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The Pavements of Seventies New York
Call it what you want – the big apple, the city that never sleeps or just plain old New York. Here we have photos from two books that were published in the seventies and capture the street life of the...
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1967 French Elle Magazine
Keith Richards, Red cable knitted jumpsuits, Psychedelic umbrellas, Jaques Dutronc and some groovy illustrations from Guy Peellaert are just a few of the highlights from this French issue of Elle...
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Soulful Press – Soul Magazine Covers
Here we have a collection of soul magazine covers, mainly culled from Soul Portraits collection on Flickr. There are foreign ones, amateur ones, new-ish ones, cutting edge ones, and 60′s/Northern...
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This is London – Vintage Book Covers
London has always been an inevitable focal point for authors throughout the years, its sheer size and diversity making it an appealing and familiar setting that still retains a certain air of mystery....
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Sixties and Seventies Which? Magazines
Nowadays if you’re thinking of making a major purchase, you can pop into your local newsagents and buy a Which? magazine for Travel, Money, Car, Computing and Gardening. However in this post we go back...
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Diggin’ the Tribe Vibe
1972 was a year that bought much uncertainty in Detroit. With Motown Records relocating to Los Angeles, the dominant car industry at the beginning of a terminal decline, the population dropping as...
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Pulped Fiction – Mills and Boon Book Covers
Mills & Boon novels – hated by the literati who consider them to be clichéd, low-brow, formulaic and predictable. Loved by some 200 million readers a year worldwide mainly because they are clichéd,...
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Projekt Magazine Covers
Regular readers of VoEA will know that we’re quite fond of a bit of vintage art and graphic design from Poland. We’ve previously featured some unique designs in our 1960s Polish Film Poster Art post....
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Getting Kicks With Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks: multi-million selling singer-songwriter, nominated as one of the 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, one of the people behind the 10th best-selling album of all...
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Connexions – Pick up a Penguin Magazine
Connexions, not a sleazy ‘contact’ magazine for aspiring doggers but rather a slightly groovy publication aimed primarily at students and published by Penguin’s educational arm towards the end of the...
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Back To The Future – 1975 And The Changes To Come
We recently featured the work of Syd Mead – a man who creates futuristic space-age artistic impressions but here we take a more practical, down-to-earth look at how futurologists (not sure whether they...
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Stay Classy San Diego: High School Newspaper Ads
Here we take a look back at a number of adverts spanning the 1960s from the San Diego High School newspaper. One of the main advertisers were stockists of fine Ivy League apparel – The Highlander, and...
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Andy Warhol – The Early Years
As the enfant terrible of the 1960s New York art scene and the man who almost single-handedly defined pop art Andy Warhol’s career is the stuff of legend. To us here he also gets VoEA bonus points for...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cook Book
We’ve written about Len Deighton before when we looked at the mysterious Spy Story. Here we take a look at another side of Deighton’s scribing talents with his noted cookbook appropriately enough...
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Columbia Records Insight Magazine
Soul singer Gwen McGrae, Voices of East Anglia favourites Chicago, Blood, Sweat and Tears (above), The Cyrcle with their red rubber ball and soul band The Tymes are just some of the artists featured in...
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Gebrauschsgraphik – Groovy German Art Magazine
From the 1920s through to the present day Gebrauchsgraphik (literally meaning ‘use graphic’ – it’s now called Novum) was a hugely influential Berlin based commercial art magazine. It was published in...
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Beat Nick the Beatnik
From 1950 through to ’68 an imprint of DC Comics (National Periodical Publications in case you were wondering) published ‘The Adventures of Bob Hope’. A comic book equivalent to the assorted shows that...
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New English Library Book Covers
We’ve looked at some of the great covers from the New English Library’s collection in a previous post including G.F Newman’s compellingly titled ‘You Nice Bastard’ sequel to the perhaps even more...
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Thirty Jet Magazine Covers
First published in 1955 by John H. Johnson and still going to this day Jet magazine – so called because of the pace of change at the time – was and still is aimed squarely at the black community in...
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Golden Homes – Seventies Australian Magazine
G’day folks. Today we’re going walkabout down under and taking a look at how the trendsetters in Oz were decorating their homes back in the early 1970s courtesy of the now sadly defunct Golden Homes...
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