Blank VHS covers were kinda beautiful
An evening pause: This is hard to explain, other than to say that sometimes style and beauty is hidden in plain sight.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Yow! Have at least 3 copy-paper boxes full of the Memorex & Kodak brands. Never had good luck however with the super long-play mode; degraded picture quality & inevitable jamming. (way too similar to the super long play audio cassettes)
-Amazing how Formats come-n-go, at an increasing rate.
tangentially–
Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner
2013
https://youtu.be/OankHVwXX3Y
2:20
“Suzanne Vega “mother of the MP3 audio format” records “Tom’s Diner” onto an Edison wax cylinder at the Thomas Edison Historical Park in New Jersey.”
An interesting and entertaining way to take a short look at retail packaging design. Yes, there are talented folk who make their living with such.
Overviews – amazing the number of formats that have existed, even quite recently and are unknown to me – Timeline of media formats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_audio_formats
https://obsoletemedia.org/
The Mother Lode – Museum of Obsolete Technology
https://unequivocable.wordpress.com/
If you want to dig in and wallow in the details
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sound_recording
http://www.aes-media.org/historical/html/recording.technology.history/notes.html
The Evolution of Packaging; Chapter 3
“ How innovations shaped packaging over 150 years”
https://medium.com/digital-packaging-experiences/the-evolution-of-packaging-57259054792d
Interesting how the designers could imagine so many variations on the simple linear form and color.
I’m important reseed by the graphic production to animate all of these stylized package designs into a seamless clip morphing smoothly from one to the next. Someone had a lot of spare time, or perhaps this was a video editing project for a class. In any case very well done.
Gotta love auto-correct which changed “I’m impressed” into “I’m important reseed ” : )
MDN: Turn it off. I don’t use it, which might explain the many typos that I often miss and my kind readers often find for me to correct, but at least I’m making the error, not some brainless software I have little control over. :)