Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
What caught my eye as a designer, as with most industrial plants and control rooms of that time, besides the knobs, levers, and buttons, was the use of a very specific seafoam green on the reactor’s walls and in the control panel room. Thus began my day-long search, traipsing through the internet for historical information about this specific shade of seafoam green. Thankfully, this path led me to the work of color theorist Faber Birren.
The Vault Of The Atomic Space Age
Art,fashion,design,technology etc from the atomic space age
CONTROL ROOMS | Flickr
the control rooms of nuclear plants, tv-stations, studios, security, banks… just post them here.
The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces
This open access book provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the relevant literature on the legibility of different kinds of typefaces, which goes back over 140 years in the case of reading from paper and more than 50 years in the case of reading from screens. It describes the origins of serif and sans serif styles in ancient inscriptions, their adoption in modern printing techniques, and their legibility in different situations and in different populations of readers. It also examines recent research on the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces when used with internet browsers, smartphones and other hand-held devices.
An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests. Fungi enthusiasts are doing damage control
A rogue mushroom native to Asia is ripping through North American forests, after escaping from cultivation. As it runs riot, mushroom enthusiasts are rescuing the native fungi in its path.
Coldplay's Game of Thrones: The Musical (Full version)
Game of Thrones: The Musical. Coldplay and the cast of Game of Thrones join forces for the band's most important project yet: a musical for HBO’s Game of Thrones.
What the CIA’s “Queen of Torture” did next – New Statesman
Alfreda Bikowsky led the CIA unit that tortured suspected terrorists and caught Bin Laden. Now, she is a life coach
The Curious Case of Retro Demo Scene Graphics | datagubbe.se
The demo scene has a peculiar view on copyright. It roughly boils down to a system of effort – effort in ideas, effort in craft – where the scene polices itself and punishes sceners that steal outright from other sceners. Theft from the outside world, however, is often taken lightly – especially when it comes to graphics.
A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
And yet here it is, still functioning, still transmitting, still making discoveries in a region of space no spacecraft has ever reached before, almost half a century after it left Earth on a mission originally designed to last five years. Voyager 1 is, by any measure, the most improbable success story in the history of human exploration.
A file for the mattocks!? – Biblical Historical Context
I was recently looking for an example of a biblical passage that used to be translated one way, but, after an archaeological discovery, was translated a different way. Ideally the discovery would be well documented in the relevant journals, and its implications explained in technical commentaries. The search didn’t take long…