TIME Magazine has framed American journalism inside a red rectangle since 1927. A single portrait, a bold Didone masthead, and that unmistakable border announce that the subject matters — that a century of reporting stands behind the image.

The design vocabulary is newspaper-clean: red, black, white, nothing else. Serif headlines carry the authority; generous leading and column grids carry the reading. No ornament, no softness — only the weight of the record.