cover history

in forest of words(below):at this time the designers were just trying to intrigue thier readers with big intense pictures and lots of vivid headlines.once the 21st century hit cover lines were really impotant; they were just as important as the cover art itself.some covers of this time period actually had cover lines bigger than the cover title itself.but powerful pictures were hardly enough to catch the attention anymore ( like half naked women ) because sometimes the cover lines were so big and distracting they would intrude with the picture.

pictures married to type(below):in this time is when cover lines really started to appear in magazines.also this is when artist started to figure out how to really capture a readers eye in the magazines.most of the magazines have the model covering up the title name or something of the model covering up the name.

the poster cover(above):from 1890's-1960's the poster cover was the most popular;now it wasnt the only cover but it iver ran every other cover.this cover published so many covers on so many covers of alot of magazines.many of these covers of these over-sized magazines looked as if they were meant to be posted in a frame.most of these poster covers from the 1890-1940 didnt even relate to what any of the stories had to say they just pictured a season or a mood. early magazine cover(above):when magazines first started they really sisnt even have covers they just had an opening page and a title and that was basically thier title. when the early magazine first started they tried to make thier "covers" look like book covers.unlike magazines now they didnt have any contens on the page telling them what your were going to be reading in the magazine.it wasnt until 1844 that they started to get illustrations on the cover.covre lines began to appear on covers in the later 1800's.