THIS is the second batch of Museumjournaals I like to share with you. The magazines are a little bit older than the ones I posted before. These issues are from 1964 and 1965. Soon after the magazine had a restyle. Designer Jurriaan Schrofer was responsible for the lay out of the Museumjournaals. Later he worked as vice director for Total Design. See more Museumjournaals here.

AGAIN with Nicolaas Wijnberg. It started when I was waiting on the train in Delft. After a little research I found out the man was, among others, a gifted graphic designer. This weekend I bought a couple of old Tirade magazines with illustrations from Wijnberg on it.  It is a Dutch literary magazine founded in the fifties. All the covers are from 1957, except for the lady with the dog. That one was published in 1959.

YEARS ago I found this advertisement for the Belgium airline company Sabena in an old magazine. The ad ran in the mid sixties. It didn’t work though; Sabena is now out of business. My guess is that on a rainy Sunday afternoon someone had his or her way with the page from the magazine.  The lines of ink suggest that that person was completely bored.

RED and white mastheads on the top of a cover must sell magazines.  It looks almost like a formula. White sans serif typeface + red box = pleasing masthead. Life and Picture Post used it since the late thirties. After World War II more magazines, like Ebony, started using the formula. Even the masthead of The Face is eighties variant of the style. When you see all the mastheads under each other, they form a sort of Beatnik poem.

MAGAZINES in a newsstands act like young birds in a nest. They all scream for your attention. On the front of the magazines images and cover lines tumble over each other. The general opinion is that the crowded covers give you an idea what the magazine is about. But often it is the just opposite. These magazines below show a masthead and perhaps a dateline and a selling line in combination with a strong image. The cover of Graphis is designed by Walter Breker and Peter Liedmeier did Roeping.

THE Japanese must have one word for meticulous and craft. They really have a culture of making fine goods. The object on this page is a Japanese Kobunroku, an official document from the Meiji period (1868 -1885). The box is from 1873 and contains wood samples from the northern island Hokkaido. The first image is from the inside of the folder, the second one is the cover.

THAT little black dog represents the woman’s magazine Marie Claire. The drawings are made by illustrator Tuan and where part of a booklet to promote the launch of the French magazine. The copy by the illustrations said ‘twice as manageable’ and ‘twice as faithful’. The improved Marie Claire hit the stands in 1968.

EVERY good exhibition needs a good catalogue. The exhibition that showed the work of William Scott and Kenneth Armitage had a particular good one. Benno Wissing designed it for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The catalogue was made in 1959. Wissing used the font Akzidenz Grotesk, the daddy of Helvetica. See more catalogues by Wissing here.

ZUPI is a quarterly magazine from Brazil that focuses on graphic design, typography, photography, illustration and street art. Designer Allan Szacher founded Zupi in 2003 and since then the print circulation has grown to 15.000. The main purpose of the creators of the magazine is to inform design connoisseurs what is going on in Brazil and show fellow countrymen work from the rest of the world. The magazine is a platform for Brazilian illustrators like Os Gemeos and Onesto. In the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam the Zupi editorial team designed an art space in the spirit of the magazine. It is part of a big exhibition called Brazil Contemporary. Check out photos of the art space here. You can visit the exhibition until 27 September. ......................................... ......................................... ...........................................

THIS soldier looks like he’s ready. He has got the appearance of a Star Wars bounty hunter. The soldier was part of an operation called Musk-ox. It was an exercise held in the late forties in the Canadian Arctic. The main goal was to get fighting experience in the harsh climate of the Arctic. That was necessary because an enemy was emerging from the north: the Soviet Union. As one Canadian Cabinet Minister explained: ‘We all know that invasion of North America, if and when, will come from the north, not the south. We have to be ready (… ) We have to be able to live, travel and fight in the cold.’