Anyone who experienced the '80S and lived to tell the tale knows the era of boomboxes and break-dancing was defined by neon shades and 8-bit arcade games. Similarly, graphic design was as colorful as it was coarse during the 1980s. Although Adobe's PostScript technology would eventually give designers the ability to render smooth vector graphics, viewers became accustomed to seeing "stair-stepped" edges on com- puter displays and televisions, and in magazines such as Emigre. Colorful and hard-edged graphics also plastered MTV in between its music videos, and gamers saw them on consoles that they'd hook up to multichannel and cable-equipped televisions.
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