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I just want to point out that a lot of magazine covers from Popular mechanics to cosmopolitan sort of introduced me to the world of design. I grew up in a reall
by vagrantJin 5y ago
I just want to point out that a lot of magazine covers from Popular mechanics to cosmopolitan sort of introduced me to the world of design. I grew up in a really boring little seaside town and outside of the beach, we only had a library. That library is still there and is a treasure trove of 70s-90s magazines in their store room. As kids we'd just spend hours on hours just reading old magazines.
Being born in the early 90s - I grew up in the 00s but there was something very distinct about the 60s-70s style which we call retro-futurism now but it was clean cut, faded beige and straight lines that influence a lot of designers till this day. It hit different.
- xattt 5y agoHoly smokes, you described my childhood fascination with 50s-80s magazines. My elementary school had a very extensive collection of Nat Geo from that era. I could spend hours looking at ads and ad copy to grasp at a design aesthetic that I knew was no longer present in my current world.