Adventures in a world of print
I must admit, I thought hotels nowadays sourced local magazines for their rooms. However, it seems that some hotels actually publish their own – what’s more they name them after existing titles like Cosmopolitan! See this post from HotelChatter.com We’ll keep an eye out for their forthcoming selection of the genre and post a link to it nearer the time.
Some more hotel magazines to look at, courtesy of HotelChatter.com. Makes us want to go on holiday. Now.
So, Vintage at Goodwood kicks off today, and our trip down magazine memory lane comes to an end in the 80s, with a copy of Blitz magazine.
Wrongly accused as a pale imitation of The Face, Blitz was a great reflection of the time, as this Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover testifies. First published in 1980, the magazine closed in 1991. This issue is from 1984, the year I moved to London to study design at the London College of Printing. Blitz, the Face and ID magazines were all very much part of my life then. Looking through this copy, I am amazed at the amount of mono pages – we just take full colour printing for granted now. Jeremy Leslie took over the design soon after this issue, and he now writes one of the best magazine blogs around – magculture.com
Enjoy Vintage at Goodwood! I will post up some spreads later from the magazines featured throughout the week.
Nearly there. Vintage at Goodwood starts tomorrow, and our countdown of magazine covers through the decades continues with Oz from 1972.
This is the fifth anniversary issue, and the list of contributors is amazing: John Peel, Auberon Waugh, Robert Crumb and Peter Till. Sadly, the magazine was on a downward spiral, having been through the courts on an obscenity charge which became the longest in legal history (for the time). Felix Dennis, one of the men behind Oz came out reasonably unscathed, forming Dennis Publishing in the eighties and tapping into the new computer market. Today, Dennis talks of its publications as “brands” rolling them out as franchises in different countries and also online.
Last vintage post tomorrow – and it’s the eighties. Plus, a sneaky look inside some of the magazines.
We continue our countdown to Vintage at Goodwood on Friday, and today is the turn of the sixties.
Homes and furniture was a massive part of the 1960s, with new designers like Charles Eames and Terence Conran shaping the way people lived. Ideal Home magazine was one of the biggest selling titles at the time. Published since the twenties, it is still around today, and recently had a redesign. Some of the furniture in this issue from October 1964 wouldn’t look out of place in today’s copy!
aurora is back, brighter than ever. The sun seemed to have gone down on the compact and covetable in-flight magazine that we at CMYK produced for Highland Airways, when the airline itself ceased trading this year, battered by blizzards and volcanic ash clouds. But we are delighted that aurora has risen again, this time as a customer magazine for Highlands & Islands Airports. It’s on display at the company’s 11 airports, ranging from bustling Inverness to the achingly beautiful beach airport on Barra. Look out for it and help yourself to a copy if you’re flying from any HIA airport. Our summer issue has an insider’s view of the Western Isles, an interview with songstress and DJ Cerys Matthews, a piece on superfoods that won’t break the bank and much more besides.
Killing time in Athens airport last week, I picked up a free airport magazine called 2board. I flicked through, expecting puffery for the watches, perfumes and sundry cakes on sale all around me. Instead I marvelled at superb photographs, many of Greece, many not, and at absorbing features including one on The Gypsetters, a social group who had hitherto not crossed my radar. These affluent hippies, inspired by Lord Byron, wander the globe in Pucci kaftans, whatever they may be, and keep their American Express Black Cards in crocodile wallets. Nonsense, but enjoyable nonsense, and lavishly illustrated with portraits of Gypset icons such as Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo and Brigitte Bardot. All this is seemingly documented in a book entitled Gypset Style, by Julia Chaplin, in case you want to know more. But 2boards real triumph is to look so good while running all its content in two languages – Greek and English. This is a devilishly difficult thing to do. I once had a friend who edited a tri-lingual industry magazine called Pumps, Pompes, Pumpen. He found it far from easy – and he didn’t have to worry about gorgeous layouts.
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