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Famous Magazines’ First Covers

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[...] Flavorwire has compiled a collection of famous magazine covers. Some inspiring pieces and some questionable, it is interesting to see how design has changed. There are some surprises there as well. [...]

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[...] First covers of famous magazines. [...]

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[...] Famous firsts The front covers of the first editions of famous magazines. [...]

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[...] (via) / a short history of Typewriters / Design Journal, a tumblr / Make a splash, a tumblr / Famous Magazines’ first covers / the Lytro. Focus after filming / the UK National Archives has a flickr set: for example, the [...]

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[...] “In celebration of their 154th anniversary, our friends at The Atlantic shared a photo of their first cover, from November 1857. The difference between that image and the very different design the magazine is rocking these days sparked our curiosity about what some of today’s best-loved and most widely read publications looked like in their infancy. After the jump, we’ve rounded up debut covers of everything from The New Yorker to Vogue to Spin. We have to admit, some of them really surprised us” (flavorwire) [...]

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[...] Famous Magazines’ First Covers [...]

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[...] Hittade en fin samling premiäromslag från några av USA:s och världens mest kända magasin. Ni hittar ett urval här på bloggen, resten hittar ni på Flavorwire. [...]

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[...] On the other hand, I’m glad to see the industry move away from things like cover of the 1944 issue of Seventeen, which reminds me of a unicorn vomiting up a rainbow. Comments: 0 Posted by: Matthew Rodriguez [...]

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[...] first-ever covers from famous magazines is a fascinating walk down memory [...]

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[...] News-Week 1933 so zu bereichten hatte, ist ja leider auch klar. Super interessante Collection von flavowire, weitere Cover nach dem Jump: “Debut covers of everything from The New Yorker to Vogue to [...]

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[...] editorial… Por eso me llamó la atención la selección que hicieron en Flavorwire sobre primeras tapas de revistas famosas (vía @Gauyo). La mayoría tuvieron cambios drásticos de diseño y es comprensible por la cantidad [...]

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[...] the years, others have changed with the times. As a follow up to last week’s roundup of famous magazines’ first covers, we’ve compiled 20 beautiful, surprising, or otherwise notable first covers of classic novels [...]

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[...] el link original se pueden encontrar las primeras tapas de varias revistas [...]

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[...] Flavorwire hat eine feine Klickgallerie von Cover der Erstausgaben berühmter Magazine. via Layercover Vogue [...]

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[...] YORKER、People、Wired…等的第一期封面長怎麼樣嗎？網站 Flavorwire [...]

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[...] “In celebration of their 154th anniversary, our friends at The Atlantic shared a photo of their first cover, from November 1857. The difference between that image and the very different design the magazine is rocking these days sparked our curiosity about what some of today’s best-loved and most widely read publications looked like in their infancy. After the jump, we’ve rounded up debut covers of everything from The New Yorker to Vogue to Spin. We have to admit, some of them really surprised us” (flavorwire) [...]

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It's unfortunate that I will leave this article after only viewing the Atlantic Monthly cover. I will not click through a gallery, page by page. Great example of horrible usability.

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If I read this in a magazine, I wouldn't have to turn the page 21 times to hunt down the images in a giant wad of clutter with poorly-targeted ads wrapped around each image so the magazine could mark their circulation up 21-fold to advertisers.

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... and my typing is no longer spectacular either.

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I have that first issue of Life - it came out on my birth day - will celebrate my 75th birthday this coming November 23. The cover is spectacular (me - no so much)!

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Why no Life magazine? That was a very graphic, handsome cover, by Margaret Bourke White I believe. What with stinkers like Entertainment, etc., I'm surprised you left LIFE out.

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bookcover design seems a higher art form

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I though Playboy was going to be on this list of icons.

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Entertainment but not Life? Sheesh ...

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I like the inaugural Might "No Stars!, No Models!, No Fashion!, Just Brains, And Heavenly Surprises!" http://waxy.org/projects/might/1/cover.jpg

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Vanity Fair was first published in 1859.

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Check out the first edition of Mad Magazine from 1955: http://madcoversite.com/mad024.html It was actually issue 24 as that was then the first issue to transition from the 10c comic book to the actual magazine format. Those first few covers featured some brilliant ideas.

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Solzhenitsyn was in the news then; Gulag came out that spring and every magazine in the world had a story about him. "People" was as stupid then as it is now.

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Wow, Solzhenitsyn and a story about Vietnam MIAs' wives? People started out a *lot* smarter than it is now. I work in print media and have said many times that the dumbing down of female-oriented outlets over time is the biggest insult to women that no one seems to recognize — sadly not the readers themselves.

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