In their quest for newsstand “pop,” many magazines design their covers in such a way that the logotype is almost an afterthought. Titles of magazines are often partly blotted out by celebrity heads, torsos, hair, and other body parts. This April 2005 cover of Parents magazine demonstrates the perils of this design technique:
(Note that I never said this was the real cover. You can find a lot more of my designs via the magazine covers tag.)
(Inspired partly by a brief moment in a recent episode of Arrested Development involving Buster and an alarm clock.)
UPDATE, June 2005: This cover escaped from its moorings several weeks ago and has traveled all over the net, creating a small urban legend in the process. See this June 14 post for the story of how Snopes.com stepped in to debunk it.
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