Posted by admin We've written about Len Deighton before when we looked at the mysterious Spy Story. Here we take a look at another side of Deighton's scribing talents with his noted cookbook appropriately enough called...
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As the enfant terrible of the 1960s New York art scene and the man who almost single-handedly defined pop art Andy Warhol’s career is the stuff of legend. To us here he also gets VoEA bonus points for coining...
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Here we take a look back at a number of adverts spanning the 1960s from the San Diego High School newspaper. One of the main advertisers were stockists of fine Ivy League apparel – The Highlander, and in these...
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We recently featured the work of Syd Mead – a man who creates futuristic space-age artistic impressions but here we take a more practical, down-to-earth look at how futurologists (not sure whether they...
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Connexions, not a sleazy ‘contact’ magazine for aspiring doggers but rather a slightly groovy publication aimed primarily at students and published by Penguin’s educational arm towards the end of the 1960s...
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Stevie Nicks: multi-million selling singer-songwriter, nominated as one of the 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, one of the people behind the 10th best-selling album of all time...
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Regular readers of VoEA will know that we're quite fond of a bit of vintage art and graphic design from Poland. We've previously featured some unique designs in our 1960s Polish Film Poster Art post. Now...
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Mills & Boon novels – hated by the literati who consider them to be clichéd, low-brow, formulaic and predictable. Loved by some 200 million readers a year worldwide mainly because they are clichéd,...
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1972 was a year that bought much uncertainty in Detroit. With Motown Records relocating to Los Angeles, the dominant car industry at the beginning of a terminal decline, the population dropping as people...
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Nowadays if you're thinking of making a major purchase, you can pop into your local newsagents and buy a Which? magazine for Travel, Money, Car, Computing and Gardening. However in this post we go back...
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