How TIME Magazine Got Its Red Border

The cover of TIME has often been called the most important real estate in journalism—making some of the world’s best photographers and artists its architects.

Since the charcoal portrait and hand-drawn line work of the first cover—dated March 3, 1923—nearly every medium out there has been used to create a TIME cover. The first three decades were dominated by lithographs, gouache, charcoal, black-and-white portrait photography, and watercolors.

These covers are noteworthy on their merits, but several among them turned out not simply to record news, but also to make it.

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