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Uncredited WPA poster for a 1936 production of R.U.R. aka “Rossum’s Universal Robots” a 1920 sci-fi play that coined the word robot into English. via paul.malon & mudwerks

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum’s Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original.^[1] It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word “robot” to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.^[2]

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Posted on January 25, 2013 via sloth unleashed with 26 notes ()

“16th Exhibition of Japan Advertising Artists Club” poster by Tadanori Yokoo, 1968. His current work is here. via theshinyboogie

Tadanori Yokoo, born in Nishiwaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in 1936, is one of Japan’s most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. He began his career as a stage designer for avant garde theatre in Tokyo. His early work shows the influence of the New York based Push Pin Studio (Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast in particular) but Yokoo himself cites filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and writer Yukio Mishima as two of his most formative influences.

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