Magazine Covers

Magazine Covers // 

Magazine covers from all over the world have had a strong roll in society until today. Music magazines like GQ and Rolling Stone have produced iconic imagery on the front covers for decades. It is seen as a true mile stone within a singers career to make it onto the front of one of these. 

These magazines have the power to boost any celebrities career as they are so highly admired and widely viewed by the whole world.

A magazine cover is one of the strongest ways of getting recognised due to its vast audiences and successful advertising campaigns including billboards and posters along side the magazine itself.

What I aim to produce through my practical investigation is one or more magazine covers similar to the ones shown above but that are interactive with the use of technology.

Kontor Records.

This idea stems from a project I came across earlier in my research. The project included a newly released vinyl record. The company or producer that wanted to advertise the track thought that if they sent a bunch of vinyls round to everyone they wanted to hear it, chances are the recipients would not have access to a record player. This gave them the idea to produce a paper turntable that would then play the record when activated by a smart phone, the track would then play from the phone.

Possible ideas for my own interactive magazine cover include using a freeze frame of a music video on the front cover and having it come alive on a smart phone.

I really like the simple monotone design for the paper turntable above and would like to replicate this in my own work.

Another idea is to use this project as more of an influence and actually replicate something very similar but on a magazine cover. The magazine would include a cd or record? or the design on the front would include a DJ deck that could be played around with by the reader on their phone.

I will also try and implement some of the design principles i have learnt so far this year into my design. These will include Grids, Colour theory and modernist design.