Fotomat Merch
Description: Fotomat was an American retail chain of photo development drive-through kiosks located primarily in shopping center parking lots. Fotomat Corporation was founded by Preston Fleet in San Diego, California, in the 1960s, with the first kiosk opening in Point Loma, California, in 1965. Fotomat became a public company in 1971 and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1977.[1] At its peak around 1980, there were over 4,000 Fotomats throughout the United States, primarily in suburban areas. Fotomats were distinctive for their pyramid-shaped gold-colored roofs and signs with blue and red lettering. Usually positioned in a large parking area such as a supermarket or strip mall, the Fotomat huts required a minimal amount of land and we
Description: A black background displays the text 'FOTOMAT' in off-white capital letters. Above the text is a stylized abstract shape. A horizontal blue bar is intersected by three vertical blue bars that curve downwards and outwards. Above the blue bar, a yellow stepped pyramid shape is positioned.
Description: "I made that icon. Sorry if you don’t like it. It is 20 years old now, so you might want to bear in mind the era it came from. It was intended as a 1 hour photo booth, similar to a Fotomat booth, which were a very common sight in the late 80′s when we were first developing Photoshop. It’s meant to be a person manning the booth and a cash register inside the booth. At that time, application icons were 32×32 pixels, 1 bit per pixel. The '128' is the resource ID number. That image is a screen snapshot from ResEdit, the common resource editor at the time. Whether you like it or not, it’s much more representative of a 'photo shop' than the eyeball icon that Adobe finally chose." —John Knoll
