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This is the most common approach to magazine cover design and it usually consists of one or few persons on the cover, looking at the camera, preferably smiling. You can see this approach in almost all celebrity magazines, almost all fashion magazines and men’s magazines. In many cases the person featured on the cover sells that issue. This is why some celebrity sells more covers than the other.
Some magazines go for a different approach and that is to present cover person in an unusual way. Not looking at the camera, maybe shot sideways, not smiling and so on. It all depends on the nature of the publication. For example, some magazines can have a person on the cover with a grumpy look on its face.
With a travel magazine obvious choice can be some beautiful landscape photography, or in a food related magazine some delicious meal is obvious choice for the main cover image.
The main thing to point out here is that the nature of the photography has to correspond with the style of the publication. Of course you can see the examples that deviate from this norm, but this will rarely happen.
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