Design Journal Online

November 17, 2005 9:16 AM

Design Online- a team from the London College of Communication have scanned and indexed all the issues of Design from 1965 - 1974 (via the Design Weblog, which says: "I believe you really need to see and understand the past in order to blaze a new trail").
posted by tpl1212 (13 comments total)

Hoorah for the commons!
posted by Popular Ethics at 9:22 AM on November 17, 2005

Nice. Thanks a bunch.
posted by safetyfork at 9:24 AM on November 17, 2005

Overwhelming and very cool. Thanks. Who knew there'd be an article on pipeline bouys?
posted by OmieWise at 9:26 AM on November 17, 2005

Well I know what I'm doing this afternoon.
posted by iconomy at 9:29 AM on November 17, 2005

Airbrush King. Awesome.
posted by grabbingsand at 10:27 AM on November 17, 2005

This is excellent. Thanks :)
posted by bullitt 5 at 10:31 AM on November 17, 2005

Awesomeness. I just wish navigating the content management system (CMS) wasn't so... archaic.
posted by nofi at 11:57 AM on November 17, 2005

Awesome resource, thank you.
posted by btwillig at 11:57 AM on November 17, 2005

oh, fabulous. thank you! there goes my day. :)
posted by piranha at 12:23 PM on November 17, 2005

Many thanks, tpl1212.
posted by mania at 12:24 PM on November 17, 2005

Wow. This has just killed any chance of me getting anything productive done today. Thanks.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 2:06 PM on November 17, 2005

Wow -- these things are amazingly, amazingly ahead of their time. Except for the title (and the date) this table of contents from 1965 could have been designed this year.
posted by Tlogmer at 2:08 PM on November 17, 2005

Beautiful.

Been trying to pull off an identically comprehensive online archival effort with the backcatalogue of The Face magazine, but withdrew it from online circulation out of terror over intellectual property lawsuit potential...

It's about time things like this started appearing - although, must admit, the interface and reproduction could be much better...
posted by objet at 5:53 PM on November 17, 2005