Showing posts with label magazine covers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magazine covers. Show all posts

September 3, 2017

H-day


On this day 50 years ago Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. The 3rd of September 1967 was named Dagen H (the H-day, with H standing for Höger (Right).
Apparently the transition went well, in parts due to a massive information campaign. You can probably spot the H-logo in the magazine cover above. Below you'll find other H-day related items.





February 2, 2017

February 17, 2013

September 23, 2012

Form

Vintage Scans: Form "Swedish design magazine, Form no.2, from 1950. Cover by Anders Beckman." 
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November 29, 2011

Soviet Science Magazine Covers




Coudal Partners: "Soviet science magazine cover illustrations. A beautiful collection and an instant MoOM classic. I. II. III. Via Mira y Calla"

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November 27, 2011

Lektyr Magazine Cover





Checking my Flickr account statistics I've realized that this is the most viewed image on my Flickr. It's a Swedish magazine cover from 1954. It has over 8.500 views. This should be compared with the just over 2.000 that the second place holder has managed to scrape together. And yet, not a single viewer has marked this seemingly popular cover as a favorite (my most liked image has over 70 fans). It's not a super cover or anything so this in itself doesn't surprise me. The combination, however, make me wonder and speculate.

Lektyr has been around since the 20s and in the 50s it was mainly a magazine containing adventure stories targeted at men. "How I managed to survive the wrath of the headhunter tribe". In the 60s, just like a number of other magazines Lektyr turn to pornography in order to survive. As far as I know - I haven't seen it in a long time (Scout's honor!) - it's now a hardcore porn magazine with a few articles on cars added to justify the readers interest in the magazine.

When googling Lektyr the image as well as the Flickr reference for this image seems to rank pretty high. Thus, my conclusion is that people searching for racy covers of Lektyr keeps coming across this not so sexy image. How disappointing it must be. No wonder it has no fans. Sorry.

Now I only wonder how many disappointed readers this post will have. I apologize in advance.
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