The challenges of magazine cover art in the digital age
You can’t judge a book by its cover.
And if you do, you have no idea just how 19th century you are.
Whatever the origin of this pithy aphorism (widely attributed to Mr Tulliver in George Eliot’s The Mill on The Floss, saying how beautifully bound a book was), judging a book, a magazine or a person, by their cover is what we do all the time. Yet in this age of digi-everything, the challenges of making your cover art dazzle are greater than ever.