11 posts tagged “cover”

This one is a classic. Isaac Hayes, look out!

A few weeks ago, I posted a video of Rick Wakeman playing ‘Life on Mars’. Here’s one that’s very left-field, especially the little bits extra from the second verse on.

[Cross-posted] I know some readers are fascinated about how a cover takes shape at Lucire. Again, before these go into the archives, we present the making of the shoot from issue 24.

Make-up with Emma Foley

Photographer Kelly Thompson discusses the shoot

Vanilla works on the hair

Thompson shoots Kenzy Cheeseman

   If you have been following this blog, then you’ll recognize Kelly Thompson’s name as the illustrator who exhibited her Women of Your Dreams works at Good as Gold last week. The exhibition is still on for those in Wellington, down at Good as Gold in Victoria Street.

Credits for ‘Hypnotize’
Photographer Kelly Thompson
Stylist Laura Ming-Wong/sweetCHILLI
Hair Vanilla
Make-up Emma Foley/Vanilla
Models Emma Weenik/Clyne, Zippora Seven/Red 11, Kenzy Cheeseman/the Agencie
Stylist’s assistant Ephrem Hannah
Assistants Lucy Aitchison, Alex Bull

Regardless of politics, I still feel this is one of those classic typographic works on a par with some of the best US designs of the 1960s. I immediately think of the greats like Milton Glaser.

[Cross-posted] I received a very nice email from Amber Peebles, the MTV New Zealand host, who is on last month’s Girlfriend cover in New Zealand. I must say I do like this Girlfriend cover: it’s very Amber, and very fresh.
   As some who follow this blog know, Amber appeared as the first New Zealander on a printed Lucire cover (not counting the prototypes we did in 2004). She wrote:

Thank you so much for gracing me with yours. It has put me in a very different light. It’s amazing what exposure like that does to people’s perceptions.

   Lucire was not Amber’s first cover—I remember Madison in New Zealand (the original one, not the Australian one that went and registered the name while the Kiwi one was still running)—but it’s nice to know that after 10 years, we continue to have that positive halo effect for people.

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It’s probably time we had another post at the fashion magazines’ group at Vox—this is the latest Lucire cover, shot by Eric Walkin. I’ve already had some good feedback on this one, including from Voxers, so thank you!

These may or may not be the next covers for Lucire. One is shot in Paris, the other in LA (Lost’s Elizabeth Mitchell, who plays Juliet). There are two more in the offing, and the cover lines haven’t been put on yet (though they will follow suggestions made by Voxers last month). Any preferences, bearing in mind that dark covers, traditionally, do not do as well in New Zealand?

Lucire 23 draft cover

Lucire 23 draft cover_Liz

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I hope folks like the new Lucire cover. We had to change it after modifications saw the cover lightened, which resulted in the type disappearing. The question I still have is: are there too many cover lines? Don’t think we’ve done eight for a while.

I quite like this collection of magazine covers, not just because it includes Lucire. It is a snapshot of the Zeitgeist, typographically, stylistically, and culturally. See which celebrities are “in”, how prominent the type is, the overall design balance, and how the covers might work side by side. It’s reasonably current, too.