Home computers: 100 icons that defined a digital generation - Rilegato

Wiltshire, Alex

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ISBN 10: 050002216X ISBN 13: 9780500022160

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2020

Riassunto

Showcases the quirky and characterful beginnings of a commercial product that would come to unite the globe: the personal computer

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Informazioni sugli autori

Alex Wiltshire is a writer and consultant for videogames, design and technology. He is the author of the bestselling book Minecraft Blockopedia, and the editor of Britsoft: An Oral History. Previously editor of Edge, he has also written for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, PC Gamer and Eurogamer.

John Short is best known for his still life, interiors and landscapes. His work is regularly published in Wallpaper*.

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It is all too easy to forget, as we go through life with computers in our pockets, that the digital revolution started at home. Home Computers showcases the quirky and characterful beginnings of a commercial product that would come to unite the globe: the personal computer. As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of industrial design and techno-utopianism from the not-so-distant past. Conceived as a visual sourcebook of the most popular, most powerful and most idiosyncratic computers to grace our workspaces, this timely publication offers a reflection on how far we've come and a nostalgic look at a time when digital worlds could be contained in a box and turned off, rather than everpresent in our lives.
Home Computers opens with a scene-setting retrospective by computer and gaming writer Alex Wiltshire. The book's heart is a series of commissioned photographs that capture details of early user-interface design, letterforms and logos. Images are enlivened by a potted history of each device, the inventors or personalities behind it, and its innovations and influences. These wonderful machines offered a bridge from the analogue to the digital. As such, we would do well to reflect on, and celebrate, the profound changes they have brought.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• ISBN 10: 050002216X
• ISBN 13: 9780500022160
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile