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Marcin Wichary
Marcin Wichary
@mwichary@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

So there are coffee table books with beautiful photos of Braun equipment, Apple computers, collections of corporate brand standards, typeface specimens etc.

But outside of some nostalgic video game coffee table books, have their ever been coffee table books showing primarily software? Graphical user interfaces or apps?

The closest I can think of is the macOS/iOS app icon book (by Michael Flarup), but that’s specific to icons.

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Scott Jenson
Scott Jenson
@scottjenson@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@mwichary no! I'd love to see a book like this. There was so much experimentation in the late 80s that people no longer remember

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Marcin Wichary
Marcin Wichary
@mwichary@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@scottjenson I’d love to see a celebration of more utilitarian kind of stuff. The most beautiful DOS apps, for example. Or particularly nice early Mac apps before the conventions solidified.

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