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Classic Playboy And Contemporary Web Design

Playboy Magazine’s “What Sort Of Man Reads Playboy” advertisements from the 1960s and 1970s illustrate continuities and discontinuities between pre-internet and contemporary copywriting and design.

Before the Internet, as now, images accomplished most of the work. Playboy’s advertisements relied on a striking photograph to attract and keep the attention of… read more