Poached from Hurricane Vanessa‘s blog. She says that she poached it from flavorwire.com (I can’t check, the servers seem to be down!). Additional research by me. Which means I got deliciously lost in Google and found a whole lot of cool new ideas instead of working, which I should have been doing.
I love these sorts of things – I love looking at the design and seeing the snapshot of the time that was. One of the life goals (there are many) is to work in magazine publishing one day. In my opinion, there are few things as amazing as the feel of a brand-new glossy mag.
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- Originally The Cosmopolitan – first published in 1886 as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women’s magazine in the late 1960s. Now you know.
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- Esquire – established in 1932 during the Great Depression – was the “Quarterly for Men”.
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- GQ – originally Apparel Arts from 1931 before becoming Gentleman’s Quarterly in 1957, which is where this cover is from.
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- America’s first fashion magazine, Harper’s Bazaar (Note the original spelling!) in 1867
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- National Geographic – 1888
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- People – 1974 – Featuring the exquisite Mia Farrow
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- Rolling Stone – 1967 – Featuring John Lennon ‘How I Won the War’ still
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- Seventeen – 1944. It ran with the editorial: “Seventeen is your magazine, High School Girls of America — all yours!”
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- Time – 1923 – Featuring Speaker Joseph G. Cannon
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- Vogue – c. 1892
