How The Whole Earth Catalog influenced Japanese magazine design

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It might be hard to understand now but when it first appeared, the Whole Earth Catalog was massively influential. It was a perfect combination of insightful and creative content/writing/layout/products selection and philosophy: DIY, ecologically sound, hopeful, approachable solutions. All of it wrapped in West Coast 60s culture with an emphasis on actually getting things done right.

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It’s fascinating how design concepts ripple back and forth across the world like waves - even if what formed along the way this time seems like a version of the crappy computer magazines that were 80% ads that you used to get for less than a quid

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I’ve always thought of it as pre-internet internet.

What I mean is it was a repository of sort of esoteric specialist knowledge.

And by internet I mean what the internet aspired to be before all the incels and nazis and shit, obviously.

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