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Research the history of magazine design, focusing mainly on theme, audience, layout design, typography, grid systems and designers who made an impact on the design and evolution of the magazines we read today.
Step 1. Each group has been assigned a magazine to explore a theme with your team from those below. Click on this Google Doc, navigate to your assigned team and cover, and answer the following questions:
Explore past and present links. How have the covers changed? Who's represented? Who is left out? Who is on the cover? What role does gender, race, ethnicity, body image and sexuality play in terms of audience and representation? What are some cultural themes which emerge? Who is the audience? As a group, choose one keyword representing your theme to explore in the databases. Ex: If race is your theme, "race" would be the keyword.
Step 2. Click the Articles tab in ulearn and click one of the article links. Click a Subject Term inside the article and click Full Text. What do you find? Add in your keyword - how do the results change? Email an article to yourself.
Step 3. Click the library's homepage and then click the Journals & Magazines link on the left. Enter your Magazine name and click "Search within" using a keyword which represents your theme or choose "Issues" or "Dates" to explore issues by date. What do you find?
Subject Terms are specific to your topic and hyperlinked to more articles on that topic.
- Subject Terms:
- African American press
- AMERICAN periodicals
- MEN'S magazines
- Print culture
- HISTORY
- ESQUIRE (Periodical)
- Vogue (Periodical)
- PERIODICALS -- History
- WOMEN'S periodicals
- Wintour, Anna, 1949-
- Magazine advertising
Race
Gender identity
Vogue (present) Harpar's Bazaar (present) Glamour (present)
Vogue (past) Harper's Bazaar (past) Glamour (past)
Click below to see all Full Text resources in the catalog on the following art movments.
Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Bahaus, Constructivism, Minimalism, and Pop Art.
Articles
Back to the Drawing Board: Graphic Design and the Visual Environment of Television at Midcentury
The Top 20 20th Century Topographers
Business Needs Good Design: And good design requires professionals.
Journals
Print portfolios, profiles, regional design, thematic issues, computer advances, historical perspective and provacative articles in all areas of the field.
Articles on the Evolution of Magazines
Magazines are a reflection of the historical context and political climate of their time period. The following articles explore some of the historical and political themes inherent to the magazine's evolution.
Try a search yourself, by clicking an article below, and then clicking one of the Subject Terms inside the article to explore your theme in the library's databases.
Subject Terms are specific to your topic and hyperlinked to more articles on that topic.
- Subject Terms:
- AFRICAN American models
- African American press
- AMERICAN periodicals
- MEN'S magazines
- Print culture
- HISTORY
- ESQUIRE (Periodical)
- Vogue (Periodical)
- PERIODICALS -- History
- WOMEN'S periodicals
- Wintour, Anna, 1949-
- Magazine advertising
Race
Gender identity
To find more articles, click below, and then click on a Subject Term within the article or try searching within the following journal: Media History
The Use of Black Models in Advertising.
Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy
Women's Magazines: An Interdisciplinary Lens
Queering the New Woman: Ideals of Modern Femininity in The Ladies' Journal, 1915-1931.
"That's Part of What We Do": The Performative Power of Vogue's Anna Wintour
Cultural History of Reading by ISBN: 9780313071676Publication Date: 2008-11-30What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.
Pages from the Past by ISBN: 9780807876893Publication Date: 2006-05-18American popular magazines play a role in our culture similar to that of public historians, Carolyn Kitch contends. Drawing on evidence from the pages of more than sixty magazines, including Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Black Enterprise, Ladies' Home Journal, and Reader's Digest, Kitch examines the role of journalism in creating collective memory and identity for Americans. Editorial perspectives, visual and narrative content, and the tangibility and keepsake qualities of magazines make them key repositories of American memory, Kitch argues. She discusses anniversary celebrations that assess the passage of time; the role of race in counter-memory; the lasting meaning of celebrities who are mourned in the media; cyclical representations of generational identity, from the Greatest Generation to Generation X; and anticipated memory in commemoration after crisis events such as those of September 11, 2001. Bringing a critically neglected form of journalism to the forefront, Kitch demonstrates that magazines play a special role in creating narratives of the past that reflect and inform who we are now.
Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture by ISBN: 9781781381403Publication Date: 2015-06-19A century ago, the golden age of magazine publishing coincided with the beginning of a golden age of travel. Images of speed and flight dominated the pages of the new mass-market periodicals. Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture centres on Canada, where commercial magazines began to flourish in the 1920s alongside an expanding network of luxury railway hotels and transatlantic liner routes. The leading monthlies - among them Mayfair, Chatelaine, and La Revue Moderne - presented travel as both a mode of self-improvement and a way of negotiating national identity.This book announces a new cross-cultural approach to periodical studies, reading both French- and English-language magazines in relation to an emerging transatlantic middlebrow culture. Mainstream magazines, Hammill and Smith argue, forged a connection between upward mobility and geographical mobility. Fantasies of travel were circulated through fiction, articles, and advertisements, and used to sell fashions, foods, and domestic products as well as holidays. For readers who could not afford a trip to Paris, Bermuda, or Lake Louise, these illustrated magazines offered proxy access to the glamour and prestige increasingly associated with travel.
Glamour by ISBN: 9781848134096Publication Date: 2010-02-11How do we understand glamour? Has it empowered women or turned them into objects? Once associated with modernity and the cutting edge, is it entirely bound up with nostalgia and tradition?This unique and fascinating book tells the story of glamour. It explores the changing meanings of the word, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in twentieth century social history. Using a rich variety of sources - from women's magazines and film to social surveys and life histories - Carol Dyhouse examines with wit and insight the history and meaning of costume, cosmetics, perfume and fur.Dyhouse disentangles some of the arguments surrounding femininity, appearance and power, directly addressing feminist concerns. The book explores historical contexts in which glamour served as an expression of desire in women and an assertion of entitlement to the pleasures of affluence, finally arguing that glamour can't simply be dismissed as oppressive, or as male fantasy, but can carry celebratory meanings for women.
Remake, Remodel by ISBN: 9780252095221Publication Date: 2013-01-01What is a magazine? For decades, women's magazines were regularly published, print-bound guidebooks aimed at neatly defined segments of the female audience. Crisp pages, a well-composed visual aesthetic, an intimate tone, and a distinctive editorial voice were among the hallmarks of women's glossies up through the turn of this century. Yet amidst an era of convergent media technologies, participatory culture, and new demands from advertisers, questions about the identity of women's magazines have been cast up for reflection. Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age offers a unique glimpse inside the industry and reveals how executives and content creators are remaking their roles, their audiences, and their products at this critical historic juncture. Through in-depth interviews with women's magazine producers, an examination of hundreds of trade press reports, and in-person observations at industry summits, Brooke Erin Duffy chronicles a fascinating shift in print culture and technology from the magazine as object to the magazine as brand. She draws on these findings to contribute to timely debates about media producers' labor conditions, workplace hierarchies, and creative processes in light of transformed technologies and media economies.
Hard-Boiled by ISBN: 9781592139118Publication Date: 2010-07-07In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The "hard-boiled" stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled Erin A. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940s. Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers, Depression-era studies of adult reading habits, social and labor history, Smith offers an innovative account of how these popular stories were generated and read. She shows that although the work of pulp fiction authors like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner have become "classics" of popular culture, the hard-boiled genre was dominated by hack writers paid by the word, not self-styled artists. Pulp magazine editors and writers emphasized a gritty realism in the new genre. Unlike the highly rational and respectable British protagonists (Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, for instance), tough-talking American private eyes relied as much on their fists as their brains as they made their way through tangled plotlines. Casting working-class readers of pulp fiction as "poachers," Smith argues that they understood these stories as parables about Taylorism, work, and manhood; as guides to navigating consumer culture; as sites for managing anxieties about working women. Engaged in re-creating white, male privilege for the modern, heterosocial world, pulp detective fiction shaped readers into consumers by selling them what they wanted to hear - stories about manly artisan-heroes who resisted encroaching commodity culture and the female consumers who came with it. Commenting on the genre's staying power, Smith considers contemporary detective fiction by women, minority, and gay and lesbian writers.
Best Practices for Citing Sources in Presentations
Why do I need to cite my sources in a presentation?
• Credible sources show that you have done your research and reinforce your own credibility.
• Giving credit to your sources links you to an ongoing scholarly conversation. By identifying where you got your ideas, you enable your own readers to find the sources that you used if they want to learn more.
• JWU's Academic Honesty Policy lists plagiarism as a violation of University policy, as well as one of personal integrity.
How do I cite my sources in a visual presentation?
• Include a citation for any content, quotes, or ideas from another source. The citation should be located either next to the information or below it.
• Cite in the text and provide a list of citations at the end.
How do I cite a magazine cover in my works-cited list and in my essay?
To cite the cover of a magazine, you can generally create a works-cited-list entry for the issue of the magazine and then key your in-text reference to the first element of the entry:
The most recent issue of The Nation features on its cover an image of a donkey with the top of the Capitol building on its back.
Work Cited
The Nation. 17-24 Dec. 2018, www.thenation.com/issue/december-17-24-2018-issue/.
If you discuss a cover image in detail and wish to credit the artist, you could provide the artist’s full name at first mention in your prose or the artist’s last name in parentheses and list the entry under the artist’s name.
The most recent issue of The Nation features on its cover an image, created by Doug Chayka, of a donkey with the top of the Capitol building on its back.
Work Cited
Chakya, Doug. Cover image. The Nation, 17-24 Dec. 2018, www.thenation.com/issue/december-17-24-2018-issue/.
or
The most recent issue of The Nation features on its cover an image of a donkey with the top of the Capitol building on its back (Chayka).
Work Cited
Chakya, Doug. Cover image. The Nation, 17-24 Dec. 2018, www.thenation.com/issue/december-17-24-2018-issue/.
Note that in the above example, since the cover image lacks a title, a description is provided in the “Title of source” slot.
Published 19 April 2019
Citing Images from WGSN
Image label (If including image in your written work):
Fig. 1 Gender Neutral Figure in Denim. (WGSN Denim Team, [Sept. 2018]).
In the text:
WGSN Denim Team [Sept. 2018].
In your list of figures or references (omit figure number if you haven't included the image in your assignment)
Figure 1. WGSN Denim Team. [Sept. 2018] Gender Neutral Figure in Denim. WGSN. [Online image]. available from https://www-wgsn-com.jwupvdz.idm.oclc.org/content/board_viewer/#/80519/page/1
