# Magazine Cover **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [August 23, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167 "2003-08-23T04:23:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@lava](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lava)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/1 "2003-08-23T04:23:52Z")
Hello all, One of my little dreams is to launch a print magazine (kinda like what EthanM is doing). The magazine would be geared towards designers, and it would have Photoshop-Illustrator-Flash tips, Advertising Case studies, and designer related stuff, but also life articles, like music, movies, politics, etc. I spent some time today just playing around, thinking what a cover would look like, and I came up with this. What do you guys think? Here’s the link: [http://www.xxviii.net/lavaland/syntheticwhat.jpg](http://www.xxviii.net/lavaland/syntheticwhat.jpg) Thanks Raf ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/2 "2003-08-23T04:31:06Z")
Put naked chicks in and you will be famous :nerd: :stunned: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/3 "2003-08-23T04:35:01Z")
I would use a different font… :ub: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/4 "2003-08-23T04:36:08Z")
remember that print should be 150-300dpi and cmyk ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/5 "2003-08-23T09:16:08Z")
try to increase the font’s width - it’s probably not at 100% in PS… I’d change the font too and add some more extra pictures… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/6 "2003-08-23T10:14:14Z")
For a magazine geared towards designing, I would definitely play around with the typography and work with it more. Play around with the text a bit more, it looks so formal and boring the way it is now. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/7 "2003-08-23T17:54:49Z")
I printed a proof of the cover today, and it seriously looks entirely different from what I saw on screen, since you get a better sense of size and proportionality. I definitely need to make the title bigger - it’s just too small, and I need to make the headlines smaller. 28 was helping me with comments as I was making this, and one of the things that we concluded was that the cover looked too much like a magazine cover (since I took some inspiration from magazines I had). I think a magazine like this should have be more subtle. However, I’m keeping the picture of the girl - that picture is awesome. There’s a group of us who are bouncing back and forth ideas for this, and we plan to launch an online magazine and community soon. Eventually we’d move it to print. If you’re interested in helping us out and making a time commitment to this, pm me. I’m mostly looking for people who would help us develop content for it - such as interviews, etc. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/8 "2003-08-23T19:53:47Z")
you should probably find out who the girl is first…dont want to get sued on your first issue now do you? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/9 "2003-08-23T19:58:57Z")
it’s just a shot in the dark cover. A print magazine probably won’t happen for a year or two. And I got the site from sxc.hu - which is a free download, royalty free picture site. I can’t get sued for using that picture ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/10 "2003-08-23T22:34:21Z")
I can’t lie, it’s me. 🙂 Alright, no it isn’t. 😛 I’ll post my thoughts later on the relevant board. 🙂 Got a few other things to mention as well, so will do it all in one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/11 "2003-08-23T22:50:02Z")
Well move it then Kit O’donny (its a REAL Irish name) Please! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/12 "2003-08-24T00:39:56Z")
Needs more than just a background pic. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/13 "2003-08-24T00:44:35Z")
Yeah, and democrats will not win the whitehouse back. You should change that to… > DEMOCRATS ON CRACK See them scramble like morons around the southwestern states. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/14 "2003-08-24T07:07:44Z")
dont hijak the thread with useless political babel that wont affect the way anybody looks at any useful thing in their life. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/15 "2003-08-24T20:36:55Z")
didn’t mean to offend your non-hijacking nature morse, sorry for the sense of humor. Anyway, I think the cover art is splendid, however, in my opinion, the typography is a little monotonous and the black area at the bottom is a bit too tall. Also, just for flare, you could add a yellow corner stripe with some sort of announcement like… “Babel is a an SAT word I learned last period - More on page 143” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/16 "2003-08-24T20:43:13Z")
haha. I thought what you said was funny. My boss was sitting next to me when I read the thread, and she thought it was pretty funny as well. Funny because it’s sad. Sad because it’s true 🙂 As I said before, I’m going to make a couple of changes to the cover, and then I’m going to start focusing on the online part. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/magazine-cover/29167/17 "2003-08-24T20:52:46Z")
yeah, I was just picking at you but it is kind of true about those few Texans. All in all, I think it’s a cool concept for the cover but you’ll need something that will really jump out at people if you’re going to do it in print. it’s kind of oppisite ends of the spectrum when dealing with print and web b/c with print, it’s the cover that’ll attract first timers, and with the web, it’s the content (of course there is no literal cover), and vice versa, but either way, you’re going to need a heck of a lot of stuff to fill up between the covers so you’ll have a while to get the small stuff worked out.