Data + Design Project

Pixelated Video Game Characters Enter the Real World

Monday 04.22.2013 , Posted by

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Remember that feeling you had every time your thumbs made Mario leap from the brick stairs and slide down the flag pole to complete a level? That’s kind of how this series by Víctor Somoza Benítez makes me feel. Much like the works of Aled Lewis, Somoza takes the pixelated characters from your favorite old school video games and inserts them into the non-pixelated real world. Somoza, who is also a photographer takes most of his pictures in Spain where he lives in Palma de Mallorca. [Read more...]

Visual Bits #397 > How It Was Back Then: A Vintage Era

Tuesday 03.12.2013 , Posted by

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Visual Bits #376> Oddly Vintage: Photographs & Ads

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Visual Bits #347 > A Love For Vintage

Monday 12.31.2012 , Posted by

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Visual Bits #300 > Kickin’ It Old School

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Visual Bits #230> Tic Tattoo Toe

Monday 07.09.2012 , Posted by



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Re-creating Kodak Moments

Monday 01.23.2012 , Posted by

We all have at least one special vintage photo from our past that brings a smile to our faces every time we look at it. Whether it’s the one your mother brings out to embarrass you when you introduce her to a new friend or the one you keep in a frame to remind you of a time of innocence and whimsy, [Read more...]

Levi’s Gremlin, With Seats Of The Pants

Tuesday 05.17.2011 , Posted by

Cars were so cool back in the 70′s that they had Levi’s jeans for interiors. In 1973 AMC made a Gremlin with the tough blue interior, which included orange stiching, brass rivets and the red levi logo. [Read more...]

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Documerica: The Photographs of Flip Schulke

Wednesday 11.17.2010 , Posted by

For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.

Flip Schulke documented everyday life in New Ulm, Minnesota and the Florida Keys during the 1970s. In both locations, Schulke focused on the retired and the lives they lead in these two very different locals. Additionally, while teaching at the University of Missouri’s Columbia School of Journalism, Schulke recruited several students to photograph New Ulm to supplement his own photographs.

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