Eye Magazine

With their multiple pictures, blocks of angled type and fluorescent Pantone colours, the covers of the big-circulation weekly magazines might not appear in the D&AD annual. But they are as intensely designed and crafted as any yellow-pencil winner.

Next Wednesday 16 December art director Andy Cowles, the award-winning IPC editorial development director, will reveal the secrets of making covers that sell in his EDO lecture at Pentagram.

Full details at editorialdesign.org.

Eye is available from all good design bookshops and online at the Eye shop. For a taste of the magazine, try Eye before you buy.