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Tracking innovation through posters

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: February 3, 2011

The ephemeral poster reveals a rapid history of technological advances.

Vintage posters might not seem like the most obvious way to look at technological advances. Yet this collection of vintage posters from an upcoming show facilitated by the International Vintage Poster Dealers Association walks us through a hundred years of rapidly unfolding technological triumphs, from the introduction of metal plumbing all the way to the release of the iPod. Wired has a selection over in their GadgetLab blog that reveals both the brisk pace of innovation and the changing design sensibilities implemented in the presentation of these new ideas.

Printed matter, especially ephemeral objects like posters, can serve as valuable artifacts of their time and place. Peek these posters and see for yourself.

Institute for the Future of the Book

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: August 17, 2010

"For now, we use the word 'book' broadly, even metaphorically, to talk about what has come before — and what might come next."

The Institute for the Future of the Book is a Brooklyn-based “think-and-do tank” that investigates the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from the printed page to the screen. A project of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, if:book is charging ahead with documentation, interactive projects and a healthy dose of musing on the possibilities of what our intellectual landscape will look like in a hundred years (as well as tomorrow.)

This recent blog post on the future of the app is worth a read, and one project in particular called The Googlization of Everything got me lost in the internet for an hour. Issues of network neutrality, intellectual property and technology permeate the content on if:book’s blog as well as the projects that spurn from the institute’s many collaborations.

Check it out. Your brain will thank you.