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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2009-05-06 09:25 am
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A quick note...

I just visited the home ec shelves again and one of the books, Lessons in Living for the Young Homemaker, from 1970, has an illustration style for the non-photographic pictures in it that is so self-consciously hip I feel it should be shooting finger guns at me.

Lessons in Living

(I grew up in the 1970s and 80s with this style of illustration in EVERYTHING. I sort of hate it now.)
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[personal profile] lnhammer 2009-05-06 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa -- dig it.

---L.
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[personal profile] telophase 2009-05-06 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
And the food photography is so much worse than that of the 1959 book - it all looks so unappetizing.
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[personal profile] lnhammer 2009-05-06 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
They managed to make it worse than 50s food? Oh dear.

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[personal profile] telophase 2009-05-06 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Word to the wise: do not photograph your foods with dull, muddy color film on a dull green background. It's enough to make one swear off food for life.
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[personal profile] lnhammer 2009-05-06 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Or, check it, into squares.

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[personal profile] lady_ganesh 2009-05-07 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Me too.

[identity profile] tprjones.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Whenever I see that art style I expect the figures to start demonstrating how to put on the drop-down oxygen masks and how to use your seat cushion as a flotation device.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm having flashbacks to Highlights magazine from some of the interior illustrations.

[identity profile] wintersweet.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
ahahaaha! I can picture it!

Only one reason why I love someecards.com ... I feel strongly that such illos deserve such captions.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Those are nice. The ones in the book, and that I mostly grew up with, tend to push the design envelope in directions I don't much like. XD
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
They are certainly more "Barbie&Ken" aesthetic to me. We had those illustrations, too. But Eva Kausche was for decades one of the most respected illustrators for her style, so I just want to point out that people exist who can actually do something with this kind of illustration ;-). She did all of the rororo editions of Georgette Heyer paperbacks for at least 30 years and these for me have never been topped even by using original paintings from the regency period.
They stopped releasing those in the 90s, though... I guess they lost interest or the publication rights. Ah well.
So I keep being pulled between wanting the original words and not wanting to lose the German covers, heh.
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