Cover of the Week: Wired UK, March 2011 issue

Only five weeks into a new year and I'm raving about a Wired UK cover for the second time already in 2011. As so often in the world of Wired, highly-talented editor David Rowan has been grappling with a cover concept that has no obvious visual to bring it to life.

This month it's privacy and the subject of how much to share (or not) online is tackled in three outstanding essays inside the mag.

The cover David has come up with (image left) has a fabulous 3D quality to it, the face of the reader ripped off to reveal the main coverline - 'Your Life Torn Open'. I'm a big fan of coverline symmetry (I'm borderline OCD and think this spills over into my work at times!) so I really dig the four supporting coverlines positioned on the corners of the main image. Way to go Mr Rowan...

A limited number of copies of this issue have personalised covers featuring personal details culled from the web about the mag subscriber receiving it (image right). I'm really intrigued by personalised covers and would like to bring this approach to my own mag in 2011 if the right opportunity arises but I can see a fair number of readers getting freaked out by this if we step over the line.