Magazine Covers #4

1. Early Magazine Covers
Early magazine covers do not resemble what we think of when we think of magazine covers. They looked more like book covers. They did not have many pictures if any and the only writing that was on them was the title and other basic information like that. Early magazine covers were used from about the 1700s to the 1890s.

2. The Poster Cover
Some magazines today draw inspiration from these types of covers. Poster covers focused mainly on graphic art as the focal point of the cover. The early ones did not have many words still. A lot of times the art on the cover was purely random and for entertainment it often didn't have anything to do with anything from the articles and these covers were used up to about the 1960s.

3. Pictures Married to Type
When these covers began to be published is when we really started to see a lot of words on the covers of our favorite magazines. Magazines began advertising their contents on their covers and this was the beginning of the magazines were accustomed to seeing today. Many times they would have words only on one side of the picture.

4. In the Forest of Words
These are the covers we see today. The cover is littered with advertisements of whats in the contents of the magazine. Something that differentiates these covers from the previous type of cover is that they became more daring with the size of letters on the cover . They also became more daring with the amount of words they put on the cover. The ads became more and more obtrusive on the pictures.