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Tag Archives: Vintage Fortune Magazine
FORTUNE MAGAZINE (SEPTEMBER 1938) MEASURING CANADA’S WORTH
We’ll soon be launching our new gallery of vintage Canadian graphic art. And, to give a foretaste of the scintillating and rare treasures we feel so lucky to have found, we’re dipping into an issue of that visually advanced American … Continue reading
SLEEK AND GRITTY NOCTURNAL GRAPHIC DESIGNS
Flying Over Avalon 1940;Ruehl Heckman;14 1/4” x 10 ½ ”;A, P I’ve always found the endeavors of those who work at night to be strangely special. Someone toiling in an office tower or studio after midnight comes to mind as … Continue reading
Posted in Art Deco Posters&Graphics, Current Events, Illustrators, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists, Surrealist Posters&Graphics
Tagged A.M. Cassandre, Ault & Wiborg, Filippo Romoli, Lucien Boucher, Paul Colin, reyn dirksen, Ruehl Heckman, Vintage Fortune Magazine, vintage French posters, vintage Italian posters, vintage nocturnal graphics
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THE SPECIAL MOMENT IN VIEW IN VINTAGE FORTUNE MAGAZINES
Back for a closer look at the design package that kicked off this blogsite (on September 3, 2012), we’re especially drawn to an ad (from the January, 1931 issue) for office furniture. The furniture itself is totally lacklustre. But the … Continue reading
THE GOLDEN, EDGY FASCINATION OF FORTUNE MAGAZINE, JUNE, 1933
Naysayers notwithstanding, this is, for me, an irresistible graphic design. It graces the back cover of an issue of lithographically and journalistically advanced Fortune Magazine, and was published 81 years ago. First a concept: it takes guts for a bride … Continue reading
FORTUNE AND THE EXCITING BEAUTIES UNDERLYING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
When it comes to vintage magazine graphics, we all tend to focus on the often breathtaking covers, and perhaps one or two ads and article illustrations that really pop. In conveying to you what amazing value inheres in such items … Continue reading
A FORTUNE (OF GRAPHICS) IN FORTUNE (THE MAGAZINE)
Fortune February 1937 Antonio Petruccelli (cover artist) Whereas in Europe, particularly France, the rapid advances in printing technology in the era closing out the 19th century and opening out the 20th century were promptly and gloriously pressed into the … Continue reading
GRAPHIC ART, GETTING INTO THE SEASON
This design is titled, “The Christmas Spirit;” and the designer, Marcel Vertes (among other things an Academy Award winner for art and costume design), has excitingly introduced with it a fascinating preoccupation to be found in the work of a … Continue reading
THE LONG SHADOWS OF SURREALISM
How often have we described something a bit odd as “surreal”? Usually, in bringing up that word, we are struck by a setting where the parts are seldom seen together. For instance, the recent film, Melancholia, sends us the following … Continue reading
Posted in Avant-Garde Posters&Graphics, Current Events, Industrial Design, Performance Art, Surrealist Posters&Graphics
Tagged Art History, Contemporary Movies, David Lynch, Fashion Design, Fortune Magazine, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Marxism, Salvador Dali, Vintage Fashion Magazines, Vintage Fortune Magazine, Writers
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