Magazines Part II

   Early magazine covers didn't look anything like ours today. The covers used to be used as a table of contents with a bunch of words. They used to make the covers of magazines look like book covers with words and maybe a small picture. The covers of magazines then started to look like posters. A lot of amazing artists emerged at that time because of their drawings being put on covers. Later, while still keeping the poster-like style, magazines started to put real people. The poster-like magazines can still be found today, just not as often. Cover lines began to be a big thing in that time also. Magazines relied on the lines to draw in peoples eyes. Companies that created magazines started to have a specific logo that identified their magazines. Magazines then started to question where to put the cover lines and experimenting with them. In the 60's, text on the page became bolder and brighter. The text also seemed to box in the person or model on the cover. Magazine were, and still are, putting so much text on the cover that it almost completely covers the picture. The pictures on the cover began to look like a background for the text.