Big city, big bands: New York’s jazz scene of the 1920sIt’s the Roaring Twenties, and New York is aflame with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in H...
The winners of the Pentawards package design competition 2019–2020Wherever you shop, be it online or in a brick-and-mortar store, the first thing you notice about a product is its packa...
How Paris and WWI spawned men’s magazinesThe first commercial camera was introduced in 1839. By 1865 technology enabled ordinary men to create photographic negatives, and they immediate...
Our everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order to understand the world we live in. Considering the complex variety of data floating around us, some...
Formgiving. An Architectural Future History, the new book by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), is a visionary attempt to look at the horizon of time. The Danish word for “design” is “for...
California slicks and Swedish Sin test the censorsIn 1958 Milton Luros left his New York job designing and illustrating detective pulp magazines for North Hollywood, California. A year later,...
WWII crushes European publishing; Playboy puts the U.S. on topWWII was devastating to Europe, but the U.S. emerged with a robust economy. People who were encouraged to save every cent for the...
The world’s newsstands accept total nudityPubic hair appeared on the American newsstand in 1970 compliments of Penthouse magazine. Within a year it was everywhere, and in 1975 Midwest r...
The companion volume to Peter Lindbergh’s first self-curated exhibitionThe first-ever exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself, shortly before his untimely death, Untold Stories at...
An essential, early portrait of Africa’s wildlife crisis“The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush...vani...
A visual exploration of earth-bound architectureBuilding is one of very few endeavours that are physically connected to the surface of the earth, fixed and enduring. Nevertheless, for centuri...
Viva La Sexual Revolution!The 1960s liberate the world’s newsstandsSexual revolution, civil rights, Flower Power, miniskirt, women’s liberation, The Pill, Black Panthe...