30 Year Old PC Ads That Will Blow Your Processor

Recent blog post at  informationtechnologyschools.org featuring a great collection of vintage PC magazine ads.

the leak in your hometown

this is a great example of culture jamming and while we are on the topic of Augmented Reality,  Breadboard is working with VPAP on a Philly project that will give 8 local artists a chance to create
there own virtual art work and use it to tag locations around town. A new kind of
site-specific…

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Man & Computer

Starting in the 1940s, IBM became a major producer of films used for sales, training, documenting business processes, entertaining at company functions, and educating the public. Several IBM films were made by respected filmmakers and sometimes featured well-known actors. This film, Man & Computer was made [...]

something fun for a Monday afternoon

Creativity and innovation often trump necessity as the mother of invention. Take these two brother’s from Estonia, for example. Their website features more than a few really great font designs: handmadefont.com

“…Talking with Paige Saez about ImageWiki”

“The Imawik (ImageWiki) is a visual search tool for mobile devices. It allows for the ability to turn images into physical hyperlinks, conflating visual culture with a community-editable universal namespace for images.”

Paige Saez is an artist, designer and researcher.  In 2007 she founded Makerlab with Anselm Hook, an arts and technology incubator focused on civic and environmental projects.

“Mad Men” meets “Flash Gordon”

Megan Prelinger’s ( Prelinger Library ) new book, “Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962” is due out on May 25 by Blast Books.

Prelinger’s book is inspired by a unique and potent period of space age art and graphic design featured in magazine ad campaigns of the 1950′s and 60′s and is very relevant to the current [...]

“Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957–62″

an interesting blog post about ‘old school’ art & technology   @   BERG blog

Exhibition catalog, pub. The Stables Art Gallery of Taos. n.d., [...]

Chair in space (art into advertising)

In 2004 Simon Faithfull launched Escape Vehicle no.6 – a weather balloon released to the edge of space including a live video relay of  a domestic chair attached by rope dangling in space beneath it.

Below is Toshiba’s latest advertising campaign for their new flat [...]