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"Discover the Unknown Spreaders!," 28 x 39cm print, National Tuburculosis Association, United States, c.1940, from the exhibition An Iconography of Contagion, US National Library of Medicine, February 2010 :: via MetaFilter
The National Institutes of Health has an online exhibition of 20th century health posters from various countries, key-coded by different common visual motifs (hands, mouths, skulls, rodents, sinister blobs). Many of the posters present an odd mix of informativeness and fear-mongering; quite a few traffic in stereotypes of disease and contagion (and diseased/contagious people) that read uneasily in the present day. This anti-TB admonition is one of the cheerier examples.
Nate:
from "A clock for identity designers," by Tanner Woodford, fill/stroke.com , 15 December 2008 :: via Brand New
Designer Tanner Woodford, inspired by
this brand-timeline self-portrait made a time-based list of every brand and logo he encountered over 24 hours, and then arranged them all clock-wise (well, 24-hour-clock-wise). I'd love to see mockups for brands encountered by people in different places and times. I expect, for instance, that the clock of a 19th-century city-dweller might well be just about as full. A Renaissance nobleman's would be full of heraldry and religious iconography. But would a medieval peasant (assuming he lived far away from town or church) have anything for the face of his anachronistic clock?
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