Unconventional Magazine Covers

One of the most popualar unconventional magazines is RAYGUN  by David Carson. It is considered very contraversial due to its unconventional designs. It was first published as an alternative rock and roll magazine in 1992, it explored experimental magazine typographic design.

Many of its front covers are seen as very unusual and use strange features such as;

• An upside down image
• Abstract wrting
• Foriegn writing
• Random images
• Obscure placement of things

My Opinion

Although Raygun uses strong counter types within the magazine and goes against the majority of the codes and conventions for music magazines I find that the unigue design is intriguing and interesting as it deviates from the typically magazines.

However, the exremity it goes to to be unique and lack of housestyle is offputting to the consumer as it does not allow a familiarity that magazine readers look for.