Art was science. Look at the gorgeous color. The fabric is like a thin canvas. Metal rails top and bottom. Its going on my wall. … After I figure out how to safely mount it.
I couldn’t find that version digitally, but looks like this one is a bit newer. I like yours better though with the pictures.
Yup. That ia cool.
ugh
Clearly it reads “USA”!
UGH
The new All-Might catchphrase isn’t doing it for me.
You have that in svg?
I have it in IRL.
Look at that subtle off-white coloring.
You should get that scanned in high-res for posterity. Look for a reprographics shop nearby. Hell, if you can find a place that does quality work, you can sell prints on Etsy.
The material looks like what we called “vellum” and was a common way to print on longer lasting material, a sort of translucent plastic. Is that what it is?
Its not vellum. Think back to science class. The fancy roll up maps and charts. That fabric stuff. Not quite as heavy as the big world maps tho.
You’ve made a solid suggestion there. If I did sell it in any way, I’d probly recoup my costs and then release it under some free license.
41" x 28". There’s all sorts of detail. It was for nerds of the radio age. The prior owner was a hacker of his day, a radar tech, ham radio operator, and dangerously careless electrician. Much respect to him and his service.
What a glorious piece of history. Very cool!
This is glorious!
I’m a physicist working with lasers, and my grandfather worked for Westinghouse back in the day; I hope I can find one of these someday, too.
There are a couple copies for sale. About $150 online. Etsy, ebay. This one means a bit to me personally as well.
This looks like an assload of work to design and get to print nicely back in the day
People used to learn those skills by apprenticing, and also art and design schools. Some of the people that did this work had amazing hand skills, even when they were about to retire, when I was just entering that field.
Some of the older folks here took Drafting classes in high school. I had all the tools it took to do this, but not a shred of the skill. A drafter was like a junior engineer. A whole career path that no longer exists.
I’m one of those. I took drafting 1 in high school including vellum blueprints and later autocad. But I was more interested in design and ended up in the art department.
Photoshop 3 had just come out annd introduced layers, we had 2 Macs in the back of the classroom, but in school we still had a phototypesetter, knives, airbrushes, and rubber cement.
That’s why I shared it. Just printing it would have taken the finest gear. I figured this community would see the beauty in science … and how much we used to treasure it. An assload of work indeed.
