Art & Design &News Entropy | 10 Sep 2011
Reclaiming a Moment
Magazine Covers on a Topic Known All Too Well
Choosing the right magazine cover is a challenge in any ordinary week. But capturing the right sentiments surrounding the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks presented questions more fraught and delicate than most.
How could editors make their magazines distinctive without being distasteful, evocative yet not exploitative? And how could they present something fresh when so many of the images from that day have been seared indelibly into the nation’s consciousness ?
Many weekly news magazines used images of the World Trade Center towers, in forms both real and imagined. And despite the considerable differences in what magazines chose, there seemed to be one unanimous sentiment: avoid images of destruction and carnage. Editors and art directors instead opted for photographs, illustrations and headlines that with varying degrees of subtlety say, “Reflect, remember, carry on.”
Read the Feature by New York Times here
on 10 Sep 2011 at 12:56 pm 1.Nimesh Dadia said …
I think all these Magazine Covers are brilliant. I love the New Yorker, looks so snazzy till you see its reflection and the New Republic, very Art Deco ( I assume) and Economist , so restrained and subtle. Time Magazine’s cover is unappealing.
on 12 Sep 2011 at 10:17 am 2.Ashwin Panemangalore said …
Each of these express a thought in their own way I felt the Bloomberg Businessweek cover was striking So also was a lesser known mag called Newsmax