Category:Meccano Magazine sections

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"In Reply" - a regular Meccano Magazine page that tested the designers creativity and inventiveness by having its header redesigned over and over and over again -

"In Reply" - a regular Meccano Magazine page that tested the designers creativity and inventiveness by having its header redesigned over and over and over again - [image info]

... and again ... -

... and again ... - [image info]

... and again ... -

... and again ... - [image info]

Meccano Magazine made a substantial investment in artwork, and its regular section usually had individually designed graphically-dense headers, whose purpose was to excite and make the magazine look more expensive.

These header graphics pushed the limits of what could be achieved within the confines of black and white magazine printing, with overlays of lineart and retouched photographic images, and multiple components and with different greys that somehow managed to achieve legibility, clarity, and separation, using a range of deliberately disparate styles and variations that you'd think wouldn't be possible with just black, white and grey.

These headers were practically a foundation course in how to produce a range of artwork that reproduces well in small sizes on newsprint, and just to make a point, even the regular pages often had their headers redesigned from scratch every month.

Gallery of header artwork

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