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Re:Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode by anoncake on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:05AM (#19918555)
> For the curious, google some posters by Josef Muller-Brockmann from the 50’s - they still appear to be designed in 2019.

I disagree, it's quite obvious they were designed in the 50s/60s.

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Re:Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode by spectramax on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:10AM (#19918594)
Are we looking at the same posters?

https://i.imgur.com/BJzS7aw.jpg

No way you can say this is 50’s, can you? If so, what gives it away?

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Re:Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode by anoncake on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:19AM (#19918647)
They really look like 60's posters. I just included the 50's because some of the posters are actually from the late 50's. In fact, the left one you linked advertises an event happening on "dienstag, 5. mai 1959". The right one seems to be from 1959 too but I'm not sure.
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Re:Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode by hulahoof on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:05AM (#19918977)
The colour palette for me has a bit of a dated feel, although I assume these are scans of the originals and would probably look right at home if freshly printed.
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Re:Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode by anoncake on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:17AM (#19919056)
I think it's the writing too. All-lowercase writing was more common in the 60s and the font[1] is not that common today.

[1] https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/castletype/standard/medium/ according to Whatthefont

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Re:Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode by cphuntington97 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @11:57AM (#19920673)
It reminds me of Broadway Boogie Woogie which is from the 40s…
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