Andy Warhol 1968

Tomato Soup Box 1964

Tomato Soup Can: Pencil on Paper 1962

These buttons can have a large history and background. They can be representative of an organization, company, group, culture, they present us with an identity not just of its wearer but the button itself. Badges were used in military to mark a ranking of an officer and often used to mark bravery and honor. They can come from anywhere around the world from Germany, China, Japan, India… they are a global phenomena and have been used in various situations from political to social events. They promoted sport stars, political figures and cigarettes.

Since the end of the 19th century when John Wesley Hyatt invented celluloid in 1869, it led to the invention of the Button Badge in 1896 by a New Jersey company called Whitehead but consisted of a cloth from. These pins were able to use less metal and did not require the need for soldiering or welding. These pressed metal plates with a pin in the back can be stuck on many items of cloth from our shirts, jackets, hats, bags and more. The IISH has a collection of over 5,000 historical buttons. With the popularization of buttons, websites can contain over 15,000 different available buttons to choose from.

During the 1960s and 1970s, these badges were worn by students and hippies in the form of protest. Protesting against Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Love, and Psychedelics. John Lennon loved the 1″ button and became popular from that period onward. Starting in 1976, the Sex Pistols made this a fashion statement trying to fit as many buttons possible onto the jacket. People wore buttons to confirm their loyalty to a particular band, music or youth group.

Today, political buttons, badges or symbols are not allowed on the day of an election. One cannot buy, sell, give, provide or wear a political badge at the polls on any election day.

References

• Handcraft Strikes Back: Buttons, Badges, Pins and Clips by Vitaly Friedman
• Buttons and Pins on IISH
• A History of Buttons, Pins and Badges!
• History on Custom Button Badges
• The History of Button Badges on Article Base
• The History of Button Badges by Louis Bruce
• Google Button Badge Timeline

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It’s funny, when designers try to represent the future with a digital looking typeface. We go and represent it with some cold, sterile, 8-bit looking font or better yet the LCD typeface. How many more lame braille looking fonts will we have to endure, telling us that, that is how the future of type will look like. Or worse, when we see it, we accept that this is our future. Maybe we will lose an entire understanding of type so therefore we just drop type all together and go blind.

If you’re looking to represent the future, you might as well use an Asian character set like Chinese. Get over the shock that you might have to learn another language and accept that Chinese will be displayed across the entire spectrum of digital because of the direction the economy is going.

The next question is what does the future look like? Get out the crystal ball and ask yourself…. will the city of manhattan be taken over by zombies infected by a serious case of herpes. Or did the world get hit by WW3 suffering from fallout? In which case, all typefaces suffer from a halt in technology.

Or perhaps, flying cars, talking robots where the world has gotten seriously lazy, stupid and fat. Like the present on steriods, but attacked by a serious case of commercialism. Below, it looks like Circle K, Dunkin’ Donuts and Toys ‘R’ Us has had their way with the future of type and now everything looks like we walked into a world of Hello Kitty.

What is the future font? There are many who see the future of type having a more dynamic functionality embedded within its system. I can see that happening, but will the style of the font change for the better or for the worse?

The creation of music, comes pre-built with the visual of the musician performing the instrument. The musician can perform solo, in groups consisting of duets, bands and to great orchestras. At some point, the audience grows tired of watching this purest form of music. However, the music is still good and it entertains our listening senses, but we have our sense of sight left unattended. We attend to these needs to keep the listener listening, to keep our audience entertained, to enhance the music with visuals and vice versa, to also enhance the visual with music.

The various ways we have learned to deal with the Audio/ Visual component comes in many various forms:

The Soundtrack

Since the beginning of theatre and films, the Soundtrack enhances the story of what is on stage or on screen. It has evolved from a live performance that worked in conjunction with the act, play or silent film to being embedded with the film itself. This level of music was used to enhance the visual. The visual was the story, which no good movie is good without a good story. This type of music enhancing the visual will find itself in movies, television shows and even commercial advertising.

The Music Video

The music video is much different than visualization seen in movies. Here there is no linear story being scripted, but a visualization is adapted to the music instead. A story, or supporting visuals can be used to enhance this music to take the audience to areas outside their own imagination.

The Others

The audience has seen the movie and the music video. A new generation of Music Visualization emerges on screen, visuals that move to the beat of music. These can be purely computer generated like those in your iTunes. They may not always tell a story, but they dance to the rhythm, moving the mind to see different beats in the stream of the music. We are dazzled by its artistic creation to express rhythm and sound and converting them into color, shapes, size, material.

Nobody Beats The Drum – Grindin’ from nobody beats the drum on Vimeo.

Now that we’ve dealt with sight and sound, the human sense of touch is often neglected. New environments are created to allow people to interact with them to create music as well as organize a huge amount of data that surrounds it. Dealing with many aspects of new technologies and software. Here are some noted ones to mention:

• http://thesis.flyingpudding.com
• http://www.apple.com/itunes
• http://www.scratchlive.net/scratchlive/2

If you have any great music visualizations you would like to share with everyone, please share it here. This document is still a work in progress.

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