Journal tagged by Front covers

Multiple front covers are everywhere today. They can be the result of a clever idea, but are often just a sign of an indecisive creative team. As The Gentlewoman launches its first split cover run, we asked editor-in-chief Penny Martin...

The new book ‘Uncovered — Revolutionary Magazine Covers’ offers real insight into magazine-making through a series of interviews with the people behind a selection of front cover designs from the last fifty years. Author Ian Birch worked at Time Out...

Happy 25th birthday Wired! As Ian Birch’s book ‘Uncovered’ arrives in shops, here’s his latest cover post. Current editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson asked original creative directors John Plunkett and Barbara Kuhr to design this anniversary cover of the US edition (below)...

Cover image of Shaun Ryder by Peter Anderson. British music and lifestyle monthly Blah Blah Blah appeared in a joint transatlantic venture between MTV Europe and American Ray Gun Publishing in 1996. It followed the design thinking of the groundbreaking...

The second issue of London-based Swim collects another eclectic selection of work from its maker’s friends, this time on the theme Unseen. The work all comes from research and development, the bits and pieces that get forgotten as a project...

Ian Birch looks back at the third issue of Beach Culture, the magazine that made David Carson’s name before he went on to art direct Raygun. ‘A legendary cover which earned Carson more than 150 design awards. The magazine only...