Tag: design

  • Magazine of the Week

    Welcome back to our weekly show-off page! This week’s title is a recent addition from a gift: Japanese magazines are really interesting because of the ways they reinterpret American pop culture in a completely different way.  This is one of several we subscribe to.  As you can see, this is focused on casual footwear. I…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Welcome back to Magazine of the Week! We would like to congratulate Esquire for publishing their 1000th issue!  And for being the premier voice of menswear style in America since 1933. Esquire began publishing in 1933, but was only distributed “to the trade” in men’s haberdashery (a.k.a. “furnishings” i.e. shirts, ties, and other underpinnings) shops. …

  • Needles in the Stacks: A Cinch to Stitch

    Welcome back to our regular review of sewing how-to books here in the library.  Sorry about the delay, but you all know what the beginning of the semester is like!  Denise Ingram and I both work in the Periodicals and Electronic Resources department of this library (on the 6th floor, where all the magazines are!). …