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Vital Vintage – the spreads

Published: 18 August, 2010 by Neil in From the archives and Mags we like.

Well, Vintage at Goodwood is over now, but I did enjoy searching out prime examples of vintage British magazines to reflect the decades. I said I would put up some spreads, so here they are.

I love this one from Ideal Home from the sixties. An interview with Liberty window dresser, Roy Gentry. Is his home as nice as his window displays?

More from Ideal Home.

Great one from Oz in the seventies about drug misuse, with illustrations from the “lovely” Peter Till.

Another from Oz, and an article from the late, great John Peel.

Up to the eighties now, and Blitz.

Some fashion from Blitz. It’s all coming back I’m told!

See earlier post for the covers.

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Vital Vintage (1980s)

Published: 13 August, 2010 by Neil in Events, From the archives and Mags we like.

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.

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