At first, I'm not going to lie, I didn't really think that I was going to learn anything from this project. But from the few presentations that I listened to the other day, I realized that there is a lot to learn from old publications. Many of their designs are mind boggling and very modernistic. Some of the layouts I saw looked as though they could be a magazine you would pick up today yet they were created back in the 30s, 40s and 50s.
I grew up with Ladies Home Journal. My grandmother use to keep old issues at her house. Not quite as old as the ones that Kirby presented but they were old. I always thought the content was boring. I preferred her old issues of Family Circle to Ladies Home Journal. The presentation just reaffirmed that belief, Ladies' Home Journal was just a fluff magazine. There really didn't seem like there was much to it unlike Colliers. There weren't any political stories or
I had never heard of Colliers before the presentation in class. I liked the content in the magazine. It seems very much like a magazine I would read on a monthly basis. I also liked the layout. It wasn't arrogant or boring. The publication wasn't afraid to use color, to be influenced by the new typography era or the cubism time period. Apparently the magazine was so popular that it was in competition with The Saturday Evening Post. It was known for having doing many investigative journalism stories. In fact it was so popular that the magazine it had it's own television show on NBC called The Collier Hour. After WWII, the readership fell and they had to shut their doors in 1956. It's always sad when great magazines close.
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