So there are coffee table books with beautiful photos of Braun equipment, Apple computers, collections of corporate brand standards, typeface specimens etc.
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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.
@mwichary Not exactly what you imagined, it's video games again, but I can mention that my son has a rather attractive art book, a little smaller than coffee table size, called “Credit 00: I Love Game Graphics.” Software screens and logotypes adjoin promotional and hardware materials throughout.
IA owns a copy: https://archive.org/details/credit00ilovegam0000unse/page/n3/mode/2up
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In my head, I can see a beautiful 17"x11" spread with a hypothetical Windows 3.11 CRT that’s 3000x2000 and it has a lot of windows, icons, Minesweeper, the goods. Especially the later “platinum” Windows 3.11 appearance.
You know? Stuff like that.
Early skeuomorphic iOS, early webOS, various Mac things of course, BeOS, the later Norton Utilities aesthetic, XCopy on the Amiga! TOS was always so elegant. And some lesser-known things. Newton?
@mwichary I’m just saying: GUIdebook Book
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In my head, I can see a beautiful 17"x11" spread with a hypothetical Windows 3.11 CRT that’s 3000x2000 and it has a lot of windows, icons, Minesweeper, the goods. Especially the later “platinum” Windows 3.11 appearance.
You know? Stuff like that.
Early skeuomorphic iOS, early webOS, various Mac things of course, BeOS, the later Norton Utilities aesthetic, XCopy on the Amiga! TOS was always so elegant. And some lesser-known things. Newton?
Early NeXT, obviously (a bit Unixy, but has some elegance)! Magic Cap?
There are probably some more strange and beautiful text-only DOS apps. Some particularly memorable semigraphics.
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Early NeXT, obviously (a bit Unixy, but has some elegance)! Magic Cap?
There are probably some more strange and beautiful text-only DOS apps. Some particularly memorable semigraphics.
@mwichary palm
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@mwichary I’m just saying: GUIdebook Book
@dokas Seems like it!
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@Screwtapello Yeah, @nina_kali_nina was just exploring one of them. That’d be a goldmine!
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Early NeXT, obviously (a bit Unixy, but has some elegance)! Magic Cap?
There are probably some more strange and beautiful text-only DOS apps. Some particularly memorable semigraphics.
I think Psion was very nice, too.
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I was just looking at Scala on Amiga and look how beautiful!
(Source + kudos to Stone Tools: https://stonetools.ghost.io/scala-amiga)
@mwichary I remember using MM200 on PC, for song words at a church of all things
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Early NeXT, obviously (a bit Unixy, but has some elegance)! Magic Cap?
There are probably some more strange and beautiful text-only DOS apps. Some particularly memorable semigraphics.
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In my head, I can see a beautiful 17"x11" spread with a hypothetical Windows 3.11 CRT that’s 3000x2000 and it has a lot of windows, icons, Minesweeper, the goods. Especially the later “platinum” Windows 3.11 appearance.
You know? Stuff like that.
Early skeuomorphic iOS, early webOS, various Mac things of course, BeOS, the later Norton Utilities aesthetic, XCopy on the Amiga! TOS was always so elegant. And some lesser-known things. Newton?
@mwichary any Breadbox Ensemble love?
http://toastytech.com/guis/bbe.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(16-bit_operating_system)
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I think Psion was very nice, too.
I mean look at this stuff!
This, or IBM 2260 also had this wild-looking font.
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@mwichary any Breadbox Ensemble love?
http://toastytech.com/guis/bbe.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(16-bit_operating_system)
@colinstu I’m vibing more with early GEOS – I think the later you go the uglier it gets…
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I mean look at this stuff!
This, or IBM 2260 also had this wild-looking font.
@mwichary vectors!
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I mean look at this stuff!
This, or IBM 2260 also had this wild-looking font.
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Early NeXT, obviously (a bit Unixy, but has some elegance)! Magic Cap?
There are probably some more strange and beautiful text-only DOS apps. Some particularly memorable semigraphics.
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@mwichary depending on the flavor of the book there may be a page or two dedicated to Kai's Power Tools (Bryce3D in particular sticks strongly in my mind)
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@ranjit Wow! TIL
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@SnoopJ Very WarGames
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I mean look at this stuff!
This, or IBM 2260 also had this wild-looking font.
Reminds me of the Tektronix 4010s and 4014s we used to use. Vectors and persistent phosphor for the win.
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I mean look at this stuff!
This, or IBM 2260 also had this wild-looking font.
Some of these are stark but maybe kinda beautiful – especially if you pair them with some of the nicer PC fonts?
