the decline of the magazine cover. via stone cold pimpin'. some interesting points made about the blandness of magazine covers. jean snow linked to this page of chinese glossies awhile back. upon seeing them i was disappointed that most of them seem to be chinese versions of western magazines, and just as bland. when i first went to mainland china in '98 i was given some chinese magazines. the colour and style looked like something out of the 50s and they were appealing because of that. i somehow doubt you'd find things like that now though.