IBM Slides: 1975
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Stuart Dixon sent in these slides from a 1975 IBM presentation. They’re posted in a collection featured at Square America; the only information listed is the tagline at the top:
"It’s 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future (Scenes From An IBM Slide Presentation)"
Have a browse through the rest of the collection, there are some really nice slides in there. I particularly like the information design examples like the last image pictured above. As far as I can tell much of it is set in Helvetica, but there seem to be a couple other faces floating around in there. The segmented slide (4th one down from top) would be great as a massive wall hanging. Someone needs to email Square America and see if we can get hi-res versions of these; many would make great posters.
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July 25th, 2008 at 5:23 am
nice style
July 25th, 2008 at 6:44 am
These are from 1975?! Man, PowerPoint really killed the art of slides, didn’t it? I don’t think presentations have gotten back up to this point, aside from Steve Jobs’ keynote speeches.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Those are damn sexy. I agree, Powerpoint killed the art- and yes, Steve Job’s are good.
I feel like Apple’s Keynote software is a pretty good for making halfway decent slides. The latest version of Powerpoint of Mac is way to clunky to make anything look decent.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:50 am
desktop publishing killed the art of publishing. the moment that ted from sales was able to create the sales slideshow, ted from sales starting creating the sales slideshows. Also, putting pretty much anything on film makes it look a whole heck of a lot better.
keynote is pretty slick, even without the t-neck.
July 25th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
IBM seemed very keen on good design back then. they commisioned charles and ray eames to make math based, informational, short videos for them: IBM mathematica peep shows.
July 26th, 2008 at 6:34 am
[...] that we see today.” A apresentação completa pode ser vista aqui e Scott Hansen trouxe a [...]
July 26th, 2008 at 8:04 am
[...] found this on marktd, who spotted it on the ISO50 blog. There are a bunch more on Square America. Posted by francisanderson Filed in [...]
July 26th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Bolder starts now… WOOOOOOOW that one is really nice!
July 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am
I like how the guy’s hair flips sides. I guess people weren’t that observant/picky in the times before imdb.com’s Goofs section.
July 26th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Awesome!
@brockman: any hints where to watch them. just found http://everyt...ep%2520Shows
July 27th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
[...] were you doing in 1975? The ISO50 blog, aka – The visual World of Scott Hansen – has displayed some great slides from a 1975 IBM [...]
July 27th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Elvin: LOL! They’re SLIDES. They’re analogue – bits of film mounted in plastic frames that were put in a slide projector to show.
So if you turn it round the wrong way before you scan it to show it on your blog… the guy’s hair flips!
July 28th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Aleksandra: Err.. I don’t think anyone actually thought IBM had invented the flippable hairpiece as well
In addition to scanning of the slides/film they may have been flipped intentionally when made, that happenes in films all the time and was what I tried to point out. But thanks.
September 6th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
[...] Presentations Through Storytelling A apresentação completa pode ser vista aqui e Scott Hansen trouxe a [...]
December 28th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Да, было бы смешно, если б не было так грустно …
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December 18th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
[...] A few slides from an IBM presentation in 1975 have surfaced. I first came across them at ISO50. [...]
January 20th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
[...] to kill good slide design – and remembered seeing these posted on Scott Hansen’s Blog ISO50 a while back. They were originally posted at Square America with the heading “It’s 1975 And [...]
January 21st, 2010 at 10:55 am
This guy http://www.sq...es5/ib49.jpg reminds me of Slugworth from the original Willy Wonka.
February 26th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
This reminds me of the opening credits from Billion Dollar Brian –
Michael Caine in horn-rimmed glasses surrounded by computers and chicks:
On youtube:
http://www.yo...ture=related