MediaSlut (@MediaSlut)’s choice of the best international and South African magazine covers this week:
- Bloomberg Businessweek
- Interview (Germany)
- Sync
- Volkskrant Magazine
- rooi rose
- Food & Home Entertaining
INTERNATIONAL
Bloomberg Businessweek, 15 June 2015
A great contender for Magazine Cover of the Year, with clever use of cover lines and a very important cover story illustrated brilliantly!
For its Code Issue, Bloomberg Businesswek asked writer-programmer Paul Ford to write a single essay of 38 000 (that’s A LOT of pages!) to explain to dummies like me “what IS Code?” and, by looking at the digital version, it’s pure brilliance!
What’s even better is that this story lives “cross-platform in print, on the Bloomberg Business website, mobile, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Radio, and at the upcoming Bloomberg Technology Conference: Code and the Corner Office.” Make sure you read the digital version here!
Interview (Germany), July/August 2015
Oh, wow, Interview Germany’s four-way split covers are all beautiful in their own right!
Featuring Paris Hilton and Emma Stone (as the safe options), and Stella Lucia and the very interesting and beautiful Conchita (on its “Limited Edition” covers), but, oh me, which would I choose?!
Sync, Issue 3
Worth a mention for its revolving “o”. Maybe not revolutionary (sorry, just had to!) but clever, right?
Volkskrant Magazine, 13 June 2015
Blooming-ballooning-brilliant! The cover story is about the “plight of the fat man”, and it’s illustrated this so creatively with the use of the two balloons and the drawings on them!
It reminds me a lot about the J/M November 2014 cover (see below) that won my no. 3 position in last year’ss International Magazine Cover of the Year.
SOUTH AFRICAN
rooi rose, July 2015
The rooi rose team deserve a pat on its back for placing the über-fabulous Jackie Burger (ex-ELLE editor) on its cover.
Why? She may not be a celebrity per se, but she is a celebrity and personality in her own right. She’s South Africa’s own Anna Wintour —just a much more friendlier and fab version, and I wish her new venture Salon58 all the success in the world.
Here’s what people are saying on Twitter:
How fabulous is Jackie Burger on the latest cover of @rooi_rose magazine – definitely our cover of the month! http://t.co/lPH4TWQdtF
— Elrico Bellingan (@Luxo_Blog) June 13, 2015
@Jackie_Burger_ jy is tydloos, beeldskoon ek is stomgeslaan. Treffende voorblad @rooi_rose #Inspired
— corliapienaar (@corliapienaar) June 17, 2015
@Jackie_Burger_ jy lyk stunning!@rooi_rose lekker leesstof vir die roadtrip #personalstylist #stylementor pic.twitter.com/m8wB0kwPGi
— Marilize de Clercq (@stylewithMDC) June 18, 2015
Food & Home Entertaining, July 2015
Beautiful styling and photography, all coming together with the layout and finished product.
I wish there were an option where a reader (me!) could order everything on the cover for home delivery during these cold winter days! YUM!
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