Magazine Civilização
I wish I could read Portuguese. Anyone out there able to give me some historical info on the Portuguese magazine Civilização? For the past month or so, I've spotted several Civilização images over at my dear Dias Que Voam, whose posts I pore over multiple times per day without understanding 95.3% of what I'm not-really-reading. (The remaining 4.7% is what my French background helpfully whispers to me. Like, I know the magazine's a monthly, and I can read the date on each of the covers. I know, my brilliance astounds. Pff.)
Anyway, enjoy the visuals below, which range from cover designs to interior pages of various issues of Magazine Civilização from the 1920s and '30s:
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Thanks so incredibly much to Teresa of Dias Que Voam for posting (and translating!) a mini-history of this magazine in her comment below. And also for posting yet another fabulous cover for the magazine today on her blog:
Reader Comments (4)
I wiil try to do that, but i have to ask for help. Give me one or two days:) My written english is not good enough.
T (Teresa Guerreiro)
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See more of Magazine Civilização here.
This monthly magazine was founded in 1928 by two Portuguese’s writers,
Ferreira de Castro and Campos Monteiro . The publisher was
Editora Civilização, Porto and its articles concerned with the
society of north Portugal.
Several great writers and modern artists worked there, some of them well known, like Almada Negreiros and José Tagarro and many others almost forgotten today as João Carlos and Joaquim
Mirão.
The child's section was very interesting, issuing many BD that
you can find in Comiclopedia ( http://lambiek.net/artists). Go further and search
there for Guida Ottolini please. A great feminist writer, Maria Lamas,
worked in the magazine as well.
The edition dedicated to the Colonial Exposition in Porto(1934) was
particularly important for the history of this event.
The magazine ended in 1937/December; another review, Magazine Bertrand was published then in Lisbon, also a very interesting one ( 1928/ 1933).
If you need more information, please ask T (Teresa Guerreiro)
What a great designs! There are so retro. Weeks ago I saw a logo of an India Pharmacy but the old ones. It was so amazing to see the old designs of different trademarks.