This last month has been eye opening for me. Matt, Mori and I packed up our car and headed to Portland to meet up with Greg Oberle- who attended the ICON conference with me. We saw some pretty incredible illustrators talk about their work, their lives, their projects. I met Carson Ellis and almost f

doors of perception (1970 ed., cover design by pat steir)

It’s an ungainly word for English speakers, which is maybe why we do not hear it often: Gleichschaltung. Yet the concept remains central for a clear view of what happened to Germany in the 1930s.

Brazil’s Para Todos (For Everyone) magazine, under the art direction of illustrator José Carlos (1884–1950), is the gem of the country’s jazz- and Art Deco–age periodicals. His first work was published in 1902 in the magazine Tagarela. He soon became a regular contributor and within less than a year, designed a cover. His work was a cross between Aubrey Beardsley and John Held Jr., and he collaborated in design and illustration in all the major publications of Brazil. All to

Some of the most beautiful magazine covers in Brazilian history were done for the magazine Para Todos, created in 1918 with a focus on movie stars (which rather blandly adorned every cover). Howeve…

Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea New Directions Paperbook NDP82, 1964 Cover Design: Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar Cover Photo: Len Gittleman

The Piano Shawl named after their original use – as decoration for pianos or dressing tables – have been slipping in and out of fashion since the Sixties. I was given a silk piano shaw…

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stefan kanchev (1915-2001) was an applied graphic artist, honored with the bulgarian state title 'national artist' in 1971. in his prolific career he designed more than 1000 trade marks and symbols, 650 stamps as well as a vast array of posters, ads, magazines, and television graphics.

An online archive of digitized knitting magazines lets you flip through pages looking for patterns and helpful articles, from 1800 to the present.

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The Magic Grammar (c.1900). Jessie Marion King (Scottish, 1875-1949). King was an illustrator mostly of children's books. King was made Tutor in Book Decoration and Design at Glasgow School of Art in...

Cover by Tom Adams. Fontana Books seventh impression paperback (1967).

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Qalto von Aron Jancso eignet sich nicht nur, aber vor allem für die Musik- und Modeindustrie. Mit Musik hat es der ungarische Typedesigner Aron Jancso. Sein fetter Displayfont Dubwise war von wummernden Bässen elektronischer Musik inspiriert, seine jüngste Schrift Qalto hüpft und springt wie Freestyle Jazz....

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Scrollable Image Get the cover to cover hi-res scan here. A gorgeous watercolor by Sidney Delevante - this poor centaur can't quite find the right shoes. "Haven't You a Size Smaller?" My otherwise-sensible wife (and who am I to point fingers with boxes of old magazines about) loves shoes, so I never tire of jokes about girls and their footwear. I couldn't find much information about Delevante. He did a number of covers for Judge in this period and would go on to become an art professor at Cooper Union. I've seen his illustrations in Life a bit earlier than this issue as well as some adwork he did for French's Mustard in the late 20s. I hadn't planned on scanning this issue for you all but happened to have it out along with the Musical Number from last post, so, adoring the cover, I went ahead and did a quick scan. I'll write a short post on Dr. Seuss and his work for the magazine in the late 20s and early 30s next time, but for now I'm just going to put up some of the highlights from today's ish. There's no use of color printing on the interior pages that helped to make the last issue so charming, but there's still all sorts of fun cartoons and content. R.B. Fuller, Who Says Figures Don't Lie? ha Prarie Papa. I can't quite make out the artist's signature. Flapper with dog from Carl Anderson. Milt Gross' Bringing Home the Bacon Scrollable Image I love this. It's funny what people will ask of certain professions they won't ask of others. From a fantastic artist, Jefferson Machamer. I've got a nice cover he did for College Humor I'll post when I get to that title. More Machamer. Illustrating theater reviews by George Jean Nathan, more famous for his work with H.L. Mencken on one of the most notorious magazines of the day, The American Mercury. Scrollable Image Like those New York World FUN sections I posted recently, Judge invites you to scribble in their magazine and finish a Milt Gross cartoon in a contest. I love when magazines invite the reader to doodle. The previous week's answers (an ad on the same page announces the beginning a weekly crossword puzzle starting with the next issue): Scrollable Page Advertising spotlight - before the behemoth that is Amazon, there was the Sears catalog which was hugely influential in creating a national retail market, especially in rural America. Scrollable Image I recall a few of the more famous delta bluesmen got their first guitars from this catalog. Harry Crews (RIP) even credits the catalog as wellspring for his imagination. From an interesting documentary from 2003, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, here's Crews (who I plan to write a bit about in an upcoming post on cockfighting magazines) elucidating his interaction with the Sears Roebuck catalog: Enjoy the issue! Back next time with a post on Dr. Seuss in Judge, a post likely to surprise those unfamiliar with Seuss' early work as well perhaps my personal take on Seuss' overwhelming popularity in school and library programs.

doors of perception (1970 ed., cover design by pat steir)

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C'est mon grand fils qui m'a fait découvrir ce graphiste-illustrateur japonais mort en 2009. Je n'ai pas trouvé grand chose sur ce monsieur qui fut très prolifique dans les années 70, mais, ses réalisations me bluffent par

Clarence Coles Phillips, Life Magazine cover (December 7, 1911) ” A Christmas Design”