 black paper. Submit to teacher along with the rough design and the typed out answers to Step 1.



===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Evaluation: ===


 * Research** /25 Complete and comprehensive responses to the questions.


 * Rough Design** /15 Clearly thought out design and cover lines


 * Cover** /30 Photoshop technique, Clean use of layers and Impact full Design.


 * Total** /70