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(Pic) The Origin Of A Meme

(Pic) The Origin Of A Meme

By Francisco Hui on January 29, 2010

We stumbled upon this image that attempt to trace the history of a meme.

Starting from the original Keep Calm and Carry On poster, the phylogentic tree divides the history of the poster into subdivisions of related topics and variations within them.

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Franc is a consultant working at the New York office of PSFK.

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TOPICS:	Arts & Culture, Design & Architecture, Science
TAGS:	heritage, history, ideas, origin, tracking

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