A popular adage says "there is no such thing as a good magazine with bad cover". It clearly hints the importance of an attractive cover magazine printing. A well-designed cover has the magic formula to create curiosity about the inside content and thus, attract readers to buy and read the stuff. Therefore, the magazine cover acts as a catalyst to bring more sales. For instance, GLAM magazine. It is a well known-magazine in Malaysia that attract middle-age to buy. The content of GLAM magazine does not bore the reader to read, but also help to build interest in fashion.
However, there are 7 elements magazine:
1. Masthead: what does masthead mean? It is the unique name of each magazine and also font. The name will represent what kind of content they will like to convey to their readers. For example, GLAM is the name of the magazine above. It shows a glamours look. Next, the font used in this magazine is Theano Didot. The font is readable and catches the reader's attention to buy the magazine.
2. Selling line: The selling line usually have to be a really short, precise, sharp description and tagline of a magazine. Usually, this will represent what type of magazine that they delivered. A magazine will always use a catchy but nice to write in front of their cover page. For instance, GLAM's selling line is gaya lebih anggun mewah. In my interpretation, the selling line tries to convey the message of rich with style and glamours.
3. Datelines: The datelines means the month and year of a magazine. Different month, different years has a different style that the magazine would like to deliver. Example, for this GLAM magazine it says JUN 2013.
4. Main image: each magazine has it owns a focal point that attracts readers to read. They would place a celebrity, models, an object, athlete or even minimalist items. However, in this GLAM magazine, they put a well-known equestrian Malaysia which shows girl empowerment, bold, young and attractive. And she is Quzandria Nur, Malaysia's iconic equestrian
5. Main cover line: Most magazine would put their main cover line the biggest in the magazine. And it is usually taking up about a quarter of the cover area. Meaning that it is the most outstanding line among others. In this matter, GLAM magazine put SUMMER BLOSSOMS near Quzandria's arm.
6. Cover line: the cover line is a bubble story in the magazine. A subtopic of a magazine that editor trying to convey to a reader what the most important content on the magazine. For instance, GLAM magazine put "what to wear? where to shop? and korner mak dating"
7. Barcode: Every magazine would definitely not missing out to put a barcode on their magazine. Each barcode has different coding that represents the monthly magazine. For example, GLAM put the barcode on the bottom right side of the magazine.