Lucire 22 cover: how it turned out

Feb 28, 2007 at 1:49 AM
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Just so folks know, despite being very near the deadline, I managed to get in a lot of feedback from this blog for Lucire’s latest cover:

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The photograph is identical, but the type is more restrained. I’m glad we took out the red type. One cover line was removed. We also decided on a widely spaced ‘Tenth Anniversary Year’ underneath the masthead.

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It turned out very good.

Thank you, Red Pen! Hard achieving that balance: editorially, the content is somewhere where Elle or Marie Claire is; visually, it’s more W.

Wow, I feel like a big-time editor! Ha ha.

I do like the improvements. Very nice.

Thanks, Maureen! We’re all about inclusiveness here at Lucire!

Just a thought...

I suppose 'red type' could be used if it was utilised to highlight the 'flagship' article for the mag - if there is such an article - since a red block is used as a background for the magazine's name. This would aesthetically link the magazine with the said 'flagship' article. Great cover design. Not too many contrasting colours, shapes or textures - makes information-processing simple as far as the potential reader is concerned.

p.s. thanks for the comment at my site. Wonder if anyone else got that point. cheers bro.

You’re totally right, Ed: red type should have been used for a stand-out piece. Not to say that the ones we have aren’t great, but they needed to share more or less equal billing.
The piece you wrote on the UK was pretty darn good. I’m sure folks would have got your point. If not, then hopefully the comments help!

Yes, the type you use at present is great - especially since the angularity of the text complements with the angularity of the red block. I don't think people consciously appreciate the complementarity of these elementary components consciously. But they will definitely do so at a subconscious level - when one considers the type of people fashion magazines appeal to.(different types for different types:)) That is what makes people think that a particular design is 'great' - though they will not really be able to articulate their (subconscious) reasons why. Interesting isn't it.

I hope the idea i was trying to get forward with regards to the article on British Identity got through. Unfortunately, ideas easily get cast aside these days as my utilisation of a 'blogging' platform makes every 'blogger' my peer. Being a 'blogger' gives one a sense of being amongst peers which might inhibit consideration of views as one might afford a 'published author'. Pah! We are living in the Age of the Celebrity. To be expected. Don't think the people here in singapore would give it much thought though. They tend to deem irrelevant just about anything - other than fashion - that happens beyond their own little picket fences. The length of the article - along with the non-sensational and non-trivial nature of the topic - doesn't help either.

Your comment on Voxlavia was astute indeed. Hope Vox considers it, if not my views.

Lucire 22 cover: how it turned out

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