Paper:"Cover Design - Intimate"
Year in School: College Junior
Class:Magazine Publishing
Date written:Fall 2002
Copy reads: SHANNYN SOSSAMON STORMS HOLLYWOOD, Also featuring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Katie Holmes, Kieran Culkin, Naomi Watts
Lower left reads: December 2002, $3.95 USA, "NAKED"
The covers for Intimate will be extremely artistic and eye-catching. However, I plan to do this with the cover
picture and not by what the cover says. I cannot stand magazines that feature a cutout picture of a star surrounded by
big and bold cover lines. I think this makes the magazine look cheap and messy.
Intimate will have the magazine name across the top of the cover. The picture will take up the entire cover. There
will be backgrounds with the picture, and no untidy cutouts or white backgrounds. The celebrity featured on the cover
will have his or her name in small type to one side of the cover. I also plan to include, in even smaller type, a few of
the other celebrities featured in that month’s issue. These names will be below the cover celebrity’s name. The main
attraction of the cover will be completely about the picture and not about the cover lines. This is the model I will
follow for the first issue, as well as the issues that follow.
