Paula Scher

An American graphic designer who was the principal designer for pentagram, still a key designer today in many ways, she created this publication along with Terry Koppel, it was a collaboration to showcase their skills, trying to interpret the book and reflect the time period.

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Another thing of note that Paula went through was the concept of Ideas, By

Alan Fletcher

Founded a design form called Fletcher/Forbes/Gill. he always experimented with typography, cutting and sticking words and using collage to mix words

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Tibor Kalman

The founder of COLORS magazine, he used his work and ideas to promote human rights and fight against racism, war etc.

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Hipgnosis

Hipgnosis were an English art design group, based in London, that specialised in creating album cover artwork for rock musicians and bands. it consisted of members such as Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, and later Peter Christopherson. they are known best for the Pink Floyd album covers

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The Rise of the Machines

The idea of a Smartphone was conceptualised in 1945 with this quote:

Consider a future device… in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory. —Dr. Vannevar Bush

1965 First comercial stored-program desktop computer Olivetti Programma 101
1971 First microprocessor  Intel 4004
1971 IBM introduces 8-inch floppy disk
1971 First e-mail sent
1972 First video game console Magnavox Odyssey released
1977 First generation personal computers Apple II, TRS-80, Commodore PET
1982 First compact disc released
1982 William Gibson uses the term “cyberspace” in his novel Burning Chrome
1983 First mobile phone Motorola DynaTac
1983 GUI implemented for the first time on the Apple Lisa
1988 First direct IP connection between Europe and North America
1988 First commerical digital camera
1989 Tim Berners-Lee proposes an “information managment system”
1989 Tim Berners-Lee implements the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
1989 15% of all US households own a personal computer
1991 World Wide Web becomes publically accessible

Emigre Magazine

Emigre, Inc. is a digital type foundry based in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1984, coinciding with the birth of the Macintosh computer, the Emigre team, consisting of Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, with the addition of Tim Starback in 1993, were among the early adaptors to the new digital technology.

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The Designers Republic

The Designers Republic is a British graphic design studio based in Sheffield, England, founded in 1986 by Ian Anderson and Nick Phillips. They are best known for electronic music logos, album artwork, and anti-establishment aesthetics, embracing "brash consumerism and the uniform style of corporate brands".

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