Relive the Sixties

This is one of Robert Opie's wonderful scrapbooks.  The format is deceptively simple, each spread has a big photo devoted to one theme: food packets, teenage magazines, Barbie dolls, film posters, sweet wrappers etc. You can see dozens of packets your ma kept in the kitchen cupboard or maybe that car brochure dad had back then, maybe you used one of the twenty toothpastes (page nineteen) in your bathroom. The 1400 items pictured in this book are mostly what the rest of us would have thrown away, Opie wisely (for us) saved it all for his packaging and print museum in London. He produced nine of these scrapbooks, from Victorian times to the 1970's version and they all follow the same format. This is an excellent resource book for those interested in graphic design of the period or just a nostalgia for the past.