“A book cannot be judged by its cover while a magazine is always judged by its cover… hence, covers are critical for magazines.”
Releasing soon- TOP 100 COVERS we liked from the past year that were released in India.
Judging parameters for the ‘TOP 100 INDIAN MAGAZINE COVERS’ are considered by the panel of honorary judges –
Visual, Cover Headline, Typography, Copy, Appearance, Production Treatment (Matte, Spot UV, Foiling etc), Fixed Elements (Masthead, Time line, Price, Bar code, QR code etc), Special Elements (Peel out stickers, Badges, Offers, Announcements etc).
First round of shortlisting the cover is completed…300 out of 5000+ covers are on the table.
Releasing soon- TOP 100 COVERS we liked from the past year that were released in India.
68 Noticeable Magazine Covers in the last three months i.e. May-Jul 2024!
14 Noticeable Magazine Covers in the month of April 2024!
25 Noticeable Magazine Covers in the month of March 2024!
23 Noticeable Magazine Covers in the last month!
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15 Noticeable magazine covers in the last month!
Noticed 2 New magazine launches recently!
Noticed 11 Special editions recently!
45 Noticeable magazine covers in the last 45 days!
Noticed 4 New magazine launches recently!
35 Noticeable magazine covers in the last 2 months!
20 Noticeable magazine covers in the last 2 months!
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20 Noticeable magazine covers in the last month!
40 Noticeable magazine covers in the last two months!
Recent New Launches!
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20 Noticeable magazine covers in the last three months!
Only 10 years ago today, when I used to write for this blog, I used to get around 30 great covers every month. Even at times, many magazine covers had to struggle to make their place in the ‘Top 30 of the month’. Sadly, today the editorial quality of magazines has become so bad that even three months in a row, it is difficult to collect a total of 20 great covers. The condition of Hindi magazines is even worse, the benchmark has to be pushed too low to include one or two of them anyway. Only the publisher and editorial team is responsible for this bad condition, no one else.
A few of noticeable magazine covers from last couple of months!
It is really upsetting nowadays that I have to wait for 4-6 months to see good magazine covers those I can count easily on fingers… and then publishers crib that magazines are dying.
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INDIA 2021 – A flashback through the magazine covers!
People, Issues, Places and the Events of the week… that made the news!
An analytical study of covers of 1000+ issues of 70 Hindi Magazines!
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TOP 30 INDIAN MAGAZINE COVERS PUBLISHED IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE YEAR 2019
Why did we like them?
Broadly, for their newsstand appeal, editorial vision, visual communication, cover story lines, the design discipline and many other factors. But microscopically, they all have several reasons to be in the TOP 30 COVERS.
We have gone thorough more than 500 magazines published in India in English or Hindi language in the last quarter of 2019. Magazines were considered from all the genres including News, Business, General Interest, Lifestyle, Men’s, Women’s, Fashion, Home, Entertainment, Technology, Culture, Children, Arts, Travel, Parenting, Health, Automobile and Hobbies.
Covers for this study and for the representation purpose are sourced from newsstands, publications’ own websites & online magazine stores.
Round 2 Completed: 300 TOP COVERS are shortlisted!
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Cover Analysis of MUKTA Hindi magazine
A Couple of Noticeable Magazine Covers from this month
Releasing soon… Top 100 Indian magazine covers from the year 2017
Top Ten Indian magazine covers from the month of August 2017
Newsstand Observations
New Launches
MAIN HU KISAN - Sep 2017The most pathetic cover of any magazine I have seen so far!
Just look at the masthead - Main Hu Kisan, and then look at the main visual and the cover stories(?). Do you see any connection between the genre of the magazine (as its title suggests) and the main visual? It happens when a magazine is managed by a person with no publishing & editorial skills.
As a magazine critic, all I can say on this cover - What were they thinking?
BETTER PHOTOGRAPHY - Jun 2017They should realise that in order to make ‘zara hatke’ (or call it ‘extra ordinary’ cover) for the ‘special’ (anniversary) issue, they actually produce the worse cover! Look at the regular covers (All on the Right); they are focused, logical, thoughtful, disciplined, branded and are still creative unlike the ‘special’ cover (on the Left). In the name of ‘special’ you cannot do just whatever you want to do… at least the regular covers have strong connection between the theme of the issue, the main visual and the main cover story. Latest cover of BP anniversary issue is not even aesthetically pleasing.
MAXIM - Jun/Jul 2017One more badly designed cover! MAXIM’s 'HOT 100’ special issue…A good photograph… but poor visualisation…unattractive copy for the cover stories… weight imbalance… very indisciplined & basic mistakes of making a great cover of a special issue… looks very shallow issue by looking at this cover (Left). Some of the past covers (all on the Right) were great in comparison to this current issue… even that ‘only text’ cover was also better at least that one had minimum elements on the covers and therefore there was lesser scope left for the creative team for creating mistakes.
ELLE - May 2017Still lot to learn before Indian magazines go for such covers (left) in the line of foreign magazines (all on the right). This could be a great cover of ELLE (India) but they just spoiled the opportunity.
Top 200 Indian magazines covers from the year 2016
