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Classics
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Classics
Come on, baby don’t you want to go?
My birthday last month saw the arrival of The Chicagoan, A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Era by Neil Harris (Thanks Mom and Dad), and I’m enjoying it thoroughly. One need not be a scholar of magazine design history to know (or at least strongly suspect) that the Chicagoan bears a strong resemblance to The [...]
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Classics, Off the racks
Arms and the Glossy
I meant to write about this a few months ago, but as a wonderful resource for magazine designers, it’s still worth a post. Magazines and War 1936-1936 was an exhibit at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Safia. Featuring pages published contemporaneously with the Spanish Civil War, the socialist, and socialism-inflected designs are, surprisingly, a [...]
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Classics
Monocle
05.01.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI missed it the first time around, but Design Observer is reprising Steven Heller’s essay on Monocle, which includes a slide show of covers and pages from the remarkable 1960s publication.
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Classics
Boing 747
The Institute for E-Readership and Counter-Factual Journalism Research at Poynter is at it again. For those unfamiliar with their work, the Institute looks at how society, reading, and journalism might be affected under various speculative scenarios. They are probably best know for the 2002 study which showed that had Superman’s alter-ego Clark Kent had the [...]
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Classics
Westvaco
A friend and colleague of mine, Anne Kerns (yes, other designers rib her about the name) of Anne Likes Red, offered me the opportunity to photograph a few of her old magazines. I have “Westvaco” by Bradbury Thompson, a few Avant Gardes, and some Ray Guns she said casually. Would they be of any interest [...]
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Classics
Wig Wag
Wig Wag’s 1988 launch came within a month of Spy’s, but the latter is better remembered. Spy is memorialized in books and on web sites, it’s editors have gone on to successful-publishing-careers, and you still hear its name mentioned in magazine and design circles. Wig Wag has (arguably been) nearly as influential, but it lives [...]
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Classics
Twin sons of different mothers?
We close up Germanica week at Designing Magazines with a look at a 1965 Der Spiegel which has a design suspiciously similar to the look Time sported through the earlier half of the last decade—linear layout throughout—with one story flowing into the next, diminutive Futura headlines, and identically unwavering three-column grids, as in these spreads [...]
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Classics, In the Ether
Aspen
Most magazine designers have come across references to the legendary Aspen—a “magazine in a box” published between 1965 and 1971—though few have actually seen a copy. In addition to articles, Aspen included phonograph records and several issues came with Super-8’s. (For our younger readers, Super-8 was kind of an early QuickTime.) Well, the folks at [...]
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Classics
GD Mags
Kimberly Crofts at Publication Design—a teaching blog for students of graphic design at Billy Blue in Australia has found some design-related Flikr sets—including this collection of old Graphis magazine covers and pages. In Designing Magazines the Book (DMTB—as opposed to Designing Magazines the Blog, DMTB) Editor Joyce Rutter Kaye writes about the evolving design of [...]
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Classics
Stars of the Past
I recently came across an old, crumbling copy of Screen Album, one of many miscellaneous published extensions to the Hollywood publicity machine of the early 1940s. Best to photograph it, I thought—both because it was turning to dust before my eyes and because it provides an interesting snapshot of mid-century low-end photo-driven magazine design. (Say [...]
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Classics
Power Broker
As I’ve previously noted, magazines in the provinces used to be recognized more frequently on the pages of SPD’s annuals. There are probably a number or reasons for that—one might be the slow tailspin of the newspaper industry. Back in the ’80s there was more incentive for good stringers, designers and photographers to hang around [...]
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Classics
In the /Life
A week or so ago, I made an oblique reference to Art/Life magazine. Yesterday, my only copy of it, from November, 1989, emerged from my Siberia-like bookshelf after an absence of a decade or more. Kismet! Art/Life was a limited edition magazine that was hand assembled from original artworks, prints and assembledges submitted to the [...]
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Classics
The Confessional
A few weeks ago I was stacking up my collection of old magazines, and I came across a copy of True Confessions from the late ’80s. I bought it for one of what I now realize was a long series of exercises in the individualized course of study that trained me to become a magazine [...]
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Classics, Redesigns
Weird Science
Speaking of web-inspired stupidity, I caught the just-redesigned Scientific American the other day. A step back from the clean, contemporary look the magazine had been sporting, the new SA seems to reflect the belief that print is irrelevant so it might as well look the part. Now saddled with an odd mix of mid-century typography [...]
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