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if you want to keep the newspaper theme...

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Arapahoe High School 2013 Divider - Yearbook Discoveries

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use the paper crinkles from cover as background and handwrite text on it

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Finally time for a new roundup of beautiful magazine covers. All of these covers are collected on Pinterest where you can find even more great magazine covers. 

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the styles of the second and third spreads give me life

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I like the sliced out pictures and the quote as the write up. OMG YES!! That would be so cool this year! Since our theme is define us, we quote someone defining a word of our choice instead of doing a write up. That's something we've never done before. :)

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one photo on left side showing the division, left side with text

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handwrite the division titles and use for right side of page

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"Cover and opener illustration for Washington Post Magazine. The cover story, 'Lives Remembered,' told six touching life stories of people who had pas...

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Maquetación y diseño del periódico Quimera y suplemento FC2015. Trabajo realizado para la materia Tipografía 2 Cátedra Cosgaya - FADU UBA

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Information about the font Krasivyi and where to buy it.

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Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold

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Bodoni
century old style

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have all students fill out google form (through comms classes) about what words describe commarts

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Editorial Design Inspiration: Watermag Surfnews

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Watermag is a school assignment by design student Bjarke Nøhr Kristensen from Denmark. He chose to redesign the danish surf magazine Watermag surfnews and his work was great. Check it out!

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We've been getting more and more requests to do more themed galleries. And since most of them have been posters with various themes I thought that I'd change things up a bit by doing roundup of beautiful magazine covers this time. And since it's been almost 2,5 years since we last published one it's about bloody time, don't you think?

These covers are collected from our Pinterest board, where you'll find more great magazine covers. And if you want to check out the previous post you'll find it here.

Cosmopolitan February 2015

New Republic

Variety Kermit

Fräulein Cover

The New York Times Magazine - Roger Federer

The Sunday Times Magazine

Raygun

Zeit Magazin

Esquire - Steve Buscemi

Transhelvetica magazine, September/October 2013

Interview July 2013 - Thom Yorke

Entertainment Weekly - Michael Keaton

2020 BMX Mag

Daniel Day-Lewis for Esquire Malaysia January 2013

Bitchslap XV

Hole & Corner

Interview Cover

Dale Magazine

Fat Magazine

Washingtonian cover by Jon Contino

Clash

Velour Magazine

WAD

Rumor by Tomasz Biskup

People Magazine Redesign by Rachel Ake

ESPN

Interview

Magrocardona

Caffeine Magazine

Esquire - Clint Eastwood

Slash/ by Arnaud Mercier

New York Magazine

Fixe Magazine

Eloquence Magazine

Wired Magazine Cover by Troie.Lee

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35 Stunning Magazine Covers | From up North

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We've been getting more and more requests to do more themed galleries. And since most of them have been posters with various themes I thought that I'd change things up a bit by doing roundup of beautiful magazine covers this time.

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unvarnished truth
disclosure
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candid
reveal

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New York Times - The week ahead #scattereddesign #bwwithcolour

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Here we have compiled a beautiful collection of professional and inspirational magazine covers to help guide you in designing your own magazine. The covers that we have selected below have been taking from big name magazines such as Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, FUKT and Collect. You might be thinking "of course they're going to be great, they have big teams and top directors working on every cover", you have a point, but nothing stops you achieving the same or better results. The one thing that all these covers have in common is that they share the same motto and that is that the skies the limit.

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21 Creative and Inspirational Magazine Covers

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Here we have compiled a beautiful collection of professional and inspirational magazine covers to help guide you in designing your own magazine. The covers that we have selected below have been taking from big name magazines such as Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, FUKT and Collect.

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Strik·ing (adj): Attracting attention by reason of being unusual, extreme or prominent.

There are two important goals when designing a magazine cover; the first is to attract the potential buyer's attention and the second is to express the content or theme of the magazine. Design a cover that achieves both of these goals and it will significantly increase the chances of the ultimate goal - a consumer purchase.

How will your magazine cover attract the potential buyer's attention? By being striking. Study the competition and do something different. Create a cover design that attracts attention for being unusual, extreme or prominent; a cover that stands out like a sore thumb on a crowded magazine rack. And as these striking magazine covers demonstrate, create a design concept that is closely tied to the theme of the magazine issue.

So, let's get on with the show - or the showdown. In the great magazine cover battle, here are 50 striking magazines that have delivered winning blows.

01. Give the issue title pride of place

02. Flip the layout

03. Use one-point perspective

04. Create a laser cut cover

05. Showcase a sequence

Audubon's cover uses a grid to show the elegant flight sequence of the Roseate Spoonbill, photographed by John Huba. It showcases the colour, flight and movement with minimalist typography aligned to reinforce the grid.

06. Merge the image and the background

07. Create impact with imagery

Martin Schoeller photographed Orange Is the New Black actress Uzo Aduba for the June 2015 cover of Stylist. The close up of Aduba's face - with eyes squeezed shut and grin gap-toothed and joyful - is magnetic and jubilant.

08. Experiment with transparent shapes

09. Play with face paint

10. Create illusions with paper

11. Nothing wrong with pretty and sweet

12. Create a sense of texture with embroidery

13. Avoid eye contact

14. Fake a light source

15. Experiment with psychedelic colours

Illustrator Matt Corbin played with bright psychedelic colours and globule-like forms to create the image of a strong woman posed against a shiny black background.

16. Use a cheeky photo

17. Centre the masthead

18. Tear it up

19. Use simple lines and forms

20. Make a statement with the barcode

21. Add a transparent overlay

22. Layout a series of simple illustrations

23. Use gold foil to reflect light

24. Contrast a blurred image with crisp lines

Graphic designer David Carson is renowned for his explorative approach to typography and layout. On this cover of Ray Gun he overlays a blurred, almost steamy, image of Beck with strong black typography made all the more bold with the holes of each letter filled in.

25. Get ready for an extreme close-up

26. Experiment with type

27. Disorient with surrealism

28. Be artistic with traditional tools

Go back to your traditional box of art tools and play with other mediums - paint, crayon, pastel, pencil - and create an artistic composition like the cover of Adbusters.

29. Follow a formula

30. Use an extra wide frame

31. Muster nostalgia with sepia tones

32. Morph the image

33. Use a frame to highlight

34. Add depth with a geometric transparency

35. Experiment with depth of field

36. Capture dynamic movement

U/C - or Under/Current - freezes the movement of a dancer been thrown or caught by a group of other dancers. The movement is captured in the dynamic tension of the dancers' outstretched limbs.

37. Explore negative space

This Used cover explores negative space by slicing the masthead from the solid black box in the centre of the page. Glimpses of the model's face are seen through the negative space and it is particularly striking as the model's eyes are framed by the black box and her angular haircut.

38. Foster anonymity

39. Create an illusion with a decorative pattern

40. Maximise blank space

41. Consider a different angle

42. Add warmth with a colour transparency

43. Create atmosphere with silhouettes

44. Set an image within a shape

Brownbook consistently sets an image - whether it is a photograph or illustration - within a hexagon on a white page. This issue of Brownbook places the model strategically so that her head and toes reach the top and bottom corners of the hexagon.

45. Move everything to the middle

46. Add a pop of colour

47. Create a mood with your colour palette

Designers Violaine & Jérémy use a soft and subtle colour palette that is fitting of the relaxing mood associated with having a cup of tea, reinforced by the steam wafting up the page.

48. Create layers with torn paper

49. Find patterns for striking visual effect

50. Use hand drawn techniques

Your turn

So how do you create a striking magazine cover? Here's three factors to consider: 1) Create a design that stands out amongst the competition. 2) Come up with a concept that expresses the theme of the magazine. 3) Think outside the box when it comes to design techniques and tools.

Once you've done that, get ready to enter the great magazine showdown. May the most striking cover win a well-earned place in the annals of beautifully designed magazine covers.

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50 Design Techniques That Made These Magazine Covers Awesome [Epic Case Studies]

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Strik·ing (adj): Attracting attention by reason of being unusual, extreme or prominent. There are two important goals when designing a magazine cover; the first is to attract the potential buyer's attention and the second is to express the content or theme of the magazine.

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Peter Yang May features for The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and New York Magazine | DS REPS News