The 40 most beautiful or clever covers from The Economist magazine past 25 years.
I have been reading the The Economist weekly since 1997. Its not only the writing that is excellent, but many of the front pages of this London weekly magazine are artwork of the highest level. I looked through the covers of the past 25 years, to pick my favourite covers. Here are my 40 favourites of the past 1250 editions.
New hope after Gaza war?
Bonus: Light in the tunnel metaphor vs tunell warfare in Gaza
Design features: Map
Right wing populism in Europe’s economic consequences
Design features: Graph
Kremlin and White house colluding against Europe?
Design features: Duotone, political leader
How Gaza war shatters the whole Middle East region
Design features: Map, metaphor
No one votes for the moderate parties, only right and left extremes in France
Design features: Optical illusion, national symbol
Artificial Intelligence’s implication for warfare
Design features: Typography, duotone color
Berlin’s famous traffic lights made sick
Design features: National symbol
China’s as future world power?
Design features: Metaphor
Erdoğan dismantles Turkish democracy?
Design features: National symbol, political leader
How China’s Covid strategy failed
Design features: Metaphor
Europe’s economy lags behind
Design features: Map, metaphor
Polarization of US politics
Design features: National symbol, metaphor
Germany’s Zeitenwende in foreign politics
Design features: National symbol, metaphor
China’s central planning economy to slow down?
Design features: Graph, political leader
War in Ukraine - Photo of Russian T-72 tank turret blown out
Design features: Press photo
War in Ukraine - Putin’s evil gamble
Design features: Map, political leader, metaphor
Long shadow of 9/11 terrorism
Design features: Typography
3rd World War to break out in Taiwan?
Design features: Map, metaphor
Viruses and vaccines - Forever war?
Design features: Metaphor
Aftermath of Black Lives Matter in USA
Design features: Typography 
Are income gaps exaggerated?
Design features: Optical illusion
Naval conflict between China and US
Design features: Optical illusion
Saudi women are (finally) allowed to drive cars
Design features: Optical illusion
Trump’s capture of the Republican party
Design features: Political leader
Facebooks demise
Design features: Typography
Russia invades Crimea
Design features: Map, national symbol
Spain’s economy
Design features: Typography, national symbol
Failure of Egypt’s politics
Design features: National symbol, metaphor
Mediterranean Euro Crisis
Design features: Duotone, map, metaphor
Global inequality
Design features: Graph, metaphor
Is China buying the world?
Design features: Political leader, national symbol
Brazil’s ecomomy
Design features: National symbol, metaphor
Nuclear war
Design features: Typography, duotone
Chinese perspective of the World
Design features: Drawing, caricature, map
Russia’s resource trap
Design features: National symbol
Another failed attempt of EU constitution
Design features: Foreign language
Religious root of civil war in Iraq
Design features: Press photo
