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.
REMEMBER TO VISIT OUR ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS FAVOURITE COVERS…
INTERNATIONAL
Serafina, July 2013
I like what Brazilian magazine Serafina has done with this double-cover – a simple concept that works. You might spot that they also used the x-ray ‘version’ of the logo “Serafina” for the first cover.
New York, 29 July 2013
We’ve seen quite a few very creative SEX covers. A Sex Issue is always a best seller, but how do you ‘illustrate’ that it’s a sex issue without offending too many people, or being banned/censored on-shelf? You do what New York magazine did, and use a beautiful artwork (Medusa II, 2012, by artist Leah Yerpe)! It not only looks like an orgy, but it’s also really beautiful to look at, and no one can’t say that it isn’t Art… You can view this and other artwords in this range by Leah Yerpe, right here.
Here is a preview of the content from the New York website:
Sex: Theory & Practice
Twentysomethings can never, ever leave their lovers; fetishism tries in vain to give Freud the slip; a klatch of pickup artists (plus The Rules’ authors) spar over what counts as relationship success. PLUS: lusty micro-memoirs of first times, sneaky cheating, and trysts everywhere from the office to a church.
The Advocate, August / September 2013
The August 2013 cover of The Advocate will definitely strike a cord with a few people! It’s a striking cover and explores being black and gay in America today, following the murder of Mark Carson, a 32-year-old black gay man from New York City, in “gay-friendly Greenwich Village by homophobes wielding a 38-caliber revolver”… You can read the complete article here.
Tom Tom, Issue 13, 2013
Don’t worry, I’ve also never heard of Tom Tom Magazine, but you might find it interesting to know that it’s “A Magazine about Female Drummers”… I know, right? There’s a magazine for everything! This digital magazine doesn’t produce the best covers necessarily, but I absolutely love (LOVE!) their logo design, and for that reason I thought it’s worth including it on my list. Have a read for free.
Monopol, August 2013
Another one of those covers that gives me a headache, but no one can’t say that it won’t draw your attention… Now pass me a Grand-Pa…
– 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
– Find a cover we should know about? Tweet us @marklives and @mediaslut
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