I first became aware of publisher Ralph Ginzburg and designer Herb Lubalin, through the Avant Garde logo Lubalin created in 1968 for the art magazine of the same name (the logo would later be released in full typesetting form by Lubalin’s own International Typeface Corporation as ITC Avant Garde – one of my personal favorites). Anyway, Avant Garde was the third title published by Ginzburg and art directed by Lubalin, and like the previous two titles before it (Eros and Fact), was fairly short lived. After 16 issues, censors shut it down because of an art spread of an alphabet spelled out of nude bodies. Eros (a magazine focusing on the burgeoning sexuality of the ’60s) was shut down after just 4 issues, and landed Ginzburg in jail for 8 months on federal obscenity charges. Fact (a humorous satirical journal of society and culture) lasted a bit longer – 5 years, before it was shut down by a lawsuit from Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater (who sued over a particularly scathing article on him). (more…)
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Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lubalin: A brief look back at a publishing collaboration decades ahead of it’s time
Monday, December 15th, 2008The Golden Age…long since gone.
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Reader’s Poll…1985
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
I was looking through some old magazines recently and found this snippet for ’85. It’s the reader’s poll from Freestylin’ Magazine. This mag covered freestyle bmx, which was a lot of flatground endo’s and jumping around and bar spinning. It was a cool mag and kind of picked up after BMX Action. I remember looking longingly at the adverts for Redline Flight Cranks and Racing Inc. aluminum frame sets. Well, from the looks of the top 10 results here, ’85 was pretty boss.
Anthem Magazine Coachella Party Flyer 2008
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I was commissioned to illustrate and design this year’s flyer for Anthem Magazine’s Coachella Music Fesival party. My friends at Anthem said, “Make it sexy and Spanish..” And by Spanish I think they meant Mexican but without wanting to sound so, I don’t know, “racialist?” Anyway, if you are going to be in the desert April 26th and 27th, you should come by the pool and have some fun. There are going to be some super heavy DJs there and every year has proven to be an amazing party. You can RSVP by going to www.anthemmagazine.com/rsvp.