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Mask layers for early integrated circuit designs were hand cut out of Rubylith masking film for photographic reduction.

Image: Top - Operators hand cutting circuit designs out of Rubylith film. Bottom - Detail view of the Rubylith design.

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György Kepes founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in 1967.

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Beginning in 1965, Alexander Girard designed over 17,000 items for Braniff International Airways.

Image: Girard’s “Braniff Dove Logo” was among the thousands of items he designed which also included furniture, dishes and even playing cards.

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Introduced in 1975, IKARUS became the de facto font editing software used to digitize film-type libraries of the time.

IKARUS was created by Peter Karow for German based Rudolph Weber company (now URW) and originally written in FORTRAN.

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Early American hobos developed a set of symbols, often written in chalk or coal, to inform or warn their fellow hobos.

Image: Examples of symbols found in the hobo code.

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