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Archive for the ‘Magazine’ Category

  • Tehnika-Molodehzi: Groovy Russian Science Magazine

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    Welcome to Tehnika-Molodehzi magazine, translated literally as Technology-Youth. We’ve not done many features on Russian science magazines that we can recall so here’s a first for us and quite possibly a first for you too assuming you’re not Russian and...

  • Icographic Magazine 1971 – 1978

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    Icographic Magazine was a visual communication magazine started in 1971. By visual communication we mean signs, logos, fonts etc, anything that gets a message across, and the simpler, the better. We are big fans here at VoEA of these simple modernist style...

  • Paris Match Magazine Covers

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    We don’t think we will have many chances to publish a post which features legendary Spanish painter Picasso and seventies television favourites Charlie Angels, however this collection of cool retro covers from French weekly magazine Paris Match has...

  • The Hippest Girl in The World and The Citroen

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    Here’s a comic featuring the “Go-Go wonder of Paris with a heart made of vinyl” (not sure how that works) and a colourful Citroen booklet from the sixties.The psychedelic illustrations for both of these publications come from the...

  • Fabulous Retro Italian Magazine Adverts

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    Here we head into Europe for some retro Italian adverts from various magazines from the mid sixties to the early seventies. Amongst our assortment of magazine advertisements are Portable record players, Vespa scooters, Sweets and a Sunglasses advert...

  • Swinging Siam – Thai Fashion Magazine 1968

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    Time to go far-out in the far-east as we go to Swinging Siam in the sixties. Before now we’ve had funky music and record covers from Thailand in our Sound of smiles feature and posted some colourful Thai vintage film posters...

  • Cavalier Attitude – Sixties Mens Magazine

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    US men’s magazine Cavalier (motto: For the American Male) started way back in 1952 and is still, some 60 years later, going now. It was first published the year before Playboy to whom it has often been compared and back in the day tried to be seen as...

  • Stitchin Time – Late 1960s Knitting Magazine

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    Did you know that before he was getting his Martinis shaken and not stirred as James Bond, Sir Roger Moore was a male knitting model? He even earned the nickname “The Big Knit” because of his extensive modelling work in knitwear...

  • Drum – 1969 Magazine from Ghana

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    While surfing round the world wide web for material for our Soul to Soul post we encountered these scans from a 1969 magazine called “Drum” from Ghana...

  • Vinyl in Life Magazine

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    Life magazine started way back in 1936, so it will be no surprise that our favourite physical format of music has made many appearances in the magazine over the years. Among our vinyl selection are a few famous faces including singer Peggy Lee leaning on a...