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Michael Whelan - Nor Crystal Tears (Alan Dean Foster, 1982) Image from Michael Whelan’s Works of Wonder (1987)

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Indiana Bell Switching Center, Columbus, Indiana, 1976.

Architect: Paul Kennon/Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS)

Photography: Carol M. Highsmith

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July 1999. 'Five designers dream up looks for Barbie's 40th birthday.'

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MacPaint ad, 1982

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USA 1992

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Penthouse in the Las Vegas Country Club Estates, Regency Towers - Las Vegas, NV (1985)

Architecture by Marnell-Carreo, Interior Design by Lilyan Parker Interiors

Scanned from a 1986 issue of Designer's West Magazine

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1970s Disney's Contemporary Resort

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Crystal Court Mall (expansion of South Coast Plaza) - Costa Mesa, CA (Oct. 1986)

Designed by Architects Pacifica Ltd.

Scanned from the book, Shopping Centers and Malls 2 (1988)

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ソニー　暑中お見舞い申し上げます。1983

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Pulsar by Robert Doornick (1983), International Robotics Inc., New York, NY. Jon Taffer founded Pulsations, the monster dance club that brought Studio 54 vibes to West Philadelphia in 1983, “We had a robot custom-built for us by International Robotronics in New York. Its name was Pulsar and it was skinned to be an alien. … Pulsar would come out of a spaceship and dance with the crowd every night. The spaceship was 27 feet in diameter, pulled about 600 amps and had 70 lighting systems on it. It would fly over the crowd on an I-beam track and come down over the dance floor. The doors would open, dry ice fog would dump out, bright lights would come on sort of like that scene in Close Encounters, and this $400,000 robot would appear to levitate out of the ship onto the floor. It was a really remarkable thing.” – ‘Bar Rescue’ Star Jon Taffer Shares True Tales of Punk and Disco, by Cory Sklar, RollingStone.

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USA 1990

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Selected images from Creative Computer Graphics published by Cambridge University Press, 1984