Category: history
‘Back to the Past’
Over the past 30 years, designer, writer, and researcher Bill Buxton has been collecting input and interactive devices whose design struck him as interesting, useful, or important. In the process, he has assembled a good collection of the history of pen computing, pointing devices, touch technologies, as well as an illustration of the nature of how new technologies emerge.
space shuttle infographic
Sizing Up Space: A Visual History (ads)
In the three decades of NASA’s space shuttle program, hundreds of astronauts flew aboard the five spaceships. Find out about the missions, astronauts and vehicles and life in space.
a ‘2 minute journey’
35mm from Felix Meyer on Vimeo.
(See author’s site)
‘primer and reference tool’
Design Is History – “A collection of information intended to be used as a primer and a reference tool in relation to the history of graphic design.” [Bifurcated Rivets]