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Book Design: 100 Years of Magazine Covers
Research Studios
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London, United Kingdom
Magazines
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no matter how frivolous or specialized the
content
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offer a unique window on cultural history, being
eminently timely when published and providing a nearly
seamlessly sequential record of fashion, food, politics,
aesthetics, science, and morality, among other human
endeavors. Their covers, in particular, are snapshots
of a culture’s pulse at any given moment. Such was the
thinking for the publishers of this book, tracing the
history of these historical snapshots over the last century.
Research Studios, a seven-designer concern headed by
Neville Brody
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a British ...