[HN Gopher] Graphic design items from Internet Archive
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Graphic design items from Internet Archive
Author : ptrkcsk
Score : 152 points
Date : 2023-06-18 15:51 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (archives.design)
(TXT) w3m dump (archives.design)
| gfiorav wrote:
| This one caught my eye:
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| An earthquake survival guide by... Apple?
|
| https://archives.design/post/643518046910234624/how-do-you-p...
| ptrkcsk wrote:
| I love the Vehicle Signage part of Apple's 1987 Logo Standards
|
| https://archives.design/post/641804140335464448/apple-logo-s...
| JamesLeonis wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| pcurve wrote:
| It was distributed to all Apple employees
| skilled wrote:
| 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.
| ZeroGravitas wrote:
| 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:
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| https://openlibrary.org/collections/CYOA
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| Full list of collections:
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| https://openlibrary.org/collections
| gen_greyface wrote:
| a similar website which i love is
| https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/
| simse wrote:
| on the topic of design: no footer with infinite scroll!
| FireInsight wrote:
| there's a footer, it's just hard to read
| the-printer wrote:
| I think what he's trying to say is that footers and infinite
| scroll do not mix well. I agree.
| ihuman wrote:
| "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
| David_SQOX wrote:
| Nice site! Very clean/fast UI with a novel conceptualization,
| bookmarking it as I write this.
| efsgfssdf wrote:
| The design was probably inspired by the Letterform Archive's
| relatively new site
| https://oa.letterformarchive.org/?searchText=graphic
|
| https://letterformarchive.org/news/the-online-archive-is-now...
| rzzzt wrote:
| 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/
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