ASME picks top 40 magazine covers of past 40 years

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/10/17/topmagazine.covers.ap/index.html (story) and http://www.magazine.org/editorial/13730.cfm (covers)

Pretty cool list.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Many New York-based editors vote on this one? (And one 9/11 cover would've probably been enough.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I like the 1976 Steinberg New Yorker cover -- a simple joke told elegantly -- but the 2002 cover with the cutesy Islamic-sounding names for the neighborhoods struck me as lame then as it does now. (Plus, I disliked how the New Yorker started pimping out the merchandise for that one so quickly: less than a couple months after the cover ran, you could purchase a framed edition of it; now you can ever buy a shower curtain with the illustration on it. Dudes, it's not that clever.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

I loved that Dixie Chicks cover.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

I love the Dixie Chicks, and I liked the cover, but don't think it belongs on this list. I rate a little fewer than half, though I'm unsure of the significance of a small few. I think I still have that Afghanistan National Geographic.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I'm not sure that my love for the Newyorkistan cover is justified by anything more than hometown pride, but if there ever was a time for hometown privilege... it might not be clever to outsiders, but it was capable of inducing cathartic tear-causing-laughter in locals, and the marketing was a response to genuine and immediate demand.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

It is kinda hard to tell what the criteria were. Topicality obviously played a big role. Which I guess makes sense, since it was ASME. I'm sure art directors would pick a more interesting list, design-wise.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

(I'm pretty sure I still have that one too) (x-post)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)
(well, it says designers were among the panelists, along with editors. so it's your typical compromise mish-mash.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

or, "Youdon'tunderstandistan"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

that Afghanistan National Geographic.

I'd be grateful if anyone has a copy of that image minus the cover text. Prime desktop wallpaper material.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

too small though

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/americatransformed/photos/010924.afghanpic.natgeocove.jpg

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

also:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

I would have preferred to see the Art Spiegelman New Yorker cover with the cop playing the "41 Shots, 25 cents" carnival game.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

ok, I rate: 37 (Details), 35, 33 (Newsweek), 29 (Playboy), 28, 22-21, 19, 15-10, 7-3, and 1. I'd want to know more about 18 and 20.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

interesting

some seem selected for style/design, others for content/significance?

and what's up w/the "ties"??

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

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