{"id":1026,"date":"2011-02-02T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T11:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2013-09-16T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T13:17:34","slug":"futuristic-space-age-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2011\/02\/02\/futuristic-space-age-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Futuristic, Space-Age Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of our readers probably know, I am a big fan of vintage advertising.\u00a0 The colors, the design, the marketing-speak, the shiny happy people&#8230;.\u00a0 This ad is from 1970 and features the &#8220;complete bedside entertainment center&#8221;, elegantly named the <strong>Longines Symphonette FM\/AM Digital Clock Lamp-Radio<\/strong>.\u00a0 While we chuckle at this technological relic, it was no doubt one seriously hot radio\/clock\/lamp amalgamation in its heyday.\u00a0 One thing I get motivated to do when looking (&amp; laughing) at old technology is to imagine the future and where technological evolution (or, really, revolution) will take us.\u00a0 Will we look back, 40 years hence, and laugh at the Ipad or will it be viewed more as an artifact of our material culture?\u00a0 My vote is for &#8220;artifact&#8221;, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I won&#8217;t laugh at the ads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-future-design-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1024\" title=\"Clock Radio Light\" alt=\"Clock Radio Light\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2011\/02\/ClockRadioLight-1024x960.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-future-design-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1025\" title=\"Clock Radio Light\" alt=\"Clock Radio Light\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2011\/02\/ClockRadioLight2-656x1024.jpg\" width=\"473\" height=\"737\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of our readers probably know, I am a big fan of vintage advertising.\u00a0 The colors, the design, the marketing-speak, the shiny happy people&#8230;.\u00a0 This ad is from 1970 and features the &#8220;complete bedside entertainment center&#8221;, elegantly named the Longines Symphonette FM\/AM Digital Clock Lamp-Radio.\u00a0 While we chuckle at this technological relic, it was&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2011\/02\/02\/futuristic-space-age-design\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4922],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-special-collections","7":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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