"The BBC's handbooks were published yearly from 1928 to 1987, apart from a two-year break in 1953-1954. Alongside the Annual Report and Accounts, which the BBC is required to submit to Parliament, these handbooks were intended to be a publicly available report of what it did and why."
http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/group.php?cid=9781851171385&pid=bb...
"Nitsche moved back to Geneva in 1960 where he founded ENI (Erik Nitsche international). He produced pictoral history books; ambitious volumes such as the histories of transportation, aviation, photography, astronomy and chemistry. His largest project was a twenty volume set visualizing the history of music, from classical to jazz, composition to instrumentation. He managed to select and organize great masses of material." http://www.iconofgraphics.com/Erik-Nitsche/
Source:
Bad news for the Flickr Nitsche archive - http://www.flickr.com/people/eriknitsche/
But Does It Float Nitsche content - http://butdoesitfloat.com/filter/erik-nitsche
Symphonie Fantastique - http://symfantastique.blogspot.com/search/label/Erik%20Nitsche
Decca Records by Erik Nitsche - http://blog.signalnoise.com/2009/10/29/decca-records-by-erik-nitsche/
My previous post on Erik Nitsche: General Dynamics Identity 1952-60 - http://kathykavan.com/erik-nitsche-general-dynamics-identity-1955-6
To appreciate computer graphics now we should also remember the then...
This post includes 1970's retrospective and documentary followed by some 1980's delights! Want more? Visit 'A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation' here http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/lesson6.html
History of Computer Graphics (1972)
A computer graphics retrospective
Stan Vanderbeek: The Computer Generation part 1
Documentary from 1972 by John Musilli
Stan Vanderbeek: The Computer Generation part 2
Documentary from 1972 by John Musilli
Panasonic "Glider" 1981
Robert Abel and Associates commercial for panasonic with music tat sounds a lot like the love theme from the Superman movies
1981 Early Computer Graphics
Adam Powers, the juggler, from an early III demo reel
Remember the animation of the Death Star that was shown to pilots in the Rebel Alliance?...Course you do - well the computer graphics for the first Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1977 were created by Larry Cuba at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information on the lab, visit the website www.evl.uic.edu and Larry Cuba at www.well.com/user/cuba and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Cuba
Image source: http://www.empireonline.com/features/history-of-cgi/p3
...Other early Larry Cuba Computer Graphics
"(1985) Calculated Movements by Larry Cuba is an example of early video art using software developed at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL). The video has a minimalist/ambient original sound piece."
The visualisation of music is a perfect vehicle for designers to graphically play - here's a classically themed collection which, whether you like classical music or not, are visually stunning.
http://www.projectthirtythree.com
http://symfantastique.blogspot.com
http://retrographica.blogspot.com
World Record Club (Australian) Covers - http://www.flickr.com/photos/23023719@N04/sets/72157603916589884/
If you’re in search of inspiration, this 'Inspiration Pad' by Brussels based Art Director Marc Thomasset might help. Every page shows a different variation of lines and grids. 32 pages, dimensions 165 x 210 mm, softcover. Buy from here http://www.tmsprl.com/shop.html and see other work here http://www.tmsprl.com/
Thought it was about time I posted a collection of my favourite Blue Note album covers, sourced from the extensive collection by Vintage Vangard http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote1/index.htm
Thanks to Gilliom on Monsieur Bandit blog for posting this rather good video of animated Blue Note record covers http://monsieurbandit.blogspot.com/2010/06/jazz-covers-2-reid-miles.html
UPDATE: Thanks to Ralph Lichtensteiger ( http://posterous.com/people/KHs87Fyl6F ) for posting this great Reid Miles link: http://www.hardformat.org/the-designers/reid-miles2/
IBM 'Smarter Planet' Branding
Office SF http://www.visitoffice.com/main.html collaborated with Ogilvy and Mather http://www.ogilvy.com/ for a Paul Rand inspired visual style for IBM's Smarter Planet Project http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ - the results are bold, colourful and stunning taking inspiration from Paul Rand's original IBM graphic heritage (see below).
Animated: http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/smarterplanet/index.shtml#/midsized_busin...
Digital Signage: http://www.lushconcepts.com/our-work/ibm-smarter-planet/#1
Found via: http://www.designworklife.com/?p=16063 and http://allanpeters.blogspot.com/2010/06/ibm-smarter-planet.html
Featuring work from: http://www.non-format.com/showcase/ibm-smarter-planet/1/ - and website blogged on: http://www.isuriato.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/ibms-smarter-planet/
IBM Original Branding by Paul Rand
1993 Interview with Steve Jobs on Paul Rand
More on the Paul Rand tribute site: http://www.paul-rand.com/
Good reference in this Paul Rand Flickr set - http://www.flickr.com/photos/20745656@N00/sets/72157603921499642/with/2409471... and Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/paul_rand_design/
Short but sweet - By Vitzemcik "An educational project made during the International Typography Workshop in Czieszyn. The task was to put a print design masterpiece into motion."
