2- U.S. National
Park Servicies Unigrid System: Vignelli Associates/National
Park Service
1- CBS
Records “Chicago” album cover: John Berg
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U.S. Supreme Court
decision permits lawyer advertisements for first time
Apple Computer founded, Apple I launched
“Roots” TV miniseries airs
Hewlett-Packard portable micro-computer
First optic fiber phone lines
France: Centre Georges Pompidou inaugurated
Punk music movement in England
Film, Star Wars
Sadat visits Israel
U.S. tests neutron bomb
Man Ray dies
Apple II introduced; first personal computer with color graphics capability
Mao Tse-tung dies; Gang of Four coup attempt crushed by Deng Xiao-ping
1978
1- Bell Centennial designed for AT&T,
specifically for telephone directory typesetting: Matthew Carter
2- Fresh Paint poster: Implement, Ltd.
1- Nike marathon poster: John Brown
& Partners
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Showtime
cable network launched by Viacom
Italy: Aldo Moro assassinated by Red Brigade
Camp David Agreements: Sadat and Begin receive Nobel Peace Prize
Jim Jones cult suicide in Guayana
First test-tube baby born in England
John Paul II first Polish pope
Norman Rockwell dies
Epson introduces dot-matrix printer
1979
1- BMW North America “The Ultimate
Driving Machine” print ad: Ammirati & Puris
2- Washburn College Bible: Bradbury Thompson
1- Federal Express “When it
absolutely, positively has to be there overnight” TV commercial:
Ally & Gargano, agency; Sedelmaier Productions, production
company
2- ITC Franklin Gothic: Vic Caruso (M.F.
Benton, 1904)
1- Maxell print ad: Scali, McCabe,
Sloves
2- Fetish: The Magazine of the Material
Word: Doublespace
1- H. J. Heinz annual report: Corporate
Graphics
2- Helvetica poster: Jack Summerford
Politics e culture
Margaret Thatcher elected
British prime ministerNAB Code Authority lifts ban on advertising
of pregnancy test kits and “jock-itch” remedies
Adobe Systems introduces Postscript
ESPN launched
Sony walkman
Soviet army invades afghanistan
First laser printer-copier
Three Mile Island
Iran: Fall of the Shah, rise of Khomeni, Iranians take U.S. embassy
and hostages
Vietnam invades Cambodia, expels Khmer rouge
Sonia Delaunay dies