"Today, the art of the magazine cover has been vanquished by celebrity worship and bad taste. Designers are simply fulfilling the dictates of their industry, not unlike the paint person on an auto assembly line.
Innovation, creative expression, or even cleverness has been mostly abandoned. Artistic considerations are limited to how much retouching the celebrity headshot requires in Photoshop and how many headlines can be crammed in before the cover looks too 'busy.'
The result: A world in which it's difficult to tell the difference between Playboy and Harper's Bazaar without cracking them open."
-The Decline of Western Magazine Design-
