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![[*]](./images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif) posted on 12-5-08 at 10:45 AM |
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What was in Vogue
Reading Holly’s blog (Freudian slips) http://freudianslipsvintage.blogspot.com/ I was directed to this great site with of Vogue UK covers. You can search by year,
model or artist/photographer
1916
1926
1945
1965
1987
and June of this year
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| posted on 12-5-08 at 10:55 AM |
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As usual, my fav's are the 60's & 20's ones! And I love the coat on the 1916 one. 
Of course I would - look at my avatar.
The modern one is all junked up with text on the sides. boooo! The older ones focus on the FASHION, not trendy "lists" and such - or celebrities.
Janine
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| posted on 12-5-08 at 11:30 AM |
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Wow - amazing covers!
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| posted on 12-5-08 at 01:17 PM |
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I have a book on Vogue covers. Love them!
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| posted on 12-5-08 at 01:22 PM |
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me too, Linda!! mine was a gift from one of my roommates when graduated from UH!! one of my all time favorite books
Mary
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| posted on 12-5-08 at 02:29 PM |
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I wonder if some of the lack of "junk on the sides" was due to the capabilities of the printing press at the time? Back then they would have still
been setting with what would look like primitive tools compared to today's presses.
The introduction of the computer to the art/graphics/publishing world has changed it tremendously, often for the worse, as there are a lot of graphic
"artists" wo don't have a clue of the basics of art, they just know how to run the machines.
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| posted on 12-5-08 at 03:43 PM |
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Thanks for reading the blog Amanda!
I love their cover archive, browsing through it makes me feel better when I get constantly outbid on vintage issues of Vogue on Ebay! Perfect vintage
eye candy!
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| posted on 12-5-08 at 06:17 PM |
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That's a good point about some of today's graphic artists being more competent in running machines and less competent in the actual design.
I think there is an increasing trend to crowd in information - more noise. It drives me nuts watching a show on TV and the banner advertising another
show comes on the bottom.
BUT what bugs me THE most (and this probably shows my age) is listening to radio when they put the drums and music behind people talking. NPR is
doing this more and more. If they start doing it during news I am shutting them off for good.
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| posted on 13-5-08 at 03:35 AM |
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I can't agree more about computer "designers." Graphic artists today who only learned how to "design" on computers typically don't have the
knowledge of type or of how design on screen translates to ink on paper. Thus, we have lost the art of typesetting (e.g., the ubiquitous use of foot &
inch marks rather than "real" apostrophes and quotes, type that is too small for its column width, and brochures that have 6 different fonts because
the designer thought they looked nice (never mind they're not readable).
And we get designs that looked great on screen, but end up a bloody mess in printing because the artist doesn't understand trapping, screen tints,
etc.
Almost the same thing as writers (of which I am one) being replaced by office personnel because, well, they have a word processor and spell check on
their 'puters, don't ya know?
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| posted on 13-5-08 at 06:25 PM |
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Amen, Anne!!!
I'm so glad that I went through an entire art program, rather than just a graphics only school. I got so much out of learning art with a pencil,
brush, trowell, clay, metal hammer, etc. We had computers, but nothing like what there is now. I learned graphics a bit more hands on.
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| posted on 13-5-08 at 09:51 PM |
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My experience with a graphic artist recently would lead me to believe that they not only have no artist talent and imagination but can't handle the
equipment very well either. It was a nightmare. I'm still recovering. Claire
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