The nominees are up for The Maggies – a smartly-named award for the best British magazine covers. Looking through the list, there are some great ones and some arb ones... and I couldn't help wondering whether any of them would have passed the mandatory Media24 requirement of slapping your entire Contents page onto the cover (because, y'know, the more coverlines the better).
I'm weird like that: I prefer the approach of The New Yorker or the old George Lois-era Esquire, where your cover is like a stand-alone work of art.
Of course, these covers are pretty and all... but I don't know if they'd make me want to buy the magazine. Which I suppose is where the unwritten coverlines rule comes in.
