Enterprise//Research//Creative Review front covers.

Again, before developing our press ad for Creative Review, I decided to take on more personal research- this time looking at past and present covers of the magazine, to see the any styles that are frequently utilised in terms of methods of delivery, layout and format and colour schemes. More details are analysis written below each sourced image.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2011/03/buy_march_cov_er_0.jpg

Really inventive cover, whilst still looking quite minimal, clean, and crisp. Love the pictogram style used for the illustrations- a great form of visual communication- adding interest, but not "over- flourishing"- keeping it geometric and simple ensures that they cannot be easily misunderstood or misinterpreted.

http://www.inpublishing.co.uk/images/news/creative_review_jul11_2.jpg

A great cover to celebrate the "Special Issue: The Illustration Annual 2011"- simple, minimal vector style with separate images collectively creating the final illustrative type- like design- very my "cup of tea". Again, an example of how our own personal idea for the press ad could work quite well alongside Creative Review's existing style in terms of the rostrum-style photographic shot- again, photography being a means of visual delivery which the magazine actively utilise.

http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/images/creativefrontcover.jpg 

One of my personal favourite covers from Creative Review- something truly different and unique for the company, yet still quite fitting to their existing style. I love the hand-rendered approach to this very uniformed and detailed chart sketch- the textures created by the hand-rendered crayon block colouring gives the design so much more depth and character- really bold and brave to apply to what is usually considered to be a crisp, glossy cover- love this innovative method of delivery- a way of thinking we definitely want to practice within our enterprise group- just because a concept has been used, and proven effective, it doesn't mean you have to use it..."THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX".

http://www.curatedmag.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/creativereview-april-front.jpg

A great cover for the re-launch of Creative Review when the new square format was introduced. Along with the minimal colour palette, the clean, crisp art-deco- like geometric shapes help to give the cover a very modern aesthetic- with decorative elements, created in a very simple illustrative vector style.

http://www.garethholt.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/gareth-holt-front-cover.jpg

Perhaps my favourite cover from all of the Creative Review covers featured on this post, the photographic set up works so well- and the illuminated type gives a real sense of prestige and importance to the design- subtly stylish, but greatly considered and presented in terms of it's method of delivery. Photography is a method I'm really looking forward to experimenting with more within the development of our company and brand within this Enterprise module.

http://www.coverjunkie.com/uploads/t_1326290479.jpg

A great illustrative, zine-like style for the cover for Creative Review's latest edition. The bold monochrome colour palette makes this particular cover not only stand out from it's back editions, but also from it's contemporaries- being a particularly unique style amongst other design, arts, culture and lifestyle printed publications.