A collection by imagii
Vintage Magazine Art
Covers that were never printed, for issues that never ran.
The collection
Vintage Magazine Art is imagii's full collection of original wall art prints styled as mid-century magazine covers. Invented titles, imagined issue numbers, cover stars who were never photographed — a newsstand from a decade that looked like this only in the imagination.
Everything here is drawn and produced by imagii. Nothing is a reproduction, a scan or a licensed reprint of an existing publication. The collection runs in two title series, each with its own masthead and house style.
The two series
Two titles, one imagined archive
Think of them as two magazines that ran side by side on the same newsstand — different editors, different typography, the same invented world.
VINTOIRE
Our own named title
Vintoire is the magazine we invented outright — a fashion title with its own script masthead, its own dateline and its own editorial eye. The covers carry the glamour of mid-century high society, from the salons of Paris and the Riviera to the avenues of New York.
Where a cover needs a name of its own, this is the one it wears.
VINTAGE
The period masthead
These covers wear the VINTAGE masthead as a period device — set the way the mid-century press would have set it, wide and squared across the top of the page. It reads as an era rather than a brand, which leaves each cover free to tell its own story underneath.
The result feels found: a back issue pulled from a run that never existed.
The making
Invented from the masthead down
Original throughout
The title, the date, the issue number, the cover lines — every element is written and designed by imagii. Nothing is lifted from a real publication, and no cover reproduces one.
Built as a real cover
Masthead, dateline, price corner, a single arresting figure. Each piece follows the grammar of the golden-age press, so it reads as a collectible rather than a poster of one.
Sized for the wall
Every design comes in a range of sizes and finishes, with framing options, so a cover can sit alone or hang as part of a run.
The conceit
An archive that never existed
There was no Vintoire. There was no run of VINTAGE. That is the whole idea. Each cover borrows the language of the mid-century newsstand — the sweeping masthead, the dateline, the cover line that promises more than it can deliver — and uses it to tell a small invented story. A figure, a setting, a year that never was.
Collected together, they read as back issues from a publishing house that only ever existed on a wall.
Hanging them
Read one, or read the run
A single cover
One piece carries a room on its own — a hallway, a dressing room, above the bar cart. Character on arrival, and a story to ask about.
A matched pair
Two covers from the same title, hung together, read as consecutive issues. The shared masthead does the work of a frame.
A full newsstand
Mix both series across a grid and the wall becomes an archive — the effect that boutiques, salons and hotels tend to be after.
Browse
Find your cover
Every print is available in a range of sizes and finishes, ready to frame — take a single title, or pair covers across both.