Separated at Birth: Traditional Home and Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles
July 13, 2007
Is it a case of good editors thinking alike or is it the distance that separates Des Moines, Iowa from Atlanta, Georgia that caused the two magazines to have almost identical covers? Well, wait there is a catch to the identical covers… one came two years before the other (maybe the distance it takes to travel on foot from Des Moines to Atlanta)… Well the folks at Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles were not amused when they saw this month’s cover of Traditional Home. They wrote in their blog:
The staff of Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles had a deja vu moment this week when we spotted the September 2007 issue of Traditional Home magazine on the newsstand and arriving in our mailboxes. It is an almost exact copy of a cover we published in October 2005, a whopping two years ago!
The similarities are endless: the image itself, with the exception of a pear they added to the tabletop (nice touch!), as well as the composition of the cover. The bold “before & after” blurb and typeface are the most shocking likenesses. The producer of the story was Atlanta-based Lisa Mowry.
This is not the first time for a Trad Home repeat. A similar image from the cover of AH&L’s June 2005 “Color” issue appeared on Traditional Home’s May 2006 cover. Again, almost identical.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery….
Well, indeed imitation is the sincerest form of flattery…
Mr. Magazine 
you did a very good comparison back there.
yes, especially the pictures. it’s a very good modification though.
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