2/9 Response: historical readings

It is tricky to define a certain period of design style because standards and principles do not match design. What impressed me most was how designers, no matter in what publications, gradually developed their own style in a certain history period. Vice verse, it was all the individual designers that defined the design history of different time periods.

Here are some examples I consider using historical ideas in contemporary magazines. 

Magnifying details to amplify the dramatic visual impact .This is the feature story on movies depicting mental diseases in 2010 Nov.— Dec. issue of Mental Floss.

Photo montage is a controversial topic at the time. Surely most photographers won't like it, maybe not so much editors will do. But there are quite some designers are into this, some even got fired for that.
This spread is from 2010 Nov. issue of Vanity Fair.

 This spread in the Dec. 20-27 issue of New York which  has a strong editorial element in it.: photo vignettes

 This is something I found online: maximization of colors combined with rough texture.