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1983    
   
1- Wendy’s “Where’s the beef” TV commercial: Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, agency; Sedelmaier Productions, production company
 
     
  2- Lite Beer from Miller TV commercial: Backer & Spielvogel, agency; Steve Horn, Inc., production company
     
1- Dallas Zoo logo: Richards, Sullivan, Bock & Associates
 
     
  2- 1984 Olympic Games poster: April Greiman/ Jayme Odgers
     
1- L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation annual report: Vanderbyl Design
 
     
  2- 6 Royal Caribben print ad: McKinney, Silver & Rockett

 

   
 
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  Politics e culture  
Final episode of “M*A*S*H”
American and French scientists identify AIDS virus
Strategic Defense Initiative
U.S. invades Grenada
Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program introduced
R. Buckminster Fuller dies
Compact disc introduced
1984  
   
1- Nike outdoor board for LA Olympics: Chiat/Day
 
     
  2- AT&T digitized globe logo: Bass & Yager
     
1- “1984” Apple Macintosh TV commercial: Chiat/Day, agency; Fairbanks Films, production company
 
     
  2- Bartle & James Wine Cooler TV commercial: Ogilvy & Mather, agency; Pytka, production company
     
1- Rolling Stone “Perception/Realityt” print ad: Fallon, McElligott, Rice
 
     
  2- Children’s Defense Fund poster: Fallon McElligott

 

   
1- 1984 Summer Olympics environmental graphics: Sussman/Prejza & Co
 
     
  2- Potlach annual report: Jonson Pedersen Hinrichs & Shakery
  Politics e culture  
First laser printer introduced by Apple (using Postcript)
PageMaker introduced by Aldus Corporation
I.M. Pei selected to design the Grand Louvre
Ronald Reagan relected
India: Indira Gandhi assassinated
AT&T broken up
Nancy Reagan red and red or yellow power ties are ’80s color staples. Money and power were sociological earmarks of the decade. Red, black and glitter gold are fitting colors to sum up this era
1985  
   
1- Early Emigre typeface designs: Zuzana Licko
 
     
  2- John Hancock Financial Services “Real life, real answers” TV commercial:Hill, Holliday, Cosmopulos, agency; Pytka, production company
     
1- PepsiCo: “Archaeology” BBDO, agency; Pytka, production company
 
     
  2- Royal Viking Line company publication: Jonson Pedersen Hinrichs &Shakery
     
1- One from a series of Shoshin Society posters commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima: BYU Graphics
 
     
  2- Swatch Watch USA poster parodies Herbert Matter’s Swissair poster from the 1930s: Koppel and Scher

 

   
 
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Christo wraps Pont Neuf
Soviet Union: Gorbachev elected secretary general of Communist Party
Spain and Portugal enter EEC
State of emergency declared in South Africa
Great Britain and Ireland sign Anglo-Irish Agreement
New Coke introduced
   
   
     
   

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