Kruger's early monochrome pre-digital works, known as ‘paste ups’, reveal the influence of the artist’s experience as a magazine editorial designer during her early career. These small scale works, the largest of which is 11 x 13 inches, are composed of altered found images, and texts either culled from the media or invented by the artist. A negative of each work was then produced and used to make enlarged versions of these initial ‘paste ups’.[13] Between 1978 and 1979, she completed "Picture/Readings," simple photographs of modest houses alternating with panels of words.[4] From 1992 on, Kruger designed several magazine covers, such as Ms., Esquire, Newsweek, and The New Republic.[14]