Weekly Cover: Elephant

New-ish from the makers of Frame and Mark is art magazine Elephant. High production values are a given, elegant design expected and content that intrigues seems like an added bonus. What I love most about Elephant is what I discover in its pages. There is a sense of surprise, sometimes shock, but always great interest. It's this week's Weekly Cover because it has made roses work well.

Weekly Cover: Archive

We were pleased to pick up a few back issues of Lürzer's Int'l Archive recently. While a number of covers stood out, this one was easily our pick. Is it a tongue or sauce? It really doesn't matter, this is a clever, not to mention fun cover that sticks in the mind. While Archive is tailored to the advertising industry, there is much inside to excite and intrigue. Check out the back issues here.

Mess with marriage...

We started the week with a 1976 The Australian Women's Weekly cover featuring Prince Charles. With a new weekly cover about to appear, we thought we should close the week with a doodle featuring Prince Charles, but this time with Princess Diana by his side. Our doodler stumbled upon The Weekend Australian Magazine [3-4 April 2004] and added his or her flourish. The original image is captioned "Mess with marriage and marriage will mess with you." Judging by the scribe, we think our doodler was no fan of royalty.

Weekly Cover: Women's Weekly

Back when The Australian Women's Weekly was weekly and with Princess Di nowhere in sight, Prince Charles appeared alone on this cover from 1976. As far as covers go from the era, and considering the market, we think this is quite an interesting cover. The Israeli Army Diet cover line intrigues us - we'd be happy to shed half a stone. We're also pleased to report that the Weekly has chosen to put Australia's first female PM on the cover, Julia Gillard. We hope she wins this Saturday.

Weekly Cover: étapes

French design magazine étapes brings into focus the best of graphic design. Their covers are often intriguing with striking cover imagery that can be challenging, or like the example above, beautiful with a slightly disturbing edge. I only wish my French was better.

Creative capers

Flipping through The Australian Women's Weekly some months ago, I was delighted to stumble on this rather artistic reworking of a Nicole Kidman portrait. It's a striking use of texta and highlighter that would do Arlene TextaQueen proud.

I made this

Wallpaper* magazine recently gave readers the opportunity to design their own cover for their August 2010 issue. From a limited range of options a surprising array of covers resulted.

Weekly Cover: Design 1966

This week we go back to the June 1966 issue of Design, a magazine produced by the then Council of Industrial Design in London now known as The Design Council. This simple black and white cover image by Sam Lambert is balanced by the Design masthead in orange with just a single cover line.