MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them. By media blogger MediaSlut.
INTERNATIONAL
Advertising Age, 10 June 2013
Simple concept, and uncluttered cover, illustrating perfectly the Advertising Age “Creativity Issue”.
STYLIST, 12 June 2013
I take my hat off to publications that don’t take themselves too seriously, and who have FUN! And this STYLIST cover is the perfectly example, where they feature the “Fifty Best Box Sets”, and in true FRIENDS-fashion (FRIENDS is of course THE ultimate box set…); from the noticeable colour bullets between the letters, to the headline that is written in true FRIENDS-style (each episodes name starts with “The One With/Where…”). Classic.
M Magazine (LeMonde), 8 June 2013
I’m not clued up with the French Politics, but I am clued up on a good cover (or should we say ‘poster’, in this case…).
Idealog, Issue 46
The New Zealand title is right when they promote Issue 46 of Idealog as their “dirtiest cover yet”… They took “how to grow a brand” quite literally and here’s the behind-the-scenes video to show how it was done.
LOCAL
DESTINY, July 2013
DESTINY magazine has always featured some of the ‘strongest’ women in South Africa on their cover (you can view their archive of covers right here), and they’ve done it again with this celebratory issue featuring “25 of the most Inspirational Entrepreneurs”. On the cover, they have 17 of these talented women, and they are:
- Top row: Carol Bouwer, Sarah Thabethe, Kurisani Maswanganyi, Nana Magomola, Ipeleng Mkhari
- Second row: Joanne Strauss, Dr Bridgette Gasa, Deborah Calmeyer, Dr Anna Mokgokong, Nkhensani Nkosi
- Third row: Leila Janah, Olga Goodman, Dr Ndileka Shuenyane
- Fourth row: Lynette Magasa, Nelia Annandale, Sibongile Manganyi, Carmen Tal
– The (for now anonymous) blogger behind MediaSlut knows way too much for his own good about media in South Africa. Magazines in particular. His mission is to show when South African magazines might fail, but most importantly, succeed. If you’re looking for a library about South African magazines and news, your one-stop pitstop is MediaSlut. #MagazinesForTheWin
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