Magazines from Blade Runner

Here's a collection of humorous, futuristic magazines displayed in the background of the news-stand scene in Blade Runner -- documented in Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon:

Turning down the block and ducking into a futuristic newsstand revealed the most humorous touches of layering, for it was here that this author immediately noticed that a number of faux twenty-first-century magazines had been stuffed into racks mounted on the newsstand's walls, and that many of them sported decidedly tongue-in-cheek covers.
These publications had been designed by BR art department member Tom Southwell. Periodicals of note include Krotch (going for $29 a copy!), Zord (at $30), Moni, Bash, Creative Evolution, and Droid. Horn, the "skin mag" of the future, had a cover which offered articles such as "The Cosmic Orgasm" and "Hot Lust in Space." Kill (whose logo was "All the News That's Fit to Kill") sported cover stories like "Multiple Murders - Reader's Own Photos."

Magazines from the future

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If Ridley Scott were into George Lucas-style revising, it would totally rock if he were to throw a copy of Make on the newsstand, perhaps with a cover photo of Adam Savage posing with his replica Blade Runner gun. http://boingboing.net/2010/03/09/adam-savage-my-blade.html
http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

Magazines? Newsstands? In the Future?
- oasisob1
  
  I believe in it.
- Cowicide
  
  Welp, it is now the future and we still got them. So, yep.
  - http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
    
    No (true Scotsman’s) future will contain magazines.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

In the future most magazines will have 4 letter word names. Like OMNI. Or be an anagram of OMNI, like MONI
- http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
  
  And NOMI Klein will say, “There is no logo”
- Mark Dow
  
  I NOM: cuisine for the post-apocolypse gourmand.
- Halloween_Jack
  
  I was pretty sure that Omni was going to turn into something like Horn, especially since Bob Guccione used similar layouts and typefaces to what he used in Penthouse, at least during that part of the 80s when I was paying attention to both. Actually, Horn isn’t that far off from latter-day Heavy Metal (the magazine).
  - http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis
    
    I keep thinking the woman is a re-drawn Heavy Metal cover, Sorayama illustration, or Nagel, but I can’t quite place it.
- http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael
  
  XENI + CORY + MARK + DAVE + MAGS + ROBB + ERIC := BONG (BONG)
miasm

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Goldwater/806673997 Shawn Goldwater

Does anyone remember the scene where this magazine stand would have appeared?
- http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood
  
  Ridleyville News. So it’s…um…in the scene that has this in it.
willyboy

‘Scratch and Sniff Centerspread’, It’s about frackin time.
- http://hellsdonuthouse.com/ Hell’s Donut House
  
  Hustler did it in 1977: http://www.coverjunkie.com/uploads/1283461058.jpg
  - willyboy
    
    Do they have an online version of this?
DrBrunvand

I have to express my disappointment.
The Kill issue is dated january 2020.

Dear editor, since Kill claims to be a monthly magazine there’s something rather unexact on your cover. Everybody knows it’s november, 2019.
- http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt
  
  Many publications have a date that is in the future of when it actually available. The Austin Chronicle for some reason is always dated for Friday but actually comes out on Thursday.
- http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis
  
  In the 80s comic books were cover dated 3 months ahead. Maybe in the future magazines will be too.
BarBarSeven

In the future, print publications are so quaint nobody uses photos. They are all hand colored after being Xeroxed & a local “Space Kinko’s.”
http://twitter.com/ScissorNightRam Lennoxx Bllaze Wesst

Debbie Harry?
niktemadur

What, no Boing Boing Magazine?!!
The future (as seen from 1982) is too edgy for my taste, it needs Xeni on the cover, holding a plush, mariachi Artoo Deetoo. And supersonically-flavored chocolate chip cookie toothpaste ads.
http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

In a similar vein I think the hand made lighted windows in the miniature Los Angeles look like the patterns from Conways Game of Life. Its probably an accident. Very hard to deliberately make things random.

Incidently Disqus is broken. It tries to dynamically retrieve images from URLs as I type. It intercepts key strokes and gets itself in a horrible mess. Pasting image URL in now
- miasm
  
  there are only so many angles you can shoot a futuristic building, with a flying-car park on the roof, from.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Csaba-Kertesz/100000443055160 Csaba Kertesz

Fake magazines are created for background color /set decoration. We in the art department try to have some fun with this part of the work we do to please and awe you the unsuspecting audience.
Thanks for taking notice of our labors.