《新科学家》最佳封面编辑本段回目录
在《新科学家》杂志55年的历史中，已出版了2800多期杂志 – 哪期拥有最佳封面呢？ 在本期图库中，杂志社员工确定了他们最爱的封面–然而，您也可从我们自1989年开通的网上数据库，或更早期自Google Books上所提供资料，选出您自己最爱的封面。
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Jeremy Webb, editor-in-chief
Jeremy Webb，总编
15 March 1997
1997年3月15日
What do you need to make a great cover? An arresting image to draw the eye and cover lines that reward that curiosity by presenting an intriguing idea. I love the simplicity of the "Quantum espresso" cover: it conveys the weirdness of the quantum world in the most mundane of objects – a cup of coffee. The secondary cover line tells you that the coffee itself could be a supercomputer! I still think it's a compelling combination.
制作一个好的封面，需要些什么？一个引人注意的图像，来吸引眼球；表达出一种有趣构思的封面行，引起好奇心。我非常喜爱 "Quantum espresso（量子咖啡）"这期封面的简洁感，它在最平凡的物件 – 一杯咖啡中传递了量子世界的神秘。封面行第二行告诉我们，咖啡本身也可能就是一台微型计算机！我始终认为这期杂志的图像和封面行二者完美结合。
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Jeremy Webb
Jeremy Webb
1 April 2000
2000年4月1日
Received wisdom and hard-won experience says, "Never put a negative image on the cover." I love the black holes cover because it breaks that rule – in spades – and it sold well. We nearly had a civil war in the office over this – the original had one single large hole in the centre of the face, which was utterly sick-making. The final image was a compromise. Still, some readers wrote to tell us that they had to put it cover down on the table so as not to frighten the children. The moral behind this cover is, "If you are going to use a negative image, don’t pussyfoot around, do it with conviction."
公认的名言和来知不易的经验告诉我们：“永远不要以负面图像作封面。”我喜爱这张黑洞封面，因为它非常肯定地打破了这一原则，并且销售良好。关于这张封面，我们在办公室几乎打起了内战 – 最初，在脸部中央只有一个大洞，完全让人感觉不舒服。最后的图像进行了折衷处理。尽管如此，仍然有一些读者写信告诉我们说，为了不吓着孩子，他们不得不把杂志封面朝下放在桌子上。这期封面告诉我们，“如果你打算使用负面图像，不要谨小慎微，只管放心地去用。”
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Clare Wilson, feature editor
Clare Wilson，专题编辑
5 February 2011
2011年2月5日
How do you illustrate something that doesn't exist yet? The job of mapping the entire brain's connections – the "human connectome project" – has barely begun. So an image of "the brain's blueprint" had to be conjured up from our artist's imagination.
如何用图解说明某些根本不存在的事物？绘制整个大脑连接的工作 –“人脑连接组项目”刚刚启动。因此，“大脑蓝图”图像必须从艺术家的想像力去获得灵感。
We initially contemplated using road maps or electrical circuit boards to evoke the intricate networks under study, but the artwork eventually produced was much more abstract – almost ethereal – and took my breath away. To me this image aptly illustrates the awesome beauty of the most complex object in the known universe.
我们最初计划使用公路线路图或电路板来引出正在研究的错综复杂的大脑网络，但最终成形的艺术品抽象得多–几乎象空气–让我无法呼吸。于我而言，这副图像恰当地描绘了众所周知的宇宙世界中最复杂物体那令人窒息的美。
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Valerie Jamieson, features editor
Valerie Jamieson，专题编辑
30 August 2008
2008年8月30日
Various delays affected the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider and many of our competitors ran special issues months, even years, too early. I held off our LHC coverage until 11 days before the first proton beams went round. By that time, LHC fever was starting to grip the public and people couldn't get enough of it. I love this cover because we nailed the timing. The image of the standby switch and the cover line are simple yet clever. To those in the know, the background image is the insides of one of the detectors. The combination of understated artwork and cover line exudes confidence. It sold really well.
因为许多不同原因的耽搁，影响了大型强子对撞机（LHC）的启动，而我们的许多竞争对手早在数月，甚至数年前就启动了专刊。直到第一次质子速流传前11天，我才开始报道我们的大型强子对撞机（LHC）。那时，LHC热正开始俘获公众，人们对LHC真是百闻不厌。我喜爱这这期封面，因为我们抓住了时间。备用开关图像和封面行简单而优雅。对于知情者而言，背景图像是一个探测器内部。质朴的图片与封面行的结合，散发出无比自信。这期杂志销售非常好。
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Craig Mackie, art editor
Craig Mackie，美术编辑
25 April 1998
1998年4月25日
I have always loved the "Nothing" cover. Not only is the image beautiful but it really does capture the idea of nothing in such a powerful and clever way – more powerful than actually having nothing at all. Cover-line-wise it is confident to just sell one thing in a considered and elegant way at the bottom – leaving the image to do its thing. I wish I had been involved.
我一直喜爱“无”的封面。不仅因为图像很美，而且确实非常清楚和有力地抓住了“无”的含义 – 比起真的什么都没有要强有力得多。封面排列很自信，仅在底部以一种用心斟酌的雅致方式销售一样东西 – 让图像去做自己该做的。我希望我曾经参与制作。
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Roger Highfield, magazine editor
Roger Highfield，杂志编辑
I adore the work of the Israeli-born graphic designer Noma Bar, who specialises in producing clever illusions. Last year he produced one striking cover for us, "Your inner Neanderthal", and when our art editor Craig Mackie suggested he should do our cover for "The grand delusion", a special report on how the brain tricks us, Noma seemed the natural choice.
我敬重以色列图片设计师Noma Bar的作品，他擅长于制作精妙的幻影。去年，他为我们制作了一副很震撼的封面，“你内心的穴居人”；当我们的美术编辑Craig Mackie建议他为期刊“伟大的错觉”–讲述大脑如何戏弄我们的专题报告–制作封面时，Noma似乎是自然不过的选择。
This was a difficult cover because we had decided relatively late in the production cycle to run three big cover lines to reflect the excellent range of features in that issue, and that in turn also limited the space on offer to Noma. Within a couple of days, he had come up with this masterful use of negative space – the space around this line drawing of The Thinker, Auguste Rodin's sculpture. Brilliant.
这期封面制作难度很大，因为我们在制作周期很晚才决定安排三大行封面文字，来反映本期杂志涉及范围极广的特点，因此限定了留给Noma的时间。几天后，Noma就拿出了这个充分利用负空间的图 –围绕奥古斯特·罗丹的雕塑-"思想者”轮廓图的空间。才华横溢！
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Adam Goff, picture editor
Adam Goff，图片编辑
16 July 2011
2011年7月16日
I think this balances all the cover elements very successfully. Very simple graphic image, effective use of colour. Two direct and strong cover lines, the start of something and the end of something… neat.
我认为这期封面非常成功地平衡了所有的封面元素。非常简单的图形图像，和卓有成效的用色。两行直接而强烈的封面文字，事情的开始，事情的结束…优雅之极。
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Graham Lawton, deputy magazine editor
Graham Lawton，杂志副主编
19 May 2007
2007年5月19日
This was published at a time when climate science was rising up the agenda as an explosive political issue. We sensed an appetite for some back-to-basics reporting, and delivered it with this perfect juxtaposition of words and pictures.
这期杂志出版于气候学正作为一个爆炸性政治问题提上议程之时。我们感受到对某些“回归本始”报告的愿望，并采用这种文字与图片完美并置的方法进行封面编排。
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Kate Douglas, feature editor
Kate Douglas，专题编辑
8 December 2001
2001年12月8日
I am particularly fond of the mummy cover. Not just because she's beautiful, but because the Mummy Congress (held in Nuuk, Greenland) was the most amazing meeting I've ever attended. It was packed with characters and eccentrics, each with a more fantastical story to tell than the next. Other highlights included the local delicacies of reindeer in chocolate sauce and spicy musk ox, whales frolicking offshore, and a rather fine pair of seal-skin knickers in the local museum.
我尤其喜欢木乃伊封面。不仅因为她很美，而且因为木乃伊大会（在格陵兰努克召开）是我所参加的最奇妙的大会。这里有许多奇人怪杰，每个人都有一个奇异的故事。其他精彩故事包括蘸巧克力酱的驯鹿和风味麝牛等本地美食，海边嬉戏的鲸，当地博物馆的一条很不错的海豹皮短裤。
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