having fun documenting the mid- #90s and early #2000s interactive #multimedia #design movement
today's archival project is the companion #cdrom for the book "In Your Face: The Best of Interactive interface Design". it is full of dozens of #macromedia Director projectors highlighting award-winning websites, cd-roms, floppies and kiosks of the era.
most of the designs are fun, goofy and tactile
if you're feeling wistful for #skeuomorphic design, this is the cheapest time travel device money can buy 😅
disc image here - windows/mac:
https://archive.org/details/in_your_face_disc
@MossRC myself as well. ideally i'd love to write a history of macromedia director some day - it gets far too little credit!
At one point several years ago I actually thought about doing a history book on the golden age of multimedia; I eventually decided I wasn't the right person to write it.
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@MossRC i'm a lot more interested in the folks who used the software to build multimedia projects. unfortunately, it's just too large of a territory to cover in a single book. managed to get a hold of one of the former Mackerel guys recently, and that history alone is worth retelling.
@MossRC ah haaa... i didn't realize they were behind xplora1 and had other projects! e.g. Ceremony of Innocence - i'm excited to try this out
@vga256 cool! I and @steveriggins probably worked on some of these at Voyager Co.
@octothorpe @steveriggins wild! were these Voyager Expanded books or the multimedia/doc CDs?
@vga256 @steveriggins mostly the latter. Hard Days Night, Painters Painting, Maus, Dazzleoids, etc. It’s been like 30 years, so I’m a little fuzzy.
@octothorpe @steveriggins incredible. those were standout titles in the 90s - Hard Days Night especially! Dazzleoids is news to me - looking forward to checking it out
did you ever work with colin holgate? had the opportunity to interview him about VEBs last year.
@vga256 @octothorpe Colin Holgate did Hard Days Night. I (along with a lot of other awesome people!) did Beethoven, Stravinsky, video and audio toolkits, baseball’s greatest hits, poetry in motion, the windows version of A Night to Remember…
@steveriggins @octothorpe very cool! i did not get a chance to talk to colin about HDN unfortunately - we spent most of our time talking about the early VEBs like Jurassic Park
i've been working with a group of archivists for the past few years to preserve as many of the Voyager titles as possible. the catalogue is massive!