Looking ahead to our 75th anniversary has given us an excellent excuse to delve deep into the Print magazine archives and get lost down there for a while.
Among the things we’ve revisited and rediscovered: An issue guest-edited by CBS ad great Lou Dorfsman. Coverage of Paul Rand’s then-new IBM logo. An article by Albert Einstein (no joke).
At the moment, however, we’re a bit seduced by the wide-ranging covers of the 1950s, which are a vintage magazine cover wonderland. Here are some of the highlights.
More archival wanderings to come …

Cover by Esquire magazine’s Henry Wolf

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Cover by Ben Shahn

Inset piece by William J. Schaldach

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“Marianne” by Edmund Dulac

Cover from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper

Cover by Phil Franznick

Cover by Leo Lionni

Cover adapted from a card by Eric Fraser

Cover art-directed by George A. Shealy

Cover by Bruce Beck

Cover by Richard Sherman

Cover by Morton Goldsholl on Texoprint by Kimberly-Clark
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Zachary Petit (zacharypetit.com) edits PRINT.