If “Drive” (2011) feels dreamlike, it’s because that Los Angeles no longer exists. As Ryan Gosling drove under streetlights, the city was on the edge of change. 160,000 lamps had been swapped for white LEDs. By the 2020s, 98% of those lights gone cold.
Magazine ads for Soysauce (Kikkoman) designed by Tadashi Ohashi in the 1980s. Scanned from Advertisements (World Graphic Design Now), Kodansha, 1991
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On November 14, 2009, Microsoft started selling the first model of the Zune handheld multimedia player.
The simple and clean design of Zune control features is considered to be one of the first uses of flat design in user interface.