Modern Magazine Design
William Owen

William Owen: Modern Magazine Design. Dubuque: Brown, 1992. A very good softcover book in stiff, decorated wrappers: text has some pencilled underlinings and text notations, but nothing serious. Out-of-print.

10 x 12 book with 240 pages and 340 illustrations, 256 in colour. Magazine design from the turn of the century to the 1980's, with a look at the early days of Harpers Bazaar, Fortune, Time, Vogue and the German Bauhaus magazine up to modern publications like Transworld Skateboarding, Spy and Interview. Covers layout, design, typography and more. An excellent overview with many unusual examples reproduced in full color.

Contents:

• prologue: a new synthesis
• illustratedmagazines and the photographic revolution
• a dynamic iconography: magaiznes and the modern movement
• the big picture; photojournalism between the wars
• the first age of the art director: Cleland, Agha and Brodovitch
• the New york School: 1945-68
• the new rationalists: a European revival
• 1968 and after: underground and up again
• journalism and art
• structure, synthesis and meaning
• the cover
• photography and illustration
• into the unknown: magazines for an elecronic age

This volume includes work by the following Graphic Artists: Gyorgy Kepes, El Lissitzky, Kurt Schwitters, Joost Schmidt, Alexander Rodchenko, John Heartfield, Paolo Garretto, Herbert Bayer, Alexey Brodovitch,Roland Schenk, Fabien Baron, Helene Silverman, Bradbury Thompson, Will Burtin, Cipe Pineles, Alexander Lieberman, Alexander Isley, Neville Brody and many others.

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