THE WORLD'S BEST MAGAZINE COVERS
These front covers are among the 30 nominees for The Maggies, a U.K. poll to find the world's best magazine front cover of the year.
The inaugural competition also aims, as the organisers say, to ".. celebrate the best cover of the past 12 months whilst also growing the focus on the magazine industry as a whole."
As you can see there are some truly iconic front covers from global magazines, competing against rather obscure and niche titles from around the world.
This event is one of a number globally that aim to reward the best cover designs. I'm aware of at least two that are centered in Asia. Some magazines in Thailand do a good job with their covers but I'm not aware of any that have won regional or global awards in recent years.
Perhaps someone here should start a 'Best Magazine Covers in Thailand' competition purely for the locally-based media?
3 comments:
Absolutely - a best covers competition would be great for the print world here.
Can I nominate this issue of Director? :-)
You're biased :-) but nomination accepted.
In all seriousness I am going to launch something here later this year. I will pick what I consider to be the best 12 or 15 covers from Thai magazines, and then let everyone vote.
If anyone else would like to nominate a front cover from a Thailand-based (English and Thai) magazines please email me or leave comments here.
In all seriousness, I think it could be a great way to promote the creativity and skills of the print industry in Thailand.
Many publishers think purely of advertising but there are a lot of talented designers and creative people working in the industry and a competition like this would bring more attention to print media at a time when it needs to battle against content on the web and (generally) decreasing ad revenue.
Looking forward to it.
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