Thursday, February 16, 2012

Cosmo


Everyone has seen Cosmopolitan magazine in stores and most girls have either read an issue or two or are addicted (like me). It is the girl bible. The fact that I'm addicted to this magazine is beyond me. Every issue has some celebrity on the front shouting to the world that this magazine has all the latest and greatest gossip on every celebrity they could get on camera good or bad. Now I’m not one to care about what celebrities are up to. I don’t care if Snookie showed every guy in the world her who ha on live TV or which guy cheated now. Because the first thing everyone sees is a celeb that takes up the whole cover I originally didn’t give a thought to ever looking at the magazine. That is until my friend bought a copy and I started reading it for a story she told me about. Now I am a subscriber and I’ve noticed the other parts of the covers I didn’t see before because I couldn’t see past the celeb. Literally... Most of the time whoever is on the cover is covering half of the title. Most of the time this would be a bad thing because if you can’t see the title you don’t know what it is so the chances of picking it up and reading it are slim to none. Cosmo got around that, they are so popular that all you need to see is parts of the title to know it is Cosmo/the girl bible. The cover also features the biggest stories which you can bet one of them is about sex and you will see it in big letters on the cover. Also, just like how there is more than just celebrity gossip, there is a lot more than what’s on the cover. The cover is what draws people in even though it stays almost the same with every issue but the content keeps you hooked.
 
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1 comment:

  1. Nice! I never noticed that the cover girls cover the title. That does make quite a statement of how successful the magazine is. Great work at pointed out the various texts and what they bring to the cover as well.

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