Magazine Covers~!(:
Name: "Early Magazine Covers"
Year of Publication: 1970s - 1988s
Explanation: When early magazines used covers, they tended to model them after the covers of books providing only a title and publication data. There were no descriptive words indicating what would be found inside the magazine.
Name: "The Poster Cover"
Year of Publication: 1890s to the 1960s
Explanation: The covers of many of these oversized magazines looked as if they were printed to be framed and hung on the wall.
Name: "Pictures Married to Type"
Year of Publication: 20th Century
Explanation: It is not clear when cover lines first appeared, but it was early in the history of the magazine cover. By the late 1800s, cover lines were common, and in the early1900s, magazine cover lines started the ongoing dialogue that they have been carrying on ever since with cover art.
Name: "In the Forest of Words"
Year of Publication: 2001
Explanation: For most magazines at the turn of the 21st century, cover lines were as important as cover art. In some cases, cover lines and cover art improvised a new, vigorous, almost shocking dance with one other. In Guitar World from August 1992, cover lines attain a prominence that competes with the nameplate of the magazine itself.
