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October 12, 2014
Politics in print, by Henry Wolf
Henry Wolf took a variety of approaches to dramatizing the American political process in his magazine design.
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July 25, 2014
Layer upon layer
James McMullan’s layered comic strip illustration.
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May 09, 2014
Cross-hatch
Milton Glaser explored an undersea terrain for Sports Illustrated in 1961.
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May 03, 2014
Quiz show
In the grand tradition of magazine quizzes comes “The Whatchamacallit Game” from Esquire.
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December 16, 2013
The many faces of Elliott Gould
For Time magazine, 1970: several versions of Elliott Gould, by Milton Glaser
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June 22, 2013
Notes from the underground
Letterhead from early in Steve Heller’s career as an art director.
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May 17, 2013
Dusty and the Duke
Milton Glaser illustrates the stark contrast between two film stars of 1969 — Dustin Hoffman and John Wayne.
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July 03, 2012
Happy 4th from Tony Palladino
This hinged flag sculpture was originally designed for a cover of Second Coming magazine, but Palladino revisited the idea at intervals. One main conceit is that, on the reverse side, the Italian flag is painted, emphasizing his Italian-American roots. Click through for full magazine cover.
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May 18, 2012
Chwast does cigs
Another obscure, undated bit of imagery from the Pushpin slide library. Seymour Chwast’s contribution to the legacy of Roth-Händle cigarettes, probably for Frankfurter Allgemein Zeitung. He’s in good company: Robert Motherwell did a collage of the same, and, more pertinent certainly, many famous posters for the brand were designed by the great early twentieth-century designer Herbert Leupin. Note: despite the preponderance of smoking-related imagery we’ve been posting lately, Container List does not condone the practice, which doesn’t make you look cool unless you’re already Humphrey Bogart. Kids, it’s just NOT archival.
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