Azucena Avila: January 2014

Friday, January 31, 2014

Magazine Covers

Early Magazine Cover

Cosmopolitan, published 1893, shows a commonly used way that magazines of his period used the cover to show the table of contents, a cover line or two, and the name of the magazine.

The Poster Cover


Rolling Spirit published January 2001. This cover doesn't need flashy headlines or hooks to catch the reader's attention. The reader is automatically wanting to learn more of George Harrison's death. It's an intriguing method of publication.

married to type


This late 1972 issue of Vogue, has so many words that distracts from the cover photo. Vogue even underlined certain sentences, as if to say " This is important, You have to read this!! " For me, personally, there are just way too many words.

In The Forest Of Words


This Guitar World published in August 1992 is just completely engulfed in words, designed specifically to catch the reader's attention, telling the reader that information is a fountain of knowledge in this magazine.

My Self Portrait

I think for the masthead I'm going to put Topman OR Vogue, one of those two.

1. Adobe Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw, and Photo Shop
2. Photographers, web designers, video, 3D artists, medical imaging, forensic research.
3. Adobe Bridge is made to organize and to keep track of all your photos. You can also rate and review your images. It also makes it easy to share photos. Camera raw makes it easy to change exposure and coloring without worrying about messing it up because of the easy user friendly interface. You can also use non destructive cropping. Photoshop allows the use of powerful tools to add masks, take away blemishes or other unwanted details. It enables you to create photos while otherwise very difficult. Web designers use it on illustrations.
4. The crop tool allows you to crop out parts of the image.
5. The lasso tool allows you to select objects or parts by hand tracing them
6. The text tool allows you to print on text
7. To undo hit command-z
8. Go to window, history and click on the step you would like to revert to
9. Go to Image and select Image Rotation.
10. You click on the "no smoking circle" to get rid of a crop
11. You are telling Photoshop what dimensions to change the photo to from a certain ratio
12. Newsletters and newspapers are likely to require resolutions in the range of 150 to 200 pixels per inch
13. Magazines should have at least 250 PPI

Magazine Cover Preview - Favorite Cover

New York, November 12, 2013: "The City and the Storm"
Shot on the Wednesday evening after Hurricane Sandy hit, Iwan Baan’s photograph of Manhattan, half aglow and half dark, captured the larger story of a powerful city rendered powerless. A true viral phenomenon, the image became an instant icon of the event—magazine cover that many New Yorkers have saved for posterity. In fact, a poster version was offered for sale by the Museum of Modern Art.

This portrait shows an amazing example of the after-effects that Hurricane Sandy made. The lighting's very cool because it shows half of the city turned on and the other half turned off, which in my point of view I see it like half of the city is sad because of what had done Hurricane Sandy. It almost creates a sort of barrier between one side and the other. It communicates a sense beautiful chaos in the eyes of the reader.