Genre Analysis:
Architecture Magazine Covers

Advice For Working in The Genre

Overall my recommendations for working in this genre are simple:

  • Use sans-serif typefaces for your titles, headings, and auxiliary information.

This will create bolder type that is more eyecatching for your viewer to latch on to.

  • Use a serif typeface for your main content.

This establishes ethos, and creates a feeling of formality in the content.

  • Use plenty of negative space in the elements of your cover.

You don’t need a cluttered cover with every piece of information. Choose what is most important and let your cover image speak.

Finally your goal is to convince a passerby that your magazine is worth checking out–especially over your competitor’s.

To this end make sure you are utilizing your graphic design skills to make effective choices that grab viewer attention.