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Editorial Art of Playboy Magazine: The 80s

For the Articles: 1980s Editorial Art of Playboy Magazine

A celebration of the incredible illustrators behind Playboy magazine in the 1980s. From fantasy painters to pop artists, these creatives shaped the magazine’s iconic visual style. With this blog post, I’m attempting to make a definitive list of the amazing artists that contributed to the editorial content of Playboy magazine, specifically during the 1980s (other…

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Maximalist Dreams: Print Advertising & Tech Culture in the 1980s

The 1980s was a decade defined by excess - oversized hair, oversized shoulder pads, and, importantly, oversized ambition in consumer technology. Nowhere was this more vividly expressed than in the print advertising of the era. Magazines became battlegrounds of visual noise and electric color, with brands like Technics, Sony, JVC, Pioneer, Maxell, and Atari competing…

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Home Video Logos of Yore

The home video explosion of the 1980s brought with it a host of production and distribution companies ready to exploit this profitable new technology. And while the big Hollywood studios still remain, most died out along with the VHS and Betamax formats. But for anyone who remembers watching these scuzzy tapes, the low-fi logos on…

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Video Time Trip #01: Ghostbusters

Do you remember the days of rushing home from the local video store clutching that tape you're been waiting weeks for? The simple pleasure of Friday nights circled around the TV as you settle into this weeks rental choice? Welcome to the first episode of Video Time Trip, a series that explores the vintage movie…

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Stranger Things

I designed some seriously colourful graphics for season 3 of Stranger Things. Taking advantage of the pre-existing pattern designs from our 1980s Fashion Patterns pack, the production designers on Stranger Things transformed their sets into the perfect 80s shopping mall. Featured in several episodes of the show and the Starcourt Mall fan experience. 80s Fashions…