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In 1978, when I was a senior in high school, my art teacher gave me some graphic design magazines. Knowing I loved art and design, he told me “Hold on to these.
It is therefore essential that visual communication through graphic design recognises our ability to transform messages and alter meaning according to life.
They will be worth something one day.” What he gave me was a nearly complete set of Avant Garde, an innovative arts and culture magazine published between January 1968 and July 1971.
At the time, I could not have understood the significance of these magazines or what they were all about.
So, I browsed through them a couple of times and then stuck them in a box. And there they sat for 35 years until a few months ago when I dug them out started looking through them again.
If you know something about the social and cultural climate in America during 1968-71, you can probably figure out what the magazine was about.
For example, issue number 7 from March 1969 had a front cover photograph that is a parody of Archibald Willard’s famous patriotic painting “The Spirit of ’76”; Carl Fischer’s version of the image includes a white