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Rediscovering The Great Outdoors . . . And My Own Library

by J. J. Sedelmaier December 5, 2011

While researching an article I’m doing for an upcoming subject on 1920s posters, I pulled several books off my shelf to leaf through hoping to find some supplemental material. One of the volumes I grabbed was “Outdoor Advertising” by Wilmot Lippincott published by the McGraw-Hill Company in 1923. A relatively unassuming looking book from the [...]

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Billboard as Augmented Reality

by Steven Heller July 8, 2010

It was early in the morning, my come-hither brown eyes not yet accustomed to the dawn light, when I saw torrents of water pouring from building windows just north of 23rd Street in New York (top). Was it a catastrophic water main break? The end of the world as we know it? Or a Ray [...]

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