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In 2007, Max Headroom came out of retirement to advertise digital tv (above).

And
Here’s a couple of the shorter spots:

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‘You’re looking at the future  . . .  people translated as data’

The visionary Max Headroom series premiered on American television March, 1987.

It was just weird enough to not last too long on network TV. It did make some predictions about the future  . . . [Read more →]

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Part 1

George Stone, Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton went on to create 1980s icon Max Headroom – performed by (oft underrated actor/comedian) Matt Frewer.

This is the original British-made cyberpunk television movie, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985). In a world dominated by corporate-run television empires, reporter Edison Carter develops a digital alter-ego.

Wow, I sounded just like TV Guide.

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NBC was cool once.

In the 1980s, not everyone had MTV. Our (small) cable company didn’t.

The only broadcast alternative for music videos was NBC’s Friday Night Videos, which aired after Johnny Carson.

Above, the Emmy-winning title graphics by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton (more on them in a post tomorrow).

And here’s most of the videos from the above show (minus Prince and Morris Day; not readily embeddable). With some vintage closing credits and more at the end  . . . .

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Procrastination by Johnny Kelly.

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New single. Available here.

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The work of Hyunju Kim.

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Oded Ezer gave a talk last Friday at the London College of Communication. He sported a ‘humble homage to the British 70-80s Punk movement: the Typo-mohawk.’

More photos here.

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‘Two sets of 27 silkscreen prints based on the A-Z reproduced from photographs taken by Inez Van Lamswwerde and Vinoodh Matadin’

Here’s the Alphamen [male]. And here’s the Alphabet [female].

Designed by Paris-based studio, m/m.

Found via HelloTypo

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Found via Deanna Russo

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One more by Jim Tierney.

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