Thinking about designing and publishing a magazine? Cameron Chapman has a tutorial for you on Creating a Magazine Cover. He offers tips on preparing your main cover image, setting up a grid, adding the text, and preparing the file for your printer. It's not an in-depth look at stunning magazine cover design, but it offers one view of the basic technical process. And, as he says at the end, "These methods can easily be adapted to creating covers for brochures, magazines, catalogs, or even for creating full-page display ads." Not enough information for you? Here's Terry White's tutorial on Magazine Cover Design in InDesign. And in The secrets of magazine cover design at Magforum.com discover all the key parts of a magazine cover in part 1. Then get the right mix in part 2 and add some finishing touches in part 3 (with lots of examples).
And for your viewing pleasure, some of the best and the worst magazine covers:
- Collection of Beautiful Magazine Covers for Inspiration (Designm.ag)
- Beautiful and Inspirational Magazine Cover Page Designs (Smashapps)
- Best Magazine Covers (artsyTIME)
- Best Magazine Covers of 2009 (Amazing Facts)
- Worst Magazine Covers: The Gallery of Lame (Gawker)
- 'Nobody Wanted His Popcorn': Five hilariously sad inspirational magazine covers (The Pitch blogs)