POSITIVE EXAMPLE
This cover of Russian Vogue is clean and balanced, the text is secondary to the model's garment and the cover title. The model appears to be centered, and even though she isn't, the eye is still drawn into her first and then completes the circle from top left, down and around to the right side of the cover.
NEGATIVE EXAMPLE
Unlike their Eastern Europe counterpart (and really all of their other non-American brands), this cover is over the top, busy and the coloring doesn't allow the viewer to easily read the text. The cover is asymmetrically balanced, however there is no graceful glancing movement for the eye to follow. Of course, Vogue's message is to promote Kirsten Dunst in her movie Marie Antoinette in the September issue, but the ever so important page count for fall spreads and other feature stories are difficult to read and our only expectation is the ostentatious spreads we hope to find illustrating the Queen's lifestyle with the year's fall fashion angle.
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