A while ago I'd bookmarked this 'article' about Manchester United fans who'd been asked to design the programme cover for the 170th Manchester Derby as a competition. The readers of this website and the people that entered this competition are very much the target market for our own programmes, and seeing which entries Manchester United selected to as the finalists and which ones the article chose to praise will give us an indication of what's suitable for our programme covers.
They chose these 2 as the finalists
The article also praised these
A theme throughout was sans-serif typography, which suggests this is the way to go with our covers. The majority of them all were illustration based, which is reassuring given that we're using illustrations. Despite them all looking nice, none of them look like they could be easily extended as a back cover, it's going to be important to consider this when planning our own.
Fanzines
Fanzines also exist within football, although it's a dwindling thing at the moment, but because of the printing and cost restrictions on fanzines, they tend to be in black and white, occasionally having colour covers. Out of the 4 teams that Joe and I are doing covers for, only Liverpool still have a fanzine running - Well Red.
The covers for these fanzines have a similar old-fashioned aesthetic to some of the older programmes Joe found at the Football Museum, and given that Fanzines aren't very common any more, we should probably stay away from this sort of aesthetic.
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