General reading on the history and design of magazines
[Book] Aynsley, Jeremy; Forde, Kate.(2007) Design and the modern magazine. Manchester. Manchester University Press. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Book] Owen, William; Owen, William,.(1992) Modern magazine design. Dubuque, Iowa. Wm. C. Brown. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Book] Losowsky, Andrew; Leslie, Jeremy; Colophon.(2007) We love magazines. Luxembourg. Mike Koedinger. Find it on MDX library Search
Magazines and Gender
[Article] Brewis, J. and Warren, S. (2011) ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas? Organizing Christmas in women’s magazines past and present’, Organization (London, England), 18(6), pp. 747–762. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508411416403. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Book] Tinkler, Penny.(1995) Constructing girlhood : popular magazines for girls growing up in England, 1920-1950. London. Taylor & Francis. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Article] Hackney, F. (2006) ‘“Use Your Hands for Happiness”:: Home Craft and Make-do-and-Mend in British Women’s Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s’, Journal of design history., 19(1), pp. 23–38. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epk003. Find it on MDX Library Search
Publications about specific magazines in MoDA's collections
[Webpage] Poyner, R.(2012) Motif Magazine: The World Made Visible: Design Observer. An expanded version of an article first published in Eye Magazine no. 62 vol. 16, Winter 2006. It includes additional research undertaken for a lecture at the St Bride Library in May 2007. This is its first publication online. https://designobserver.com/feature/motif-magazine-the-world-made-visible/32978
Article about Motif magazine, a beautifully designed magazine with features on “painting, sculpture, art education, graphic design, typography and lettering, illustration, photography, architecture, wood engraving, and the history of the graphic arts,” published between 1958 and 1967.
[Book] Howell, Geraldine.(2020) Women in wartime : dress studies from ‘Picture Post’ 1938-1945. London. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. Find it on MDX Library Search
Fashion photography as featured in Picture Post magazine.
[Article] Bryant, M. (2016) ‘A little magazine with huge impact’, British journalism review., 27(4), pp. 62–67. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956474816681751. Find it on MDX Library Search
Article about Lilliput magazine, one of the most popular magazines of the 1940s and 50s
[Thesis] Lucy,Ellis.(2019) ‘I Believe in Wallpaper’: Examining Salesmanship through The Wallpaper Magazine 1920-1939. University of Brighton. [Copy held by MoDA]
MA thesis which used the The Wallpaper Magazine to examine wallpaper salesmanship in the interwar period
[Article] Aynsley, J. (1992) ‘Gebrauchsgraphik as an Early Graphic Design Journal, 1924 1938’, Journal of design history., 5(1), pp. 53–72. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/5.1.53. Find it on MDX Library Search
Article about German magazine, Gebrauchsgraphik, of which MoDA holds several issues
[Article] Kelly, J. (2016) ‘“To Fan the Ardour of the Layman”: The Architectural Review , The MARS Group and the Cultivation of Middle Class Audiences for Modernism in Britain, 1933–1940’, Journal of design history., 29(4), pp. 350–365. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epw025. Find it on MDX Library Search
Article based on PhD research on The Architectural Review magazine
[Article] Carullo, V. (2016) ‘Image makers of British modernism: Dell & Wainwright at The Architectural Review’, Journal of architecture (London, England), 21(7), pp. 1012–1032. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2016.1230143. Find it on MDX Library Search
Article about the use of photography in The Architectural Review magazine
[Article] Greenfield, J. and Reid, C. (1998) ‘Women’s magazines and the commercial orchestration of femininity in the 1930s: Evidence from woman’s own’, Media history, 4(2), pp. 161–174. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688809809357942. Find it on MDX Library Search
Article about the development of gendered ideas through the magazine Woman’s Own
[Chapter] Trevor,Keeble.(2007) Domesticating modernity: Woman magazine and the modern home Design and the Modern Magazine. in Aynsley, Jeremy and Forde, Kate, (eds.) Design and the modern magazine. Manchester, UK. Manchester University Press. Find it on MDX Library Search
Case study of representations of domestic modernity through Woman magazine in the 1950s, using sociological ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and Dennis Chapman