The document outlines the 9 steps to create a magazine cover for an issue based on the book and film Ender's Game. It involves researching the theme through related images and cover styles, creating a mind map of ideas, quick sketches of concepts, more detailed sketches of favorite ideas, a final sketch of the general design, a type study to choose a font, a color study to select a color scheme, and producing the final magazine cover combining all the research and design work.