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For this project, we collected Vogue magazine covers manually from scans that other people have uploaded onto a public site (http://www.whosdatedwho.com/what/magazine_view.asp?ID=232&year=1930). Covers were also collected from the official Vogue website itself (http://www.vogue.co.uk/magazine/archive/default.aspx). Each image file was manually pulled as data and renamed by hand to organize them by Country, Month, and Year. By renaming the files accordingly, we were then able to categorize the data by Country, Month and Year in Excel. Primarily using ImageJ to create visualizations, we faced the challenge of finding an effective way to present all significant, cultural changes in Vogue from different times and places. We had also experimented with many other tools such as Flash and Mondrian. However, we decided that ImageJ was the best program to effectively portray all cultural significances of Vogue magazine by cover. After gathering and renaming the images, we organized them as data in excel where the x-axis represented the month that a certain magazine was published in, and the y-axis represented the year. This data was then used in an ImageJ “Image-Plot” macro provided by Lev Manovich, which created a visual graph. On each x and y axis, an image of the corresponding cover is placed on a point in the graph. Other techniques and programs such as Adobe Photoshop were then used to refine the visualizations, which produced the final product.