Online Ad Archives

On the cultural studies list a while back, someone posted a query about ad archives. Here are some of the ones people offered:

• The Gender Ads Project has 3,000 or so ads, all focused on issues of gender (http://www.genderads.com).
  
• At http://www.coudal.com, you'll find a link to the museum of on-line museums (http://www.coudal.com/moom.php), featuring links to various quirky
  collections.
  
• 70s ads for grownups:
  
  
  
  • mpgs (http://dt.prohosting.com/70s/video/video.html)
  • audio files (http://dt.prohosting.com/70s/adulttv/adulttv.html).
    
  
  
• The Wayback Machine and other Internet archives can be found at http://www.archive.org
  

InfoVis.net

Well, here's something I found by accident! It looks like an interesting site, with an e-zine that leads with an article about bar graphs. Net echoing life, once again.

http://www.infovis.net/index.php?lang=2

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Coverage of Karen Schriver's IRS 1040 Revision

http://www.jsonline.com/bym/your/apr04/222255.asp

When the FreeP Altered the Detroit Skyline

Here's the article that describes it, with a link that compares the original photograph with the altered one.

http://www.freep.com/news/locway/super10_20040210.htm

World Trade Center Coverage from NYT

This page includes some of the design ideas for rebuilding the site.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/index.html

Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness

This site includes instructional and technical visuals that the compiler thinks are weird. A lot of the weirdness comes from the captions added by the compiler.

http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/hall/

Landscapes of Capital

From the intro to the site:

This is a project about public, commercial representations of Global High-Tech Capital. We are interested in how space/time (speed), capital and globalization are represented in corporate television advertising.

http://it.stlawu.edu/%7Eglobal/pagesintro/scapehome.html"

Includes many TV ads in a keyword-searchable database.

The Ad*Access Project, at Duke University

This site is interesting for its searchable archive of historical print ads.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

Poynter.com

Poynter.com is a site for journalists, but I find it incredibly useful and generative.

http://www.poynter.org/.

I especially like the Design/Graphics and Photojournalism sections for their relevance to work that I do.

Just today, the main story in the Writing/Editing section is about using punctuation to control pace and space--how fast or slow a reader reads. This is relevant to the work I'm doing on editing functions in new media products.

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75398

Hurricane Cartoons (from Slate)

The following is a compilation of cartoons comemmorating the 2004 Florida Hurricanes.

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/HurricaneCharley/main.asp

Medical Illustrations

My interests seem all over the place. Here's my favorite site for inspiration concerning medical illustration. Heed the copyright agreement that comes up when you link to the Medical Illustration Sourcebook.

http://medical-illustrators.org/

A dictionary of information graphics

This site, although not designed so well, has some interesting examples on it.

http://cccw.adh.bton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/LInfDes.html

Information Design Sites

Nathan Shedroff's site http://www.nathan.com/

An online information design journal http://www.informationdesign.org/

AIGA's Design Forum http://designforum.aiga.org/
Check out their cross-cultural design link.

Online Tech Comm Handbook

Mayfield Publishing online tech comm handbook by Perelman, Paradis, and Barrett.

http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/tsw/home.htm

The link was posted on the ATTW-L e-mail list this morning by Leslie C. Perelman.

U of Iowa Visual Comm / Visual Rhets site

The University of Iowa's Department of Communication Studies hosts a set of visual rhetoric links. I was there looking for publication ideas for a paper on my grandma's family photographs.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/visual.html

Dana Lipp

Dana Lipp is a photographer who creates scientific images.

His site is at http://www.danalipp.us

Among my favorite images is this one, because of the way the words "In God we trust" and "Liberty" intervene in my ability to see the image as a "neutral" illustration.

http://www.danalipp.us/scientific/scientific%2011302.htm"

Introduction

I've been plagued by forgetfulness, by scattered bits of brilliance, by lost resources. A blog, I thought, would allow me conveniently to keep all those lost and scattered fragments in one place. Thus, I began. And my first post is a link to http://historywired.si.edu/index.html which is a nifty interface at the Smithsonian. At some point, I may say more. Right now, I just want to see whether and if so how this all works for me.