Cover story

Washington Post, Earth Day covers

22 April 2019 Jeremy Leslie

Cover story, Illustration, Photography

To mark Earth Day 2019, The Washington Post Magazine has highlighted the key aspects of climate change, publishing a special edition of 24 ‘cover’ designs, each promoting a story The Post has written over the past year.

The introduction to the issue opens, ‘A successful magazine cover accomplishes a few things: It elevates the importance of an article; it finds a way to grab your attention; it persuades you to learn more about the topic at hand. Which is why a series of magazine covers may be the perfect way to read about climate change — a topic where the grim particulars all too often seem to run together.’

The series of images make great use of photography and illustration and are a clever way to focus minds on the subject of climate change. They add further, timely weight to the messages of David Attenborough’s ‘Climate Change: The Facts’ and the international Extinction Rebellion campaign.

Here’s the entire series, with image credits.

Craig Cutler