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Plus, the Spielberg face and 40s-era 'humor'

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Adam Rowe

07 Apr 2020 • 2 min read

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Computer Plant Life

Computer Plant Life

"Thе Commodore РЕТ offers you а safe passage through the primeval swamр of computerization," says the ad copy accompanying this uncredited illustration in a June 1981 issue of Personal Computer World: That image and ad copy offers a perfect example of how most retro tech illustration works: Visualize
29 Sep 2025 6 min read
Childcraft's How and Why Library

Childcraft's How and Why Library

Much like the door-to-door salespeople who sold them, encyclopedia sets have been largely killed off by the internet. Perhaps they'll make a comeback once we hit a critical mass of AI hallucinations. The encyclopedia business was booming across the 20th century, enough so that the publishers of the
22 Sep 2025 5 min read
Saturn and Other Planetary Rings

Saturn and Other Planetary Rings

Saturn might be the most well-represented planet in science fiction art. Sure, Mars is tough competition, but it doesn't have bling. One common way to illustrate Saturn was to showcase the planet as if seen from the surface of its largest moon, Titan. Some examples: Here's
15 Sep 2025 6 min read
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