Thursday, January 11, 2018

The dope chronicles / 1979 / selected pages

A book from 1979 dealing with drugs (or dope as it was called decades ago) and how big city newspapers sensationally covered the subject. What caught my eye when I first saw it in a second-hand bookshop was the unusual presentation, each  of the 288 pages is a collage of newspaper headlines and stories. Although each spread looks rather overwhelming it is possible to read a lot of the clippings. 
    It was designed by Ray Ward of Assemblage West. Copies are still available on the net.





















Tuesday, January 2, 2018

twen / issue 9 1965 / selected pages























INDEX 2018

Ad Lib magazine / first issue / 1962 March
Adobe Font & Function 1989 / 1993 December
American President Lines 1983 calendar October
Avant Garde magazine
11 March / 1970 February
Champion Papers Imagination series
22 Main Street /1978 May
23 Catalogues /1980 July
24 About time / 1983 October
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory / Annual Report / 1982 October
Comic ads / part three September
Composing Room type books / 1960 January
Cracker Barrel Annual Reports / 1992 / 1993 / 1994 March
Deutsche Grammophon / Festival of hits LP covers November
Domino's Pizza Annual Report 1987 / June
Domino's Pizza twenty-fifth anniversary book / 1985 September
Dynamic America book / 1958 / selected pages March
Fame magazine / first issue / 1988 January
Farmers Weekly re-launch dummy / 1985 August
Film Fun / October 1936 July
Georg Jensen brochures
3 / Henning Koppel May
lIlustrations from past decades
39 Yesterday's tomorrows that never made it / fourteen February
40 Yesterday's tomorrows that never made it / fifteen April
41 Otis Shepard for Wrigley's gum October
Instant cookery magazine / first issue / April 1971 November
Living magazine dummy / mid-sixties July
Mao's little red book / selected pages December
New Graphic Design magazine
12 / March 1962  September
13 / June 1962  December
Pack paintings / part 7 June
Ramparts magazine / two issues from 1968 / selected pages November
Simpson-Lee paper sample / early eighties August
Speed and Flight / two card games / mid-century April
The dope chronicles / 1979 January
twen magazine / selected pages
  9 / 1965 January
10 / 1965 February
11 / 1965 March
12 / 1965 April
  1 / 1966 May
  2 / 1966 June
  3 1966 July
  4 / 1966 August
  5 / 1966 September
  6 / 1966 September
  7 / 1966 November
  8 / 1966 December
Two paper company staff magazines / part two December
USA Today / first issue / 1982 July
Woman's Home Companion / June 1948 April
Woman's Mirror / April 2 1966 June
Worthless currency February

Sunday, December 31, 2017

INDEX 2017

Adobe Font & function magazine / First issue / 1988 December
American design century / book 4 / Icons January
Broadway-Hollywood Carnival / first issue / 1939 January
CBS diary / 1967 December
Champion Papers Imagination samplers
21 Ireland September
Coke centenary 1986 / September
Collier's / complete issue / October 1953 March
Cracker Barrel Annual Reports / 1989 / 1990 / 1991 February
First issue magazine covers (from the Nineties) July
Folio 13 / Sanders Printing Company April
General Dynamics posters designed by Erik Nitsche July
Georg Jensen brochures

   part 1 August
   part 2 November
Golf magazine / 1990 October
Illustrations from past decades
  34 The Pontiac art of AF and VK January
  35 Yesterday's tomorrows that never made it / eleven March
  36 Yesterday's tomorrows that never made it / twelve June
  37 Bernie Fuchs editorial art / part one August
  37 Yesterday's tomorrows that never made it / thirteen November
Laugh-In magazine / first issue / October 1968 May
Life special edition / 1974 February

Love: the art of romance book / 1981 March
Mad mag Entertainment Weekly spoof / April 1998 June
Mid-century city postcards May

New Graphic Design / Issue 11 / December 1961 November
Pack paintings
6 January
Pathmark supermarket flyers February
Pizzazz magazine / first issue November
Rolling Stone / tenth anniversary 1977 June
Sheer Folly / first issue 1937 April
Smart magazine / first issue 1988 August
Sunday Telegraph magazine dummy / July 1984 May
Sunday Times magazine / Going, going, gone! / 1972 October
Teen world magazine / December 1960 July
twen magazine / selected pages
  9 / 1964 January
10 / 1964
February

11 / 1964 March
12 / 1964 April
  1 / 1965 May
  2 / 1965 June
  3 / 1965 July
  4 / 1965 August
  5 / 1965 September
  6 / 1966 October
  7 / 1965 November
  8 / 1965 December
Twentysix abandoned gasoline stations / 1992 August
Vampirella comic / first issue
September

X marks the spot / Chicago crime / 1930 April