Cover History

Cover types
1. Early Magazine Covers
In early magazines, they didn't have covers just table of contents. Then they began styling them like books. Some magazines began using a general cover for all the issues, so that it wouldn't mention what was in the issue. In earlier times, there were a wide range of different types of covers.

2. The Poster Cover
People began putting illustrations on their covers. Finding quality artists to draw elaborate pictures on their magazine covers. Some were so elaborate that they would be mistaken to be framed and on a wall rather than on the front of a magazine. There was little writing on these covers, the artistry took the majority of the cover. Life magazine in 1936 was the first magazine to use photographs as the cover.

3. Pictures Married to Type
The eras of magazines are clearly established when first looked upon. When you first look at a magazine you can tell what era, decade, or even year or date of when it was created, because not only were the past time magazines very simple, but also current events that were happening in the time, directly effect the magazine and magazine cover.

4. In the Forest of Words
At the turn of the 21st century, magazines began writing practically everything in their magazine on the front cover. The words covered up most of the photograph.

Biggest Headline

YES, HE COULD!

By the time the networks announced it, Barack Obama's Electoral College–landslide presidential victory was as inevitable as it had once seemed impossible. The election of the first black President of the United States of America had been an epic journey, not only by virtue of the racial barriers it smashed but also by dint of the campaign ingenuity and inventiveness that marked a generational shift in American politics. At the center of the drama was Obama himself, heroic but self-possessed, outdistancing formidable rivals, always the smartest and most charismatic figure in the room. It remains to be seen, of course, whether all the ecstatic political soteriology of his campaign can overcome the economic apocalypse Obama will inherit, along with a vexing list of adjunct crises from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the dysfunction in American education and health care. But for a moment on Nov. 4, Americans across the board were invited to renew their faith in the true magic of their country's story.

Best song of 2008

One of my favorite songs this year, rather album, was Coldplay's Viva La Vida. I think its the best song not only for its melody and lyrics, but the music video to acompany it. It creates an old civil war type look with famous paintings from history, the whole video looks like an oil painting.

photo of the year

Images of books on shelves are seen projected on the walls of the Tower of David in Jerusalem's Old City - part of a show called "Or Shalem, Jerusalem Lights the Night", staged by a group called Skertzò on October 7, 2008. The Tower of David is a massive citadel that, over the centuries, has served as a fortress, military barracks and cannon position. These days, the Tower serves as a popular tourist site

*I think that this should be a good canidate for the photo of the year, because it is so unique in the fact that they projected such a clear photo onto the Tower of David. This creates a different and beautiful picture.


A single home is left standing among debris from Hurricane Ike September 14, 2008 in Gilchrist, Texas. In its brief, but eventful life, Ike wreaked enough havoc to be blamed for over $31.5 billion in damage and nearly 150 deaths across the Caribbean and Gulf Coast. (



*I think this should be considered as the photo of the year because of its use of a current event and its wonderful composition. It is focused perfectly and has a clear subject, yet also shows the destruction of the hurricane.








A polar bear shakes his body to remove water at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec on March 6, 2008


*I think this should be a good canidate for the photo of the year, because it is captivating in the amazement of the timeing that it took so get this shot. The remarkable closeness and composition create a fun cool picture.

photos from around the world

I picked this photo because of its use of lines and colors. The amazing amounts of lines are creating a beautiful photo.

i chose this because the colors are vivid, the lines are leading, and the reflection creates another view. The composition of this photo is beautiful.