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
Anthology, Spring 2013
I’m not familiar with Anthology magazine at all, but I can see that it’s a magazine that the Ideas / Idees reader would just love! The colour-scheme, font and styling of this cover is what guaranteed it a spot on my list of favourite covers.
Esquire Malaysia, June 2013
Esquire Malaysia’s May 2013 also made my list of favourite covers, but they seem to keep pushing the boundaries and they’ve done it again with their June 2013 cover featuring Brad Pitt.
Runner’s World, July 2013
After the Boston Marathon bombings, we’ve seen a few very strong (and emotional) covers paying tribute to those that died or were injured. The May 2013 cover of Boston springs to mind, and I also featured it in my 3 May 2013 column. You can read more about the story behind this Runner’s World cover here, but basically, their June issue went to print when the bombings happened, so they could only pay tribute in their own special way, with their July 2013 issue. And they have succeeded.
People Management, June 2013
Business-2-Business (B2B) covers are usually Boring (with a capital B), but I thought this cover of People Management stood out. The Purple cover might be a bit too much, but ‘reveal’ of “the best ever company for HR” is pretty cool, especially on a B2B title. Locally, the B2B covers that regularly stand out for me, are the JSE covers.
LOCAL
Playboy South Africa, June 2013
What a stunning cover and also cover-image, with the gold-foiling on Alexis Fox’s body! I also like that they dropped most of the cover lines. Why, do you ask? Because since the May 2013 issue, Playboy South Africa is only available digitally so it doesn’t have to compete so hard on shelf with a lot of coverlines, and I like it! And it’s DIRT CHEAP to subscribe to the digital issue!
– 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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