photo: taipei dragon
Iain Anderson’s animated film, Aiport, shows even the most pedestrian of designs come to life with a bit of creativity.
Elsewhere, a post at Copyfight, suggests that the availability of those symbols — their freedom from copyright and trademark restrictions — was a key factor in spurring their broad adoption, creating both the culture and the [...]
We can be forgiven for not noticing, but the world changed not long ago.
Sometime after the academics gave up complaining about the apparent commercialization of the internet, and while Wall Street was licking it’s wounds after the first internet boom went bust, the world changed.
Around the time we realized that over 200 million Americans have [...]
Think now of the US interstate highway system. Like the internet that followed, the highway system was the subject of much hype and conjecture. Most notably, Norman Bel Geddes’ -designed General Motors Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York Word’s Fair. In it we saw magical highways connecting our cities, and whisking motorists from New [...]
CommonCensus Map Project:
The CommonCensus Map Project is redrawing the map of the United States based on your voting, to show how the country is organized culturally, as opposed to traditional political boundaries. It shows how the country is divided into ’spheres of influence’ between different cities at the national, regional, and local levels.
tags: common census, [...]
We’ve seen lists like this before. Beloit College in Beloit Wisconsin releases their “Mindeset List†for their incoming class every year around now. The point is to remind us how cultural touchstones change over time. It does that, but it also give us (me, anyway) a good chuckle.
It’s worth reading all the way down to [...]
I get a kick out of these 1948 and 1950 Life magazine covers. Take a look and I think you’ll agree that no magazine puts photos like this on their covers today.
tags: 1948, 1950, culture, life, life magazine, magazine covers, magazines, retro
