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• Robert Newman commented on Happy Earth Day! The Greatest Environmental Magazine Covers
  The bench is pretty thin for environmental covers. There aren't nearly as many as you would think. And if you're looking for covers that specifically reference some kind of environmental activism, it's even thinner. I think the reasons for that are twofold. 1) As Andrea points out, all those green issues generally did not sell well, and environmental issues in general have not been blockbusters on the newsstand. 2) I'm going out on a limb here, but I think it's true that most magazine editors have little passion or fluency in environmental issues. It's just not something that is a...
• Andrea Dunham commented on Happy Earth Day! The Greatest Environmental Magazine Covers
  Sucks we can't post images as responses. but here's what i'm talking about: http://samababy.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/madonna-vanity-fair-2.jpg Sure, it's admittedly a BARELY green cover of VF's Madonna, but it constitutes attractive design, if not simply strong photo direction from I assume Annie L that i think trumps Newsweek's attempt at it by a long yard. To Bob's point about magazine editors having little fluency in environmental issues, I think it's fair to say that they went about as far as they could in this case, to meet green issues still sell the damn thing. That's fair and wise, in my opinion; pick your...
• Roberto commented on Happy Earth Day! The Greatest Environmental Magazine Covers
  Late to this post, but perhaps of historic interest was the heyday of Garbage Magazine, The Practical Journal for the Environment. As AD I got the chance to redesign it and capitalize on our "No Cover Lines" (well... one eyebrow) policy. Here's a sample from 1991: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t125/rjgeorgex/Garbage_cover_Recycle_web.jpg...
• Mutuelle santé commented on Great illustrated covers from the Santa Fe Reporter
  Great magazine, am a fond reader of the santa fe reporter, good job on the articles, keep it up....
• Andrea Dunham commented on Chasing Beauty
  so elegant and two noble worthy causes... surprising in a good way to see Humane Society brought to attention in this manner. Beautiful work on the design, BK....