I was at my fiancée's parents' place last weekend, and they had something very interesting sitting on their coffee table.  In very good condition, it was the 10 year anniversary edition of Rolling Stone.  Rolling Stone magazine was started in 1967, which meant that the magazine I was looking at was printed in 1977 - 32 years ago for those of you keeping count.

I figured I'd have a look and see what layout trends I could pick up from it.  I hadn't jumped that far back in a design-intensive mainstream publication before without being guided to it.  Yes, I have seen examples of design from other eras, I have seen old National Geographics, old newspapers, et cetera, but the nature of advertisements in some of those publications just didn't resonate with me the way the ones in this Rolling Stone magazine did.  There were ads for cars, ads for Technics turntables, and there was an ad for the new Queen album that had just come out.  Earlier in the day I saw a poster in downtown Victoria for a Queen tribute band that was coming to town.  I felt like I was in a time machine.