Hard Hats
design history
Helmets are almost as old as heads and as hard as heads too. They are also as fascinating as they are menacing.
The Assyrians and Persians had helmets of leather and iron, and the Greeks made theirs from bronze. The Romans developed the round legionary’s helmet and the special gladiator’s helmet, with broad brim and pierced visor. Protection was the first goal, but the design was supposed to instill fear.
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An excerpt from The Daily Heller
design history
Max Fleischer Studios was famous for Betty Boop, Bimbo, and Koko the Clown, as well as Popeyecartoons, but it was also responsible for movie singalongs, the precursor to today’s dread karaoke. In between motion pictures, the house organist would play a popular song of the day and the audience would be encouraged to raise their voices high. If they didn’t know the words, they would be projected onscreen from slides. But sometime between 1924 and 1925, Fleischer Studios put the words on film (see below). To further aid the audience, a ball bounced over the words and with that, the “Song Car-Tune” was born and Americans began to “follow the bouncing ball.”
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The diversity in paper
design history
Have you ever thought about the diversity in paper? From paper towels and toilet tissue to wrapping paper and newspaper, paper comes in so many varieties. Then there is the paper you received your neice’s wedding invitation on and the annual report you just received in the mail and the paper box and the paper bag and... Paper is so diverse it effects all of our daily lives.
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