Vote for AQ: ASME's Best Covers Contest from March 3 to 9
Vote for AQ: ASME's Best Covers Contest from March 3 to 9
Readers can vote for Americas Quarterly on the American Society of Magazine Editors' Facebook page.
Updated March 7—Americas Quarterly is asking its readers to vote for AQ for Best Cover of 2013! The competition ends March 9 at midnight.
AQ is competing for the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) Readers’ Choice Award on Facebook, in the "Brainiest" magazine category. The Fall 2013 issue of AQ, "Media in the Americas: Threats to Free Speech," is competing for best cover.
Readers can support AQ by liking the cover on the ASME Facebook page between March 3 and March 9. Vote by liking the cover here.
For the AQ issue on freedom of expression in the Americas, the magazine wanted a simple, arresting image to capture the importance and human aspect of the subject. AQ's Artistic Director Donald Partyka cropped the photo dramatically and used a typewriter typeface to reference a printed newspaper or tabloid, capturing the seriousness and the newsworthiness of the topic. Partyka explains his inspiration for the cover: "The image of the mouth being torn away from a photograph of a face was particularly relevant. To me, it represented not just losing the ability to speak, but taking away something that was already there—similar to the way we discuss diminishing rights of free speech in the issue."
