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
ESPN, August 2013
ESPN’s annual Body Issue (in it’s 5th year already…) is hitting the shelves today (Friday 12 July) in the USA. And once again, in true ESPN Body Issue fashion, they have some of the best sports stars on a whole range of covers, all in the nude, making us mere mortals feel guilty about our own bodies. But who’s cover is the most talked (and joked) about? The cover with Gary Player… Personally, I think he looks great, and puts most people his age (77!) to shame. Scrap that, he puts most young guys to shame…
To view the behind-the-scenes video of Gary Player, and all the other stars, while shooting their covers, just click here.
The sports starts on the covers, and featured in the magazine, includes Colin Kaepernick, Matt Harvey, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Giancarlo Stanton, Swin Cash, Courtney Force, John Wall, Vernon Davis, John Isner, Sydney Leroux, Kenneth Faried, Carly Booth, Joffrey Lupul, Elena Hight, Agnieszka Radwanska, Chris Sharma, Daila Ojeda, Miesha Tate, Marlen Esparza, Tarah Gieger and Gary Player.
To view a slideshow of some of the amazing and beautiful photography in this issue you can just click here. A must-see…
VARA GIDS, 13 July 2013
This TV guide magazine isn’t just you normal TV Guide as we know it in South Africa. Their covers are almost always creative and unique. For this cover, they’re featuring The Great British Bake Off, and baked the whole cover, including the masthead. We’re seeing more of more of these types of playful covers…
Cuisine, July 2013
This New Zealand cooking magazine has dome something I’ve never seen before, or thought of as a possibility for a cover; they’ve created a bookstand, with the masthead on top of the bookshelf, and the main stories are either featured as the cover of a ‘cook book’, or the ‘spine’. I think it’s very smart!
– 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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