The Analysis of a Magazine Cover

 

The picture is one of magazine covers of WIRED, a famous American magazine about network and electronic.

As we can see, the theme of this magazine is “THE FUTURE THAT NEVER HAPPENED”. It implies that with the progress of our technology, we can get hardly all unbelievable things, such as laser guns, self-driving cars, food in a pill, robot servants, vat-grown meat and even more. Apparently, it overstates the effects of the modern technology, in order to improve the consumption of the electronic products.

On the cover, the most attractive thing is a person dressed in gray, wearing a pair of headsets, which seems to have wires connected with the world on both sides, and looking amazed as well as enjoyable. The designers suggest that we keep in touch with the entire world every time because of the developing technology, and meanwhile, they use the close shot, meaning that this lifestyle is not far away from us and we will experience it no sooner.

Besides, we can find the cover is filled with gray, white and black. In my opinion, it is such serious and mysterious colors that convince the audience.

Of course, the cover also includes necessities like the logo and the name of the magazine.

 It is known that hardly all of the magazines have their own purposes, commercial or political. This magazine is included, too. It mainly encourages people to concern more on network and electronic.