Magazine Cover Assignment Your assignment is to create a magazine cover using either Photoshop or InDesign. Look at the examples of magazine covers below and notice the difference in styles among different magazines.

• Time Magazine uses a very simple and clean magazine cover style o It features a picture and usually only discusses one main story of the magazine

• Sports Illustrated always utilizes a picture of an athlete on their cover (Except the swimsuit editions) o Features one picture with a main story but also discusses other stories that might draw a reader in

• GQ is a men’s’ lifestyle and fashion magazine o Usually the cover features a picture of a well-dressed man that people would be interested in reading about

• Seventeen is the one of the busiest magazine covers o Seventeen is geared toward teenage girls so they are trying to grab their attention o Notice there are many different colors and font styles and the articles are geared toward teenaged girls

• Notice some similarities between all of the magazine o Features one main picture o All text is placed on the sides top or bottom leaving the middle open to focus in on the picture o All text is readable and colors of text is appropriate to the magazine

You are to choose a topic that you enjoy talking about. After you choose a topic you are to create a magazine cover that will feature the topic that you chose. You may use an existing magazine but you are to create a cover that does not already exist.

− Make sure that everything is laid out neat and organized on your magazine cover. − Make sure everything on your magazine cover is appropriate for school − You can use either Photoshop or InDesign for this project

Save as Magazine Cover 1 in your “End of Year Projects” folder.