How To Display Old Magazines

The obvious way to sort your newspapers or magazines is by year but if you have specific interests elections disasters cultural events these categories will certainly work as a system as well.

How to display old magazines. People keep old magazines for a variety of reasons. Assuming they re old as in not just last year s people i would frame them individually like saturday evening post etc. If you re hoping to keep these magazines for the long haul like a century or more i would start getting into archival boxes climate control white gloves and the like. Problem is we re pretty much just storing them flat in totes or boxes which doesn t it very easy to review them and they re not organized very well.

Cola crate this magazine storage table is actually an old cola crate that anna cardone owner of the etsy shop revisited concepts updated with distressed annie sloan chalk paint and a set of stylish legs. Putting magazines in plastic folders is one way to preserve old newspapers and magazines. She turned a vintage record display case into a smart looking magazine holder seen here next to a salon dryer chair that she scored from her uncle s attic. If they re art magazines or maybe magazines like national geographic and are still fairly new i d get an oversized frame from and arts and crafts supply store or even a cheaper custom frame and maybe have between 20 25 of them framed side by side forming a grid.

Due to the different sizes of magazines the fame size will vary. 5 ways to save and store historical newspapers and magazines 1. If that is true the printed glossies we love to receive in the mail each month might be a distant memory. A store bought frame in the size of the magazine should work well.

Magazine covers can make one of a kind art pieces. This is all the more reason to put those magazines on display rather than on a bookshelf or in a pile la dolce vita recently featured the home of kyle from knight moves. Wifey and i collect a lot of paper stuff and we re amassing a large number of old magazines ranging from early 20th century stuff to modern glossy magazines. Whether you re a magazine collector plan on selling them one day or you just want to keep them for the cover art or specific articles it s important to store the magazines properly so they don t become damaged.

With the advent of the ipad and web magazines some are claiming that the magazine as we know it is dead. Create a sorting system. The process of framing a magazine does not differ much from framing a picture or another piece of artwork.