VIDEOLAND: A Visual Catalog of American Video Store Logos, 1980-1995 Has stock in Germany Akshay Mahajan

Akshay Mahajan

encompassing contributions from 74 authors

chronological

and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

VIDEOLAND: A Visual Catalog of American Video Store Logos, 1980-1995 Has stock in Germany Akshay MahajanIn the vanishingly short period of time video rental stores were a part of the cultural landscape, thousands of mom and pop shops codified a surprisingly unified visual identity for their logos: a wonderland of Video Wizards, Huts, Castles, Shacks and Villages, all imbued with an old timey Hollywood glitz and modern techno optimism. Videoland collects over 100 logos from independent video stores during the 1980s and '90s, thematically and