Business communication pre-Powerpoint.
I was discussing slide design with a colleague - specifically, the tendency of Powerpoint to kill good slide design - and remembered seeing these posted on Scott Hansen's Blog ISO50 a while back. They were originally posted at Square America with the heading "It’s 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future (Scenes From An IBM Slide Presentation)." Here's a small sample, but check out the full collection, too.
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Andrea — Jan 20, 2010
A great new article at Good.is picks out the most important moments for design in the 'oughts.
No Logo, 2001
The whole article is more than worth a read. Here, I've excerpted parts relevant to our interest (design ethics) below.
2000
No Logo, Naomi Klein’s treatise on anti-globalization, sets the tone for the decade's debates about consumerism and branding.
American Apparel moves into its current factory in downtown Los Angeles. Under the leadership of Dov Charney, it becomes an incongruous champion of locally-produced fair-labor clothing, racy quasi-pornographic advertising, and Helvetica.
After a tight presidential election introduces the world to the Floridian hanging chad, AIGA's Design for Democracy begins a massive effort to redesign and standardize voting across the nation.
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Paul — Jan 11, 2010
