Critique: Cover Stuff

This is going to be more of a nontraditional critique because I didn't present covers on Thursday (not all of the materials were in yet).

The class has gotten some feedback about not having enough variation of ideas. It's important to have distinctively different ideas that way we can get as many options to choose from as possible. So here is some brainstorming inspiration:

Here's one person's take on brainstorming for a magazine cover.

Here are a bunch of cool/weird/different conceptual magazine covers.

Here are the nominees for SPD's magazine of the year award, all of which had conceptual covers.

And finally, here are Ellen DeGeneres' ideas for her "O Magazine" cover.