Magazine Cover Design
How can we use teasers to seduce the audience into reading our magazines?
Your cover design is the front line of advertising for your publication, a key marketing tool to sell your product.
Criteria and Constraints
Cover Layout
Canvas Size: 8.5 inches by 11 inches.
Create an overall theme for your magazine.
Create a title for your magazine.
Create short teasers for your magazine's content.
A barcode should be placed on the front or back cover.
Cover Design
Cover designs promote books or magazines. They act to attract readers and communicate the publications’ content. The design of a cover may influence your decision to purchase or read the book or magazine.
Every book and magazine is in competition. All are vying for potential consumers' time, attention, and sometimes money.
Every book or magazine is designed for a target audience. When designing a cover, design with your audience and the marketplace in mind. The goal is to inform, create suspense, and / or intrigue.
A cover should quickly and clearly give the reader a sense of what the publication is about and arouse interest.
Clearly organize all information, photos, and graphics for the audience.
Consistency is a very important element in multi-page design; it provides flow from one page to the other.
Pages need to be attractive, seductive, and interesting, or no one is going to pay attention to them.