This is the title of an essay by Neal Stephenson published online in 1999. From the Wikipedia: “The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software. It also analyzes the corporate/collective culture of the Microsoft, Macintosh, and free …
When I designed the Chatsubo Bar T-shirt back in 2008, I couldn’t have imagined that someday Mr. William Gibson would see one of them. My jaw dropped when I saw this picture posted to my Facebook wall by Blake wearing his Chatsubo Bar T-shirt at a reading of Mr. Gibson at the University of Calgary …
This is real geek stuff. T-shirts based on the fictitious company Tessier-Ashpool S.A. from the book Neuromancer by William Gibson. Unlike other designs on Memetic Tees, the idea here wasn’t to create a striking logo but a serious corporate image that would serve as a base for the shirts of the company and its various …
“With his deck waiting, back in the loft, an Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7. They’d left the place littered with the abstract white forms of the foam packing units, with crumpled plastic film and hundreds of tiny foam beads. The Ono-Sendai; next year’s most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a …
“The Singularity is here”, is a new section of the shop. To open up this new “world” I have split the concept of transhumans in two t-shirts. “H+: Transhuman” and “H+:Posthuman”. H+ is used to refer to “Transhumanism” and is often used as a synonym for “human enhancement”. A Transhuman enhances himself with the aid …
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Hardwired is a 1986 cyberpunk science fiction novel by Walter Jon Williams. It’s one of the most important works in the cyberpunk genre. If you are into cyberpunk but you haven’t read it I encourage you to do so. I couldn’t resist to make a T-shirt with a “Glow in the dark” design that tells that you …
When I created the Neuromancer T-Shirt (very simple but elegant) I was thinking of something to wear at night even when going to a club. I could see the shirt glowing around. A wintermute design had been for a long time on my mind. I was playing with typography and trying to create some kind …
Many years have passed since I read Neuromancer by William Gibson. I always liked the Chatsubo bar. For those who haven’t read the novel, here is the introduction in the first chapter: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. “It’s not like I’m using,” Case heard someone …
