Learning About Magazine Covers-The Four Types of Magazine Covers

Image-based covers are simple and pretty easy to do. However, they are the most common types of cover, and so it's harder to make it unique. It's best for travel, fashion, photography, and food magazines as well as some others because you want to have a photograph representing what the issue is about, and these are typically physical things that can have a picture used. Illustration-based magazines are unique and very cool-looking- it can represent a more abstract idea or capture something that is in words. Type-based covers give large, sharp, bold look to them. Concept-based covers are best used for a strong, bold message, or something that is funny.