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Cool Retro Computer Manuals & Ads

I can't get enough of all these manuals...'Selling the Computer Revolution' - is a brilliant archive of computer manuals from 1948-1988, it includes full pdf's of the manuals http://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/index.php

More ref: Archive of Computer Ads - http://www.fulltable.com/vts/c/comm/com.htm and the original find: http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com/2009/04/vintage-computer-brochures.html

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Vintage Chinese 'Health for the People' Posters

Children's Health (Pictures 1-8) - Do Physical Exercise. Get the BCG Inoculation. Don’t Spit Anywhere. Love Cleanliness and Sanitation. "In the 20th century, under both Nationalist and Communist governments, China supported public health measures as a way to strengthen the country. The state promoted preventative health, and children were a particular concern for both the health and the education ministries. The children’s health material promoted exercise, vaccination, controlling spitting, keeping utensils clean, and honest behavior."

Family Planning (Pictures 9-14) - Beginning in the 1970s, China strongly promoted policies of limiting fertility, using the slogan "wan, xi, shao" – 晚 稀 少 – "later,longer, fewer."

Medical Advertisements (Pictures 16-19) - "The Tianjin Pharmaceutical Factory, founded in 1921, used western methods to produce and market traditional Chinese medicines. The sheets shown here advertise a mix of European and Asian products, using ideal feminine and masculine images as well as the Tian An Men (Gate of Heavenly Peace). Ads for progesterone and methyltestosterone show the appeal of potent over-the-counter hormone therapies."

The Four Pests (Pictures 20-21) - "Beginning in the 1950s, the Chinese state mounted the Patriotic Health Campaigns to improve sanitation and public health. In 1958 the campaigns focused on the "the four pests": rats, sparrows, flies and mosquitoes."

What to do about one's mistakes (Cycle through 12 consecutive frames) - This series of transparencies teaches children how to admit their mistakes and correct wrong behavior. An energetic little boy is playing with a ball and accidentally breaks a window. Classmates and their teacher think another child is the perpetrator, until the boy admits his mistake. An understanding between teacher and playmates contributes to a happy ending.

All from the US National Library of Medicine archives - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/healthforthepeople/index.html

I ♥ Polaroid Rainbow Stripes Branding

'The Branding of Polaroid' http://www.zlok.net/blog/2008/07/15/the-branding-of-polaroid/ and 'Polapackages' article http://moominsean.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

Paul Giambarba, the designer who worked on Polaroid's Identity between 1958-1977 http://giam.typepad.com/the_branding_of_polaroid_/ "Paul Giambarba initiated Polaroid's corporate image development and product identity in 1958. His innovative black packaging successfully subdued the dominance of Kodak yellow at point-of-purchase and spawned a vogue of black packaging within the industry. Creator of the ubiquitous Polaroid color stripes, one of the most widely imitated design devices of the last several decades, he designed and produced hundreds of Polaroid packages and collateral material including consumer literature and "How to Make Better Polaroid Instant Pictures," a trade book for Doubleday & Co." Also, see his latest work for Polaroid here http://giambarba.com/

Don't forget to look at my other Polaroid post 'Viva La Polaroid' which focuses on some great Polaroid photo collections http://kathykavan.posterous.com/viva-la-polaroid-abstract-flickr

Polaroid pic archives in these big Flickr Groups: http://www.flickr.com/groups/polaroid_/ and http://www.flickr.com/groups/14462747@N00/

Want more, buy the book 'Polaroid Book' by Barbara Hitchcock/Taschen - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Polaroid-Book-Barbara-Hitchcock/dp/3822830720/ref=sr_...

Cool Chinese Book Covers

More from the collection here http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/sets/72157623667919530/with/4453166...

"from the book "Selections of Designing Work the Central Academy of Arts & Design 1956-1986" by Zhong Yang, Gong Yi Mei Shu Xue Yuan and She Ji Pin Xuan. Found this at a rare/used book store and can find no information about it online.  The Central Academy of Arts & Design is now known as "China Central Academy Of Fine Arts", www.cafa.edu.cn/channel.asp?id=10 "

More great ephemera by the same guy, I could stay on this site for aeons!! http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com/