When we go to the books shop, we will first see the magazine cover. The cover is one of the, if not the, most important piece of the magazine. This is the reader’s first engagement with the magazine — it makes the very first impression that either entices the reader to continue or loses the audience’s interest altogether.
The cover is also my style and tone-setter. I must design a cover that authentically depicts your magazine’s tone and my brand’s voice.
The basis of most magazine covers will be either a photograph or an illustration. Either way, appealing images tend to have good contrast between light and dark regions. For text to be readable, it must be light and set against a dark background or vice versa. If I wanted the magazine to stand out from others, I thought of finding a suitable spot for text to catch people’s eyes. Black and white are always solid choices for subtitles or smaller text, but a magazine cover’s more significant, bolder text elements are a great place to inject some bright colour. Through the experiments, I thought selecting colours was never random. In magazine cover design, common approaches are to match or complement certain vivid areas of the photograph or illustration.

Moreover, The magazine cover may be flat; however, If I place a photograph or illustration, it partly obscures some text while appearing behind other text, effectively setting up three layered planes. Which helps to make the title looks pop out. If I can do that, I could make the magazine that jumps off the shelf.