10 Tips for Designing High-Impact Magazines
1. Don’t Be Shy With Your Cover Designs The most aesthetically pleasing magazines always have great covers. There’s no point spending time perfecting the inside pages of your magazine if casual browsers don’t pick up the issue to take a look. An attention-grabbing magazine cover design is vital for selling your magazine to readers and inviting them to delve deeper into the publication. That being said, your magazine cover design doesn’t need to be brash. A rainbow spectrum of color and an over-packed layout can look dated and cheap; but balanced, strong headers and sub-headings paired with simple, graphic callouts draw attention to cool magazine covers in a subtler way. Try sticking to the A B C rule, which is used by the designers of the most creative magazine covers. Stick to one A-heading (the magazine title), one strong (B) sub-heading (pulling out one article to be the main focus), and a larger selection of smaller (C) sub-headings. Almost every magazine cover uses this rule to
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