OMG! STAR EXCLUSIVE!!
Ok, so my roommate gets this magazine. I hate to admit it, but I do read these from time to time. They're nice for when you don't want to really read, but you need a mental break. Anyway, pick any place on the front cover and you can tell that it needs help. Most of the typeface used in this cover are in all caps, or sans serif. There's no variation, and the whole all caps with exclamation points seems way over done on the cover as well as within the magazine. Personally, it just looks trashy (no reference to who's on the cover of course), but the colors are all over the place and too bold. I find them visually overwhelming and full of 'noise'....p.s. ya'll here that they're finally going to burry Anna?
posted by enchilada @ 10:59 PM
3 Comments:
i agree that they are not well designed, but i think they were smart to make all of that noise and chaos, because it triggers a part of us that makes us pick it up to find out whats going on. So its a smart bad design.
If I was a trashy gossip magazine I would at least make an attempt to have good design. If you had a good cover design maybe more people would believe all the crap inside and want to read it! I think People magazine has the right idea...not great design but it doesnt scream trash either!
this looks like the designer just typed the word "star" in the first typeface he found. it looks like there is no thought put into it.
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