2013-01-09
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LU150 commemorative Oyster card, available for a limited time only. (Thanks to version3point1 for sending me one for Christmas.)
Previously: Oyster cover variants, 2003-2012.
2012-12-25
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“Christmastime in the City” by Danne Design, 1959, from the AIGA Design Archives.
2012-10-27
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Action cards from The London Game, designed to be played around the capital’s underground network (at things)
The page with all the cards is well worth a look.
2012-04-28
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EIA Linearity Chart, 1961. An explanation from the no-frills technical links page:
In the 1970s, if your color cameras had registration problems, the ball chart would show them to you. You see, the cameras had separate tubes for red, green and blue (RGB). After the RGB signals go through the NTSC encoder, and sync is added, it is then called composite video. If you point your Norelco PC-70 at this chart and the black circles have rainbows around the edges, you need to twist some knobs to get the red, green and blue pictures to coincide.
2012-01-31
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Card folder reads “Do not remove or mutilate card.” Card removed (and potentially mutilated).
From the back matter of The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs (1921).
2012-01-27
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From the series A Tale of Obsession: David C. Nolan and Marilyn Monroe, by Jacinda Russell, June 2011.
