After we introduced you to the world of magazine covers, this post will give you some general tips about cover design and headline writing. Of course you will have to be the judge if these concepts will work for your audience and we would like to point out that these are the concepts for magazines that rely on newsstand sales.
You can pick the best magazines by their covers. Cover without a focus is a magazine without a focus. Bad covers belong to the bad magazines. They say you cannot judge a book by its cover, but if we apply this phrase to magazines it is just the opposite. You can judge the magazine by its cover.
A good cover page should force a potential buyer to make a decision to buy a magazine. The good cover is the sales figure driver for your magazine.
