Magazine Cover- Magazine tips

This assignment consists of four blog posts.

Blog #1 - Magazine tips

After you shoot your portrait, you will use it as the central element of a mock magazine cover design that will occupy a page of an InDesign document.

To get this process started, you need to learn a little about magazine cover design.

Go to the link below:

http://www.pubexec.com/article/32-tips-tales-techniques-evaluating-appeal-your-next-magazine-cover-84611/1

Read the 2 page article about magazine cover design. The second page is much more important than the first page. On your blog tell me 5 things you should be thinking about when you design your magazine cover.

1. Familiar recognition from issue to issue (that’s the brand)
Make a solid, professional brand

2. Emotionally irresistible (that’s the image’s appeal)

Emotional image

3. Arousing curiosity (that’s to pull the casual glancer in)
Bait.

4. Intellectually stimulating, interesting (that’s to promise benefits)

Something that benefits a target market, something worth the time to look and read the magazine.

5. Efficient, fast, easy to scan (that’s showing off the service)

Simple, not messy