Friday, February 1, 2013

Magazine Tips

One cover stands out vividly from the thousands in my half century of magazine-ing.
The cover carried all the usual elements, but they were blended by the color, and that simplicity popped it out from its surrounding, gaudy competition.
One of them decided to abandon fashionable elegance and do some hard-selling by covering the cover with as many pictorial and verbal appeals as they could squeeze in, using every color (especially process yellow), typeface, angle, overlap, silhouetting, shadow and trick.

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