And so it goes. Today marks the last day of the Periodicult blog. It’s been great fun and an exercise in discipline to post every weekday of 2014. But as...
Town & Country, December 1984
I’m not sure how it started or exactly when, but every Christmas my Dad would trek to the big magazine...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of November 2014
160 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged:...
All I Want for (’80s) Christmas
All the back-issues of Harper’s Bazaar that I’m missing in my collection. (Image: Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country magazine, December...
Fringe Festival
Fringe, it seems, is everywhere these days. From boots to jackets, from swimsuits to pretty much everything Amanda made on...
Getting Your Drink On, ’80s Style
Tipsy in Madras: A Complete Guide to 80s Preppy Drinking By Matt Walker and Marissa Walsh Perigree Books, 200 pages,...
Once in a Lifetime
I’m sitting in the little room listening to the Talking Heads with the book in my hands. I’m afraid to...
Francesco Scavullo
Though he may be best known for his long run shooting the sexy covers of Cosmopolitan magazine, photographer Francesco Scavullo...
’80s Coloured Denim
I have owned precisely one pair of coloured jeans in my life to this point. I bought them in the...
Colourways
Whenever I find an item I really, really like I’m always tempted to toss around the classic I’ll take one...
Design Catalogue Is Graphics Gold
Mecanorma: Graphic Book Mecanorma/Studio Peps, 368 pages, 1984 I’ve been a bit obsessed lately with my collection of graphic design...