Vintage Covers Treasure Trove

May 11, 2017 5:42 PM

Featuring Milton Glaser as an introduction to this site, which has a plethora of book and magazine covers. 50 Watts has six pages of assorted groups of covers that cover the 20th century, mostly European but also Chinese and Japanese. For anyone who loves graphic design and illustration, it's a gold mine. An article from The Atlantic about the blogger. There's also a mefite post from 2014 about one category but I haven't yet figured out how to do that link; sorry.
posted by MovableBookLady (5 comments total)

Um, rather more than one from 21014 but that's cool, it's a great site.
posted by unliteral at 7:28 PM on May 11, 2017

Hey, it's the artist formerly known as mefi's own ajourneyroundmyskull!

The previouslies you see in the main posts are all done by hand. Related Posts are automatically generated.

Other Mefi posts featuring 50watts (or its previous incarnation) that Related Posts didn't pick up:
Science is trippy
Children's book art by Freud's niece Tom
An Illustrator of Decadence
Illustrations that made Edgar Allan Poe’s stories even more horrifying
Books, book bindings, and the death of the book
Satan is an individualist
Baseball Bromides (Japanese baseball cards)
posted by zamboni at 7:35 PM on May 11, 2017

There goes my weekend!
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 2:55 AM on May 12, 2017

Well, shucks. If I'd seen all those related posts, I wouldn't have posted it. Still learning how to do this properly. Thanks.
posted by MovableBookLady at 11:35 AM on May 12, 2017

If I'd seen all those related posts, I wouldn't have posted it.

Nooo! Your post was great the way it was. A+, would read again. All the previous posts are about different small facets of the site, and 50watts deserves recognition as a whole.
posted by zamboni at 5:19 PM on May 12, 2017 [1 favorite]