pt. 1. A history of magazine design -- Prologue: a new synthesis -- Illustrated magazines and the photographic revolution -- A dynamic iconography: magazines and the modern movement -- The big picture: photojournalism between the wars -- The first age of the art director: Cleland, Agha and Brodovitch -- The New York school: 1945-68 -- The new rationalists: a European revival -- 1968 and after: underground and up again.

pt. 2. New magazine design -- Journalism and art -- Structure, synthesis and meaning -- The cover -- Photography and illustration -- Into the unknown: magazines for an electronic age.