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Graphic design items from Internet Archive

233 points by patrikcsak 3y ago

gfiorav 3y ago
This one caught my eye: An earthquake survival guide by… Apple? https://archives.design/post/643518046910234624/how-do-you-plan-to-survive-1986-california https://archives.design/post/643518046910234624/how-do-you-p...
- pcurve 3y ago
  It was distributed to all Apple employees
- JamesLeonis 3y ago
  According to the archive it was distributed in 1986. The Loma Prieta earthquake was in 1989. I remember growing up in California with the constant earthquake drills, and a few bumps in the night to remind you why you practiced. There are probably hundreds of boring Earthquake Prep manuals for every company, but Apple being Apple they made it pop. The During and After sections got a laugh out of me.
  - samstave 3y ago
    I have a weird personal internal hobby of attempting to predict earthquakes.... I live in California, and am 5th gen san franciscan... I lived in Tahoe during the 1989 Loma Prieta... I was at football practice and my dad was sitting in the car waiting for practice to end, and he thought that kids were jumping on the bumper to 'mess with him' - but it was the earthquake! It shook his car in LAKE FN TAHOE... Anyway - I am ZERO successful at predicting earthquakes, but I find it fun to pay attention to animals/weather and try to pull some cooky predictions, based on pseudo-science. I've been through a lot of earthquakes, and I am not dead yet! The scariest one was in ~1997 or so in seattle and I had to go back into the office at 9pm for some reason... and the building was ~80 years old and my office was on the 9th floor... the building started creaking and I thought it was hail hitting the windows - and then the whole building began to shake. I have never teleported down 9 flights of stairs faster than that moment.
- ptrkcsk 3y ago
  I love the Vehicle Signage part of Apple’s 1987 Logo Standards https://archives.design/post/641804140335464448/apple-logo-standards-1987-apple-this-is-a https://archives.design/post/641804140335464448/apple-logo-s...
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    "No. Nej. Non." "Nein, nein, NEIN!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lui0-4IW64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lui0-4IW64
skilled 3y ago
I would love a way to view all homepage graphics history of an archive.org page without needing to manually go back the years. Many companies ditch their SVG graphics after a redesign, but a lot of those SVGs have nice patterns that can be borrowed.
simse 3y ago
on the topic of design: no footer with infinite scroll!
- FireInsight 3y ago
  there's a footer, it's just hard to read
  - the-printer 3y ago
    I think what he's trying to say is that footers and infinite scroll do not mix well. I agree.
- ihuman 3y ago
  "This collection is compiled and curated by Valery Marier [0]. It is a labour of love ran in her free time." [0] https://marier.design https://marier.design
David_SQOX 3y ago
Nice site! Very clean/fast UI with a novel conceptualization, bookmarking it as I write this.
- rzzzt 3y ago
  Apple's own Books app was a famous example of moving the physical bookshelf to the screen. Strangely enough I can only find a handful of screenshots of it: http://thatkeith.com/articles/digital-skeuomorphism/ http://thatkeith.com/articles/digital-skeuomorphism/
  - lstamour 3y ago
    Technically the screenshot you’ve linked to is the iOS 5 newsstand: https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-to-get-started-with-ios-5s-newsstand/ https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-to-get-started-with-ios-5s-... But yes, iBooks did start with the same design: https://www.redmondpie.com/ibooks-3.0-all-set-to-be-announced-at-apple-october-23rd-event-according-to-this-itunes-leak-image/ https://www.redmondpie.com/ibooks-3.0-all-set-to-be-announce...
- efsgfssdf 3y ago
  The design was probably inspired by the Letterform Archive's relatively new site https://oa.letterformarchive.org/?searchText=graphic https://oa.letterformarchive.org/?searchText=graphic https://letterformarchive.org/news/the-online-archive-is-now-open-to-all/ https://letterformarchive.org/news/the-online-archive-is-now...
gen_greyface 3y ago
a similar website which i love is https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/ https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/
ZeroGravitas 3y ago
Not quite as beautiful, but there are some other curated collections at openlibrary (which shares the book access back-end with archive.org, but also has pages for not yet scanned items) e.g. Choose Your Own Adventure books: https://openlibrary.org/collections/CYOA https://openlibrary.org/collections/CYOA Full list of collections: https://openlibrary.org/collections https://openlibrary.org/collections
vanderZwan 3y ago
Not graphic design but art-related, here are two recommendations of mine: If you like Kandinsky I can recommend "On the spiritual in Art", which he wrote himself. It's mostly text, although there are some images. The thing is, given how many artists out there try to be as obfuscated as possible to keep their works open to interpretation, I really appreciate how he explains his reasoning, and it adds to the appreciation of his work. The other thing I find fun to read through (although sadly one can only digitally borrow it - luckily I have an actual print edition at home) is Hendrik Willem van Loon's "The Arts", which is a world history of art as summarized by one well-meaning historian in 1937. It's interesting to see what holds up, where he's clearly out of his depth (or just outdated), and what one might consider to have been "lost" in all the post-modern faffing of the last century. [0] https://archive.org/details/onspiritualinart00kand/ https://archive.org/details/onspiritualinart00kand/ [1] https://archive.org/details/arts00vanl/ https://archive.org/details/arts00vanl/

233 points by patrikcsak 3y ago

This one caught my eye: An earthquake survival guide by… Apple? https://archives.design/post/643518046910234624/how-do-you-plan-to-survive-1986-california https://archives.design/post/643518046910234624/how-do-you-p...

pcurve 3y ago
It was distributed to all Apple employees
JamesLeonis 3y ago
According to the archive it was distributed in 1986. The Loma Prieta earthquake was in 1989. I remember growing up in California with the constant earthquake drills, and a few bumps in the night to remind you why you practiced. There are probably hundreds of boring Earthquake Prep manuals for every company, but Apple being Apple they made it pop. The During and After sections got a laugh out of me.
- samstave 3y ago
  I have a weird personal internal hobby of attempting to predict earthquakes.... I live in California, and am 5th gen san franciscan... I lived in Tahoe during the 1989 Loma Prieta... I was at football practice and my dad was sitting in the car waiting for practice to end, and he thought that kids were jumping on the bumper to 'mess with him' - but it was the earthquake! It shook his car in LAKE FN TAHOE... Anyway - I am ZERO successful at predicting earthquakes, but I find it fun to pay attention to animals/weather and try to pull some cooky predictions, based on pseudo-science. I've been through a lot of earthquakes, and I am not dead yet! The scariest one was in ~1997 or so in seattle and I had to go back into the office at 9pm for some reason... and the building was ~80 years old and my office was on the 9th floor... the building started creaking and I thought it was hail hitting the windows - and then the whole building began to shake. I have never teleported down 9 flights of stairs faster than that moment.
ptrkcsk 3y ago
I love the Vehicle Signage part of Apple’s 1987 Logo Standards https://archives.design/post/641804140335464448/apple-logo-standards-1987-apple-this-is-a https://archives.design/post/641804140335464448/apple-logo-s...
- qingcharles 3y ago
  "No. Nej. Non." "Nein, nein, NEIN!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lui0-4IW64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lui0-4IW64

skilled 3y ago

I would love a way to view all homepage graphics history of an archive.org page without needing to manually go back the years. Many companies ditch their SVG graphics after a redesign, but a lot of those SVGs have nice patterns that can be borrowed.

simse 3y ago

on the topic of design: no footer with infinite scroll!

FireInsight 3y ago
there's a footer, it's just hard to read
- the-printer 3y ago
  I think what he's trying to say is that footers and infinite scroll do not mix well. I agree.
ihuman 3y ago
"This collection is compiled and curated by Valery Marier [0]. It is a labour of love ran in her free time." [0] https://marier.design https://marier.design

David_SQOX 3y ago

Nice site! Very clean/fast UI with a novel conceptualization, bookmarking it as I write this.

rzzzt 3y ago
Apple's own Books app was a famous example of moving the physical bookshelf to the screen. Strangely enough I can only find a handful of screenshots of it: http://thatkeith.com/articles/digital-skeuomorphism/ http://thatkeith.com/articles/digital-skeuomorphism/
- lstamour 3y ago
  Technically the screenshot you’ve linked to is the iOS 5 newsstand: https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-to-get-started-with-ios-5s-newsstand/ https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-to-get-started-with-ios-5s-... But yes, iBooks did start with the same design: https://www.redmondpie.com/ibooks-3.0-all-set-to-be-announced-at-apple-october-23rd-event-according-to-this-itunes-leak-image/ https://www.redmondpie.com/ibooks-3.0-all-set-to-be-announce...
efsgfssdf 3y ago
The design was probably inspired by the Letterform Archive's relatively new site https://oa.letterformarchive.org/?searchText=graphic https://oa.letterformarchive.org/?searchText=graphic https://letterformarchive.org/news/the-online-archive-is-now-open-to-all/ https://letterformarchive.org/news/the-online-archive-is-now...

gen_greyface 3y ago

a similar website which i love is https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/ https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

ZeroGravitas 3y ago

Not quite as beautiful, but there are some other curated collections at openlibrary (which shares the book access back-end with archive.org, but also has pages for not yet scanned items) e.g. Choose Your Own Adventure books: https://openlibrary.org/collections/CYOA https://openlibrary.org/collections/CYOA Full list of collections: https://openlibrary.org/collections https://openlibrary.org/collections

vanderZwan 3y ago

Not graphic design but art-related, here are two recommendations of mine: If you like Kandinsky I can recommend "On the spiritual in Art", which he wrote himself. It's mostly text, although there are some images. The thing is, given how many artists out there try to be as obfuscated as possible to keep their works open to interpretation, I really appreciate how he explains his reasoning, and it adds to the appreciation of his work. The other thing I find fun to read through (although sadly one can only digitally borrow it - luckily I have an actual print edition at home) is Hendrik Willem van Loon's "The Arts", which is a world history of art as summarized by one well-meaning historian in 1937. It's interesting to see what holds up, where he's clearly out of his depth (or just outdated), and what one might consider to have been "lost" in all the post-modern faffing of the last century. [0] https://archive.org/details/onspiritualinart00kand/ https://archive.org/details/onspiritualinart00kand/ [1] https://archive.org/details/arts00vanl/ https://archive.org/details/arts00vanl/