Have you ever been curious about when or how the smartphone came to be? Most of us depend so much on our smartphone but never really asked about how it started out. But if you’re not into digging into the history of cell phones or smartphones, maybe this detailed infographic by Waypharer.com can help you skip through the hard work and shed some light on the subject...
We often get asked for a logo design that can stand the test of time. Something that will last forever. I mean, we look at all these “Mega Corporates” and their logos never change. Do they? Well, actually and surprisingly, they do….a lot.
This illustration depicts some of the biggest global brands and highlights the evolution of their logos from humble beginnings to the present day. It might strike you how some of the designs started out looking like their biggest rivals and others appear to of hardly changed at all. Timeless is certainly not the overriding characteristic of most of these early creations.
Thanks to our technological advancements, the world is quickly changing. The following infographic take a look at things that we used to do in the past.
Remember Blockbuster? Video streaming at that point and time was so alien to us. Look where were it’s at now…
What about the Motorola Razr flip phones? They used to be kind of like iPhones in the flip phone market.
What about burning CD’s for your car or friends? Now everything is almost digital.
What’s the last time you hand-wrote a letter? I know I can’t remember, using email is so much easier and faster.
“Take a journey with us, if you will, back in time to see how one of the most important cities in the world has evolved. Evan Joseph, one of New York’s leading photographers of architecture, had previously given as an incredible birds eye view of New York City at night by precariously dangling out of a tiny helicopter. He’s now back with a new book called New York Then and Now. Not yet released to the public, this is your sneak peek.”
A revealing video from the Nixon family about Mitt Romney's history and personal views.
The web is a wonderful place. It connects people from across the globe, keeps us updated with our friends and family, and creates revolutions never before seen in our lifetime. It has certainly come a long way since its humble beginnings back in the early 1980′s..
Art is an incredible thing that has origins long before humans could even communicate with words on paper and still spoke in grunts and and mumbles. Art began well before time was even being recorded with the first known sculpture being the ever famous Venus of Willendorf dating back to 24,000 BCE.Art was one of the first ways that people used to express themselves and get a message across. It is a huge reason that we know as much about ancient civilizations and cultures as we do.
The 2000s were a great decade for technology. We are still seeing influences from this recent time period today.
In case you don't remember, here are 10 pieces of tech that changed everything by making our lives easier and more enjoyable.
The 2012 London Olympics are just round the corner. Officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad, London Olympics is going to start from 27th July and ends on 12th August 2012. London Olympics is also being touted by many as the first “Social Games”. While many people around the world might get inspired by performances of many athletes, it is now time for the designers all around the world to start getting inspired by the way Olympics is utilizing Graphic Design to get all the attention. There are various elements through which the designers could get inspiration from Olympics like the Olympic posters to banners to Olympic logos and mascots.
Web design has changed dramatically since Tim Berners-Lee created the first HTML website in 1991. WestHost used “The History of Web Design” to blueprint the start of it all and even offer a future forecast of web design to spark interest and trigger more site traffic.
"Microsoft is not a hardware company." How many times have you heard this or read this? I'm guessing more than once. It's a simple lie we keep telling ourselves despite the underlying truth: Microsoft has been designing and selling hardware products for 32 out of its 37 years in business. And hardware has been a consistently successful venture too, even in the early days. (Little-known fact: Between 1983 and 1986, sales of Microsoft mice (in units shipped) matched those of the company's software products!)
It feels like it was just yesterday when we had to wait an eternity for our dial-up modems to log us on to the Internet.
The lengthy wait to sign-on was always worth it, though, because AOL always made us feel "Welcome" once our 56k modems made the connection.
This feeling of nostalgia hit us after we stumbled upon the Museum of Endangered Sounds, a website which features sounds made by "old technologies and electronics equipment."
Inspired by the museum's mission to preserve these "endangered sounds," we decided to come up with our own list of sounds that we've come to miss.
Thirty years, 135 launches. Filmmaker and artist McLean Fahnestock gives the NASA Space Shuttle program a proper send-off with a four-minute clip showing every launch at once.
As web designers, we know that HTML5 is quickly becoming the new standard for cutting-edge web design. But a lot of us, especially design-only designers may not be fully aware of what HTML5 is truly capable of, as well as what its limitations are.
Dotcominfoway has just published this handy infographic explaining the ins and outs of HTML5, so study and enjoy!
“The Winton Motor Carriage Company was one of the first American companies to sell a motor car. On March 24, 1898 Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania became the first person to buy a Winton automobile after seeing the first automobile advertisement in Scientific American.”
The foundational phone—Alexander Graham Bell’s “speaking telephone,” exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia—was less a product than a lab experiment in a box: A needle transmitting, via sulfuric acid, the vibrations of the voice to an electromagnetic receiver. Apart from looking of its age—you catch a whiff of Victorian steampunk here—there’s little to indicate what it does (Bell’s own patent referred to “improvements in telegraphy”). The flared tubular column could be a speaking tube, or it could be the megaphone of some new-fangled Victrola.
The world's most famous inventors are household names. As we all know, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone, and Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
Except they didn't. The ideas didn't spring, Athena-like, fully formed from their brains. In fact, they didn't spring fully formed from anybody's brains. That is the myth of the lonely inventor and the eureka moment.
"Simultaneous invention and incremental improvement are the way innovation works, even for radical inventions," Mark A. Lemley writes in his fascinating paper The Myth of the Sole Inventor. Lemley's paper concentrates on the history and problems of patents. But he also chronicles the history of the 19th and 20th century's most famous inventors -- with an emphasis on how their inventions were really neither theirs, nor inventions. Here is a super-quick summary of his wonderful distillation of the last 200 years in collaborative innovation.
There's a reason you shouldn't believe everything you hear.
Through the decades, many facts about history have been exaggerated, distorted or just made up.
Now, we're putting some of the most popular misconceptions to bed.
As the Olympics has grown and modernized over the years, many events have fallen by the wayside. While many are unmourned — does anyone miss club swinging? — others could easily return to the program. Here are the top 10 events that would be exciting to resurrect. (Hat tip to “The Complete Book of the Olympics” and Sports Reference’s Olympics section for much of the history below.)
