1. Image Based- The style of "image based" magazine covers are usually the most popular cover. This style is where the subject of the image is very clear, it relates to the subject of the magazine, and the image is a photograph. The subject of this type of cover maybe an object or most commonly a person.
2. Illustration Based- The style of "illustration based" magazine covers is very similar to the "image based" cover. The difference between the two popular cover styles is that this style of "illustration" uses drawings, or computer animated. This type of cover is usually used in a comics, children magazines or smaller magazines.
3. Type Based- The style of "typed based" magazine covers is that the cover page is just mainly text. The title and subject in text are typed out, which takes up the whole cover page. Sometimes in this style of cover page there may be a small image in the corner to add some detail, but the text usually takes up the whole page.
4. Concept Based- The style of "concept based" magazine covers are a mixture between all three styles of covers. This is a cover that wants to send a strong message in different ways, such as pictures, illustrations, and bold text. These magazine cover styles are usually found in cooking magazines, weekly news magazines, and celebrity magazines.
The relationship between words and pictures on magazine covers is that they both have to get the message of the magazine across. They need to connect to each other to make the message clear and for the whole magazine to make since. One example of a bad magazine cover is a puppy on the cover of a food magazine, one example of a good magazine is a gymnast on a gymnastics magazine.
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