Editorial Art of Playboy Magazine: The 80s
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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
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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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