Weekly Cover: Fantom

We welcome Fantom, a new photographic magazine from Italy. Issue 02 features Octopus Portrait by Yumiko Utsu. We think it could be a contender for cover of the year, and possibly make it into the top ten covers ever. In the meantime we can't wait for the next issue to hit the stands.

Popular yet banal

The Australian version of InStyle celebrated ten years of publishing with their April 2010 issue. The grid above shows all their covers to date. I'll admit here that I've never been a fan of the magazine, celebrities and their frocks are simply not enough to garner my attention for too long. I wonder why the cover images above bore me so much? Is is that all backgrounds are white? Is is that the format never changes? With one exception, John Travolta (the only male) appears with partner Kelly, cover images are all the same: glamourous celebrity wearing expensive frock smiling at the camera, and all from behind big words.

Weekly Cover: Interview

In September 2008, Warhol's Interview hit the stands with a bold new look and one of the best covers it has had in many years. Inside the design is truly inspirational and beautiful to boot. We love it, even if it does take twenty-seven flips to find out what's inside, and a further twenty-one flips to get to the first editorial feature.

Weekly Cover: Woman's Journal

Our first post is the August 1964 cover of Woman's Journal magazine featuring these adorable ginger kittens, David and Jonathan, photographed by Camera Clix. Each week, usually on a Monday, we'll be featuring a great magazine cover from the history of magazine publishing. The cover may be topical, contemporary, pertinent or simply one of our favourites.

A found drawing

We thought it might be nice to share a chuckle. We came across the July 2010 issue of Voyuer, complete with drawings made by a bored flier. While it as it the expense of a beautiful blonde, the drawing which surely was inspired by the 'hoofing it' heading nearby, is amusing. Elsewhere, a beautiful model gets a beard, there's a good drawing of a Lego man, and another woman gets a moustache and a nose strip - now that's random. We also liked the subtle eyeliner applied to Tom Cruise on the cover, making him that little bit more devilish.

Welcome to Flipfactor

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