Timeline (1840-1996)
Year Periodical Events Creator Events
1821-1969 Saturday Evening Post
1842 Illustrated London News founded by Herbert Ingram
1843 L'Illustration(Paris) and Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) founded
1845 Fliegende Blätter (Munich) first published
1846 Town & Country
1848 Kladderadatsch (Germany) founded
1849 L'Illustracion (Spain) founded
1850's Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly (USA) first published
1857-1916 Harper's Weekly
1867-1929 Harper's bazar, later Harper's bazaar
1870's Color lithography introduced to magazines
1871-1881 Frank Leslie's lady's journal
1872 Zincography invented
1876- The Queen, laterMcCall's
1877-1887 Ladies Home Journal
1885- Good Housekeeping
1886- Cosmopolitan
1886-1930 Forum
1888- National Geographic
1888-1957 Collier's
1891- Architectural Record
1892- Vogue 1894 Aubrey Beardsley "art director" of Yellow Book, first use of this title
1892-1974 Architectural Forum
1895-1900 Pan,German cultural mag. promoting Art Nouveau
1896 Hot Metal composition introduced 1898-1971 Alexey Brodovitch
1898-1978 Dr. Mehemed Fehmy Agha
1898 La Vie au grand air founded, French sports magazine known for unique layouts utilizing photomontage, cropping and inset images.
1898- Sunset
1901-1912 L'Assiette au beurre (the Butter Dish) published in Paris, leftist satirical magazine 1903-1969 Lester Beall
1907 Will Bradley art director of Collier's
1901-1993 House and Garden, later HG
1902- American art news, later ARTnews 1908-1972 Will Burtin
Popular Mechanics
1903- Redbook magazine, laterRedbook 1908-1991 George Guisti
1905-1925 Metropolitan
1909- The Progressive 1909- Walter Allner
1910 Rotogravure first used commercially by Eduard Mertens on Freiburger Zeitung. Offered high quality reproductions of type and photo printed from a single plate. Became primary method of producing color magazines until 4 color offset lithography in the 1960's. 1910-1915 Will Bradley art director of five Hearst magazines:Good Housekeeping, Metropolitan, Success, Pearson's, National Post
1913- Architecture 1910- Leo Lionni
Art in America 1910-1991 Cipe Pineles
1911-1995 Bradbury Thompson
1912- Alexander Liberman
1914 Edna Woolman Chase editor at Vogue
1914- The New Republic 1914- Paul Rand
1914-1936 Vanity Fair revived in 1983 1915-1955 Alvin Lustig
1917
Dada movement founded in Zurich
Dada magazine published during movement
1916 Double page spread first treated as single unit by Will Bradley
1917- Forbes
1918-1981 Herb Lubalin
1920 Art Director's Club of New York founded
1920- Architectural Digest 1920-1930 Will Bradley typographic supervisor of all Hearst publications
1922 Veshch/Object/Gegenstand founded by El Lissitzky. Addressed idea of linear continuity.
1922-1963 Westvaco Inspirations for Printers
1922- Better Homes & Gardens
Harvard Business Review
Reader's Digest
1923- Architecture
Time
1923-1932 Kurt Schwitter's Merz. Design incorporated modernist elements; bold rules, sans serif type.
1924-1986 Saturday review
1925-The New Yorker
1923

Pineles emigrates to the U.S.
1925-1938 AIZ (Arbeiter illustrierte Zeitung) Communist weekly established by Willi Muenzenberg 1928 Dr.Agha made chief assistant at German Vogue
1926 First printing of Bauhaus magazine Alexander Liberman designs Vu
1927- Current Science
1928 Vu( France) 1929 Agha emigrates to the U.S.
1929 Mise en Page 1929-1943 Agha art director of Conde Nast publications; Vogue, Vanity Fair and House & Garden
1929- Business Week
1929 Harper's bazaar adds extra "a" to name 1909 Conde Nast buys Vogue
1930- Fortune 1930 Vogue prints first bleed edged photo.
Advertising Age Double page spread introduced in Vanity fair
1930-1959 Charm 1931 Alan Fletcher
1931- Apparel Arts, later GQ:Gentleman's Quarterly 1931 Brodovitch emigrates to the U.S. and begins teaching modern graphic techniques at the Museum School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia.
1932 First full color photograph on cover of Vogue
1932- Family Circle Magazine
1933- Esquire
Newsweek
U.S.News and World Report
1933-1941 SSSR na Stroíke (USSR in construction) 1930-1941 Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko design SSSR Na Stroike
1934- Bride's
1935- Mademoiselle 1934-1958 Brodovitch art director of Harper's Bazaar
1936- Consumer Reports 1938-1945 Pineles art director of Glamour
1936-1972 Life
1937- American Artist 1938-1962 Bradbury Thompson designs Westvaco Inspirations for Printers
Popular Photography
1937-1971 Look 1939 Francis Brennan succeeds Eleanor Tracy as art director of Fortune
1939- Glamour
1941- Scope 1942 Pineles first female director of Art Directors Club.
1941-1949 View 1943 Alexander Liberman art director of Vogue.
1942 Fortune receives new cover look and format 1944-1956 Lester Beall designsScopefor Upjohn Pharmaceuticals.
1944- Seventeen 1944-1946 Lustig visual research director for Look.
1945-1949 Will Burtin art director of Fortune
Cipe Pineles art director of Glamour.
1945-1948 Junior Bazaar
1945- Commentary 1945-1949 Burtin designs Scopewith Beall.
Ebony 1946-1947 Brodovitch art director of Junior Bazaar
Elle 1947 Magnum Agency founded by Robert Capa, Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and George Rodger to own and preserve photographer's copyrights.
1946- Holiday, laterTravel Holiday
1947- Road & Track 1947-1950 Pineles art director of Seventeen
1949- Motor Trend 1949 Bradbury Thompson art director of Mademoiselle
1949-1951 Brodovitch and Frank Zachary co-editors of Portfolio
1950-1951 Portfolio 1950-1951 Pineles art director of Charm
Flair 1952 Beall opens office at Dumbarton Farm, CT
1951-1957 Gentry 1952-1958 Lustig art director of Art Digest
1953- Playboy 1953-1956 Henry Wolf art director of Esquire
1954- International Director, later ID 1953-1967 Otto Storch art director of McCall's
1955- Young Miss, later YM 1953-1968 Allen Hurlburt art director of Look
1956-1957 The Complete Imbiber, promoting Gilbey's Gin, designed by FHK Henrion 1954 Alvin Lustig styles Industrial Design
1957 Fletcher designs Fortune and Time-Life
1956- Bon Appetit 1958-1961 Henry Wolf art director of Harper's Bazaar
1959-1970 Twen (Germany) 1959-1966 Peter Knapp art director of Elle
1959-1970 Willi Fleckhaus art director of Twen
1961-1963 Show 1960-1971 Walter Allner art director of Fortune
1960-1990 Bill Slack designs Architectural Review
1962 Eros 1961 Bernard Quint art director of Life
1962- Sunday Times Magazine Pineles and Burtin marry
1962- Artforum Liberman editorial director of all Conde Nast publications
1964- Surfing 1961-1964 Henry Wolf art director of Show
1965- Aspen
1965-1975 Nova, a radical women's monthly
1965-1987 Signature 1961-19?? Lubalin redesignsSaturday Evening Post
1967-1990 Psychology Today 1962 Diane Vreeland leaves Harper's Bazaar to join Vogue
1967- Oz, Richard Neville and Martin Sharp 1963 Vreeland named editor-in-chief of Vogue
Fact 1965 Richard Avedon leaves Harper's Bazaar to photograph for Vogue
1967-1975 Avant Garde
1967- Rolling Stone
1968- New York 1963-1964 Tom Wolsley art director of Queen
1969-1973 Audience 1967-1970 Dugald Sturmer at Ramparts
1969- Metropolitan Home 1968 Lubalin designs Avant Garde and Avant Garde typeface.
1970- Smithsonian magazine 1970-1971 Terry Jones art director of LondonVanity Fair
1972- Gallery 1971 Agha elected to Art Director's Hall of Fame
Money 1971- Wolfgang Behnken art director of Stem
Ms. 1972 Beall and Brodovitch inducted into the Art Director's Hall of Fame
1974- People
1975- City of San Francisco 1972-1977 Terry Jones art director of British Vogue
1975- Byte 1973 Lubalin co-founds edits and designsU&Ic with Edward Rondthaler and Aaron Burns
1976 Emergence of Punk movement in England Grace Mirabella editor-in-chief at Vogue
1977-1985 Skrien, Dutch Cinema magazine Rochelle Udell art director at Vogue
1978 Smash Hits, English teenage music magazine
1979 Conde Nast startsSelf and acquires GQ 1977 Lubalin inducted into Art Director's Hall of Fame
1979-1981 Hard Werken,by Rotterdam design group of the same name 1978 Keith Ablitt art director of Design
1979-1984 Cuisine 1979 Giusti inducted into the Art Director's Hall of Fame
1980 The Face 1980-1983 Willi Fleckhaus art director of FAZ
1980- i-D 1980- Terry Jones art director of i-D
1980-1981 Fetish, by Jane Kosstrin and David Stirling 1981 Neville Brody art director of The Face
1981- Metropolis 1983 Keith Ablitt reformats Design
1982- Details
PC Magazine
1983 Conde Nast revives Vanity Fair and buys Gourmet magazine
1983- Blueprint 1985 Regiz Pagniez art director of Elle
1984 NATO(Narrative Architecture Today) 1988 Erik Ungless art director of Vogue
1984 Apple Macintosh computer launched Alexander Liberman redesignsVogue
1984- MacWorld
Utne Reader
1985 Newsweek reformatted
1985- Elle (U.S)
Emigre
L.A. Style
MacUser
Spin
1986- Spy
1987- Conde Nast Traveler
Premiere
1988- Lear's
1989- Elle Decoration
Garbage
Mirabella
1990- Entertainment Weekly
1991- Allure

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