This black knit t-shirt features an embroidered Apple Education logotype on the upper-left front. The logotype is in Apple’s Myriad font, used by Apple from approximately 2003–2017.
The back of the shirt has an an embroidered Apple logo in white at the top center.
According to its tag, the knit shirt is made by PORT AUTHORITY, an apparel and accessory brand launched in 1994. The shirt is a Medium size.
This dark green t-shirt was made for Apple’s Back to School events and promotions in 2011. The front features a stylized hand-drawn sketch that includes an Apple logo and icons for Pages, GarageBand, iMovie, Keynote, Twitter, iTunes, and other drawings.
The back of the shirt includes an Apple logo and the words “Back to School 2011” in Apple’s Myriad font, used by Apple from approximately 2003–17.
The shirt is made by American Apparel, a brand “that stands for inclusiveness, equality and empowerment.” The shirt is a Men’s/Unisex Large size.
This luggage tag is made from transparent acrylic and is wrapped with an anodized metal blue accent. One side of the blue accent features a white Apple logo, and the other side includes a cutout for the user’s name and is printed with the words “2011 Education Sales Club.” The words are printed in white in the Apple Myriad font, Apple’s corporate font used approximately between 2003–2017.
The slide-out card with personal information inside the luggage tag is secured by a translucent silicone loop.
The luggage tag has elegantly rounded corners and thickly curved edges. It measures 2 3/8 inches wide, 3 1/2 inches long, and is 1/4 inch thick.
This luggage tag is made from a gray-brown transparent acrylic and is wrapped with an anodized metal silver accent. One side of the anodized silver accent features a black Apple logo and a cutout for the user’s name, and the other side is printed with the words “2007 Education Sales Club.” The words are printed in the Apple Myriad font, Apple’s corporate font used approximately between 2003–2017.
The slide-out card with printed information inside the luggage tag is secured by a translucent silicone loop.
The luggage tag has elegantly rounded corners and thickly curved edges. It measures 2 3/8 inches wide, 3 1/2 inches long, and is 1/4 inch thick.
This Luggage Identification Card is metal with a silver brushed stainless steel finish. The metal edges of the card are folded in to secure a clear plastic front, a white card that reads “YOUR BUSINESS CARD HERE,” and a matching stainless steel back plate. The metal back plate and card housing have holes that match positions so when threaded, the Luggage Identification Card remains secure.
The stainless steel back plate on this Luggage Identification Card is printed in white with the words “2009 Education Sales Club” in the Apple Myriad font. Apple Myriad was Apple’s corporate font used approximately between 2003–2017.
This retractable black plastic pen has a white accent under the clip, a white Apple logo, and is printed with the URL www.apple.com/education in the Apple Myriad font (Apple’s corporate font from approximately 2003–2017).
The pen is made by BIC and measures approximately 5.75 inches long.
This black Apple Education badge holder was used approximately between 2003–2017 at Apple Education events, workshops, and conferences where Apple was presenting and/or otherwise contributing.
This badge holder is nylon and accommodates a 4×3-inch name badge. The front includes a Velcro pocket closure with a zipper compartment inside that can hold business cards or credit-card-sized items. The front is printed with a white Apple logo and the logotype Apple Education in the Myriad font, Apple’s corporate font used between 2003–2017.
The back of the badge includes two loops designed to hold pens and a small pocket.
This magnetic lapel “pin” features the Swift programming logo in bright red on a black metal background. Although it looks like a lapel pin, it uses a strong magnet, instead of a pin, to attach.
The pin measures 24x17mm and is on a 3-inch white cardboard square in a clear plastic pouch.
Apple describes Swift as “The powerful programming language that’s also easy to learn.” In addition, “Swift is a powerful and intuitive programming language for all Apple platforms. It’s easy to get started using Swift, with a concise-yet-expressive syntax and modern features you’ll love. Swift code is safe by design and produces software that runs lightning-fast.”
This pin was distributed at an Apple Education event that discussed different uses of Swift programming in K–12 school programs.
This long-sleeve t-shirt is a burgundy-heather color and features the Apple Education Community logotype across the front. The words are printed in white in the San Francisco font, Apple’s official corporate font since 2017.
On the right sleeve of the shirt is printed education.apple.com. The back of the shirt has no printing.
The shirt was made by BELLA+CANVAS and its tag reads “HEATHER CVC.” Its size is 3XL.
Several Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) wore these shirts when presenting at the Apple Michigan Avenue flagship store on November 4, 2023. We presented several Showcase presentations about innovative educational programs and uses of Apple technology in schools in Illinois and Wisconsin using the Apple Store’s iconic Video Wall. I have included a group photo from the event below. Notice that a few different colors of this shirt were worn by the ADEs.
The Visual Almanac is the earliest Apple Education multimedia product in my collection. According to the kit’s Laser Disc, pictured on the Domesday86 website:
“The Visual Almanac is composed of 3 parts: the Visual Almanac Videodisc, the Visual Almanac software, and the Visual Almanac Companion (a book). This two-sided videodisc contains an Introduction, over 7000 images and 2 channels of sound organized into 12 collections. It is designed to be used under control of a Macintosh computer.”
The printed materials include a guide (First Steps in the Visual Almanac) and a spiral-bound book. Media includes three 3.5-inch disks: HyperCard 1.2.2; Visual Almanac Home (home HyperCard stack; Collections Directory (pre-made collections), and a CD-ROM. The kit also includes a cable.
The cable is described as a “LaserDisc Player Serial Lead,” designed to “connect a Pioneer player (with a 15 pin D-Sub connector) to the Apple Macintosh mini-DIN serial port.”
The box containing all the items in the kit measures 12.75 inches square and is 1.5 inches deep. The accompanying spiral-bound book is titled The Visual Almanac: An Interactive Multimedia Kit Companion, measures 11 x 8.5 inches, and contains 216 pages, printed in full color.
The Preface of the book contains a welcome message that states the resource’s intent:
“Welcome to The Visual Almanac! We designed the The Visual Almanac to give everyone a glimpse of potential computer-centered futures and have tried to show how current multimedia technologies might be used to do something new. We tried to make something that could be used now, but would also provoke the development of methodologies, technologies and pedagogies for the future. It is an interactive multimedia kit aimed at children and all their teachers—in schools, in homes and in various public environments—as well as business people, researchers and developers who make educational and other materials for our youth.”
Although the full package is dated January 1990, the accompanying CD-ROM is dated 1989 and the CD (as well as the Laser Disc) specifies that it was “Produced by the Apple Multimedia Lab.”
The box in my collection is missing the accompanying 2-sided LaserDisc that contains the primary content in 78 “collections” for the kit:
Side A Collections Animals and Plants Earth View Everyday Physics Solar System Sounds Side A
Side B Collections American History Around the World History of Daily Life Everyday Objects Historical Portraits Sounds Side B Studies in Time
Special thanks to the Domesday86 website for providing an excellent, detailed entry about this kit that allowed me to better describe this early educational multimedia example.