It was a busy week last week, so Friday links have rolled over to Tuesday.
Lots of historical things this week. A brilliantly curated and annotated collection of movie title cards and trailers. A work of incredible devotion by Christian Annyas via @LukeScheybeler:
An early colour autochrome photograph of equally early airshows, via Claes Källarsson:
Some early photos of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Matt Webb says: “There’s something uncanny about these unstudied portraits of people taken before they got to be such presences in the world.”:
And another historical artefact from Steve Jobs on marketing, branding and values, this is why Steve is absolute #1 mind-gangster. Via O’Reilly radar / gnat:
In one of the stranger moments last week Durrell Bishop reminded us of Maggie Thatcher killing a multi-million pound British Airways branding project with a simple gesture:
3 Comments and Trackbacks
1. Tim said on 24 May 2011...
I admire how simple and how devastating Thatcher’s gesture was, but I still wish BA hadn’t cowed to the pressure. Those tail fins seemed so bold and so distinctive; removing that element of the brand just killed that whole new identity for me (not least because the flag version only really looked good on Concorde which was, after all, the flagship aircraft). I wonder what Jobs would have done..
2. Heiko Wengler said on 22 June 2011...
Re: Matt Webb says: “There’s something uncanny about these unstudied portraits of people taken before they got to be such presences in the world.”:
You REALLY mean that?
Steve Jobs wearing a “Next” Shirt = thats 1985+. Long after he got famous for Apple…
Greatings,
H. Wengler
3. Matt Webb said on 22 June 2011...
I do really mean that! Jobs before was a computer manufacturer – pre web, even, it was interesting but contained – and now, with Pixar/Disney and new Apple, he’s a centre of gravity across a very broad part of culture.