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Mid-century science and faux sci-fi books

I enjoyed the visual kinship between two recent discoveries: a gallery of video games as vintage sci-fi paperbacks and a Flickr set of science and technology ads published in the '50s and '60s. The simple lines, blocks of color and clean fonts in both galleries indicate that the video game spoofs did pretty well at picking up on a "vintage" aesthetic. The video game paperbacks were curated by Kotaku from this Something Awful thread; the Flickr set popped up in my Google Reader via Design Observer.

Filed under  //   advertising   color   game   graphic design   mid-century   sci-fi   science   technology   video game  

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A new museum in San Francisco's Presidio

Should Gap founder Don Fisher build a museum for his modern art collection in the Presidio?  Jimmy Stamp at Life Without Buildings looks to sci-fi for an answer.

It seems that at some point in this alternate history, San Francisco's preservationists eventually conceded defeat. An "air tram station" boldly looks out over the Golden Gate Bridge and SF Bay. A softer mix of Brutalism and basic curvy sci-fi movie architecture. Ideal? No. But definitely an improvement over the current faux-historic designs mandated by overly-vocal and underly-visionary individuals, committees and trusts.

Filed under  //   architecture   museum   san francisco   sci-fi   science  

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