25 Fresh Illustrated Magazine Cover Designs

A magazine cover is the line card of the newsstand. They announce to the globe the most recent gossip, news, world events and who is in 1st place. A magazine cover is the reading platform of someone who just needs to grasp a patterned down, un-detailed account of what's happening in the world or neighborhoods around them. Sometimes simply reading a magazine cover has all the pertinent info that someone needs to comprehend his or her specific interest. Typically just reading a magazine cover can hold all the information the reader will keep in mind a month or maybe per week or maybe a day when reading all the articles contained under that one magazine cover. To form an extended story short, a magazine cover is incredibly powerful. It will make obtainer buy an entire magazine only for what is on the cover.

Adding visual parts to your magazine cover design will typically build the distinction between a decent and a great magazine. Whereas illustrations will typically take lots of your time and talent to provide, the result's typically a surprising magazine cover design, which will extremely build an effect with your readers. The following showcase includes 25 samples of fresh illustrated magazine cover designs to help inspire you for your next project.

a+ Magazine, 2013

via Martin Schmetzer



Cover design for A+ Magazine, a french business publication based in Montreal, Canada.
The title was 'Les 50 meilleurs fonds pour investir en 2013', which means something like 'The best 50 mutual funds for 2013'. In other words, where to invest your money to make more money in 2013.

Chief Executive

via Martin Schmetzer



Cover design for Chief Executives biggest issue of the year’ : 2013 Best and Worst States for Business. The magazine is for CEO’s and some of the top CEOs in the United States. Designer: Martin Schmetzer.

Rivista NBA / Covers 2012-13

via Francesco Poroli



Covers designed for Rivista Ufficiale NBA in 2012-13.

SHEro

via Warner McGee



3D Illustration of my original SHEro character that was featured on the cover of 3D Artist Magazine Issue 24.

Cover Illustration for Dirt Rag Magazine Issue #170

via Kyle Stecker



Cover Illustration for Dirt Rag Magazine Issue #170.

Clase Premier / Tony Stark

via César Moreno



Cover illustration of Robert Downey Jr. for Aeromexico's Clase Premier Magazine.

JJK - March 2013: Music Issue

via Tommy Chandra→



JJK magazine cover and editorial illustration. For March 2013: Music Issue.

"Vivimilano" Cover Contest Entry

via Jacopo Atzori



Entry for a cover contest, drawn with ink on paper. "ViviMilano" is a spin-off magazine run by Corriere della Sera, that recently held a graphic contest for its first year of publications.

Influencia n°4

via Violaine & Jeremy



Influencia n°4 - La Jeunesse.

Covers

via Victo Ngai



Cover illustrations for various magazines.

Opere 34

via D'Apostrophe



With the issue 34 D'Apostrophe continues working on the art direction, the graphic design and the layout of the three-monthly Tuscan architecture magazine. The monographic issue deals with themes about the relationship with the city, architecture and territory. A relevant topic that, in the issue, deepens aspects related to the smart cities introduction on the regional territory correlating them with experiences of international cultural panorama.

D E L I R I U M

via V L A D I M I R



Cover illustration for La Peste magazine, issue No.8: Delirium. Watercolors, colored pencils and digital.

REVISTA CUADRO "PUNTO"

via Fernando Torres Rojo



TABLE Magazine La Salle University Pachuca, editing POINT.

Norsk Politi Cover

via Bartosz Kosowski



Cover and inside illustrations for the Norwegian Police magazine. The feature article describes different jobs in the police force. The illustrations were hand drawn with pencil, inked with Copic Multiliner SP and coloured in PS.

D&AD Student Award Brief - Little White Lies Super 8

via Andreea Niculae



Little White Lies cover - Super 8 issue. D&AD Awards 2012.

The Future of Food

via Zim And Zou



Cover illustration for Icon magazine 104, about the Future of Food. Inspired by 3D food printer technology.

MONSTRES ! ( BONBEK Magazine #4 )

via Seb NIARK1 FERAUT



Illustration for the cover of BONBEK magazine ( magazine for children ) - volume 4 - " MONSTERS " issue ( numéro " MONSTRES " ) & " Monstrorama " monsters game inside the mag.

Sport Magazine

via Mike Harrison



Illustration for the cover and inside pages of Sport, an award winning weekly magazine. With a circulation of over 300,000 it’s the largest sports magazine in the UK. What better way to get everyone in the mood for the olympics by using athletes who will be competing in the games as well as the kit colours of team GB.

Cover Tag Magazine

via Hugo Ceneviva



Cover of the TagCom Magazine for 2013.

Guia do Estudante - Covers

via Marcus Penna



A couple of covers for Guia do Estudante magazine.

a+ Magazine

via Martin Schmetzer



Cover design for A+ Magazine, a french business publication based in Montreal, Canada.
This issue is about how to take care of your personal finance and get rich. The title means 'A Guide for Healthly Personal Finance'. They wanted a strictly typographic cover with interlaced medical elements.

Live_Dertour OL 2012

via Maria Grønlund



Magazine cover suggestion for Dertour Contest.

ONEQ/ZUPI MAGAZINE NO.33/COVER ILLUSTRATION

via ONEQ pinups



The picture of ONEQ is published at ZUPI of the art magazine of Brazil.
It also became a cover picture of NO.33 of ZUPI magazine.

Rabzero

via Brandon Nickerson



A magazine cover for "Rabzero Magazine".

5280 Magazine

via Jordan Metcalf



Cover for April edition of the Denver City magazine, 5280. The client wanted the cover to have a spritual/positive feel with custom type that was a modernised reference to old religious texts.