This little section presents GUI elements breaking out from computer screens and appearing in real world. If you have more photos or ideas, please, let me know.

“Each building sign used a number from a different Macintosh type font, in this case, a bit-mapped number 4. Each building’s signs include the number and an identifying color”

“Giant Macintosh icons sport in the sculpture garden, a public art installation that brings the familiar pictograms to life” These two photos and following description come from the book You are here: Graphics that direct, explain & entertain , published in 1998. “The kind of fun and playful design that made Apple Computer famous marks the comprehensive interior and exterior graphics program for the company’s Research and Development Campus. The project covers six buildings, with 850,000 sq. ft. of office space, on a 32.5 acre site in Cupertino, CA. It includes more than 3,000 room identification signs, code-required sings, building identification, and a major public art installation. Familiar Mac icons, typefaces, and bitmapped graphics are all included in the brightly colored system.”

These two photos appear courtesy of Marc Zeedar of MacOPINION . There were taken in October 2001, during the grand opening of Apple’s store in Palo Alto, California, US. Both show the front window display with floating Mac OS X interface elements.

These two pictures were shot by Thomas Stromberg in Apple Store in Durham, North Carolina, US, in March 2002. The first one shows a long banner inside, highlighting the features of Mac OS X 10.1. The second one shows a desktop-like window of the store.