What makes a good magazine front cover?

• When designing a cover you can play around, you should remain within your concept and style and you should know what to exaggerate.
• Each cover needs one headline that will pop out. In size, in colour, in attitude.
• The cover page should have a focus point. It can be a model in the image it can be a headline or a number, but something has to draw the eye.
• Divide your cover in three sections. Big one with main cover line, smaller one with few cover lines and the smallest one with few more cover lines.
• Most magazines like the magazine layout to be consistent from one edition to another and the same applies to the cover, this is why notorious magazines tend to keep their style for a pretty long time until they change it.
• Merge the image and the background
• The use of colour on covers is extremely important and as with any area of design, the colour-scheme that you choose will affect the tone and overall feeling of the cover.