by MediaSlut (@MediaSlut) My choice of the best international and local magazine covers in MagLove this week:
- Empire UK
- TIME
- Newsweek
- Various MH17/Putin covers
- Food & Home Entertaining
INTERNATIONAL
Empire UK, July 2014
After a reader poll, EMPIRE magazine has released its list of “301 greatest movies of all time”, and the subscribers will be the ones receiving this brilliant cover!
But does this image of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) frozen in carbonite refer to The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi (the second and third instalments of the original Star Wars trilogy)? You’ll have to read the mag to find out!
Whichever one it is, it’s just really cleverly done!
TIME, 4 August 2014
MH17 and Putin are still on a lot of people’s minds, and TIME has brilliantly illustrated how flight MH17 is following Putin like a shadow…
Newsweek, 1 August 2014
Newsweek also has a chilling MH17/Putin cover — Putin looks very cool, while the reader sees the reflection of ‘an object’ blowing up… Chilling!
More Putin/MH17 related covers this past week…
I thought I’d continue with a few other MH 17/Putin covers, even though they’re not as good as the TIME and Newsweek covers; yet they all tell an important story in their own right, and I thought you might also find these of interest.
LOCAL
Food & Home Entertaining, August 2014
Locally, Food & Home Entertaining takes the cake for its “Salvador citrus drizzle & cream cheese cake”, which makes me yearn for summer.
It’s not just the colourful citrus pieces that draw attention — the ‘cake cutter’ on the left with cover lines is a really smart and creative move!
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MagLove by @MediaSlut is a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week, recognising well thought-out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three-in-one) covers and celebrating the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them. The (for now anonymous) blogger behind MediaSlutknows way too much for his own good about media in South Africa, magazines in particular. His mission is to show when SA magazines fail but, most importantly, also when they succeed. If you’re looking for a library about SA magazines and news, this is your one-stop pitstop.
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