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Mr. Scheurer is one of the people who worked on designs for BvS. Apparently, he had a big hand in the look and feel of the "Snyderverse" version of Gotham City.
You might want to have a look.
Thanks to io9.com for the pointer.
So there's this article on Fast Company's design section today that Todd Maffin pointed out via the CBC Fan Club's Google Plus feed. It's about the CBC's logo redesign from 1974, as engineered by the team led by one Burton Kramer. The reworking of the visual style of CBC's brand was hitting the airwaves back when I was getting settled into Regina after my father got transferred from Selkirk. Space: 1999 was also premiering on the Ceeb around the same time here in Canada. So, small wonder that, between those factors and others, I started getting hooked on typography and graphic design around that point, despite not having clue one what those things were until I got into high school and one of my arts teachers introduced me to Letraset catalogues.
Anyway. Back on point.
To quote:
"Now, following the unlikely trend of republishing vintage standards manuals, a group of design-loving Canadians are trying to bring Kramer's 1974 CBC Graphic Standards Manual to Kickstarter."
The details of the Kickstarter campaign are here. CBC is interested, according to the guy working on pulling this together - a gentlebeing named Adrian Jean - but they want to know how widespread that interest is. first. I've already signed onto the pledge (despite not being sure that I'll be able to put up the money when the time comes), and I'm hopeful that interest will go well beyond the extent needed for a "limited edition" reprint. This is a piece of Canadian cultural and graphic design history we're talking about here. I want to see this in regular bookstores, in public and school libraries, far and wide, across the country.
How about it?
Canadian History Question
Jul. 26th, 2015 09:51 pmSeeing as the Bay's in the process of taking down all the "old" signage featuring "the Bay/la Baie" wordmark with the stylized "B" looking like a ribbon and replacing it with a wordmark more appropriate to the side of a passenger rail car circa 1900 or so - check railfonts.com, particularly their "Railroad Roman" family to see what I mean - I was wondering about this: back in 1965, when the Bay was unveiling that earlier wordmark, there must have been TV ads promoting the then-new corporate identity. Has any of the footage from those ads survived into the present?
Orion Cockpit Design
Dec. 14th, 2014 09:33 pmOn a more positive note...stumbled across this on YouTube tonight...
Getting the sense that this is what Drexler, Okuda and company were aiming for in their work on the 2150's travel pod cockpit designs for Enterprise.
Trouble is, I worry that such design choices could backfire on the crews of Orion-type mission vehicles. One sufficiently nasty solar flare...? But surely, the designers of this real-'verse cockpit have already anticipated such things?
Getting the sense that this is what Drexler, Okuda and company were aiming for in their work on the 2150's travel pod cockpit designs for Enterprise.
Trouble is, I worry that such design choices could backfire on the crews of Orion-type mission vehicles. One sufficiently nasty solar flare...? But surely, the designers of this real-'verse cockpit have already anticipated such things?
UX Design Meetup
Sep. 15th, 2014 08:19 amI figure on attending this on Thursday night.
As for the group's purpose? Details here in the "About us" link. With my addition to design issues rooted in things all the way back to TOS Trek and Space: 1999, I figured I had to go have a look.
More on other stuff later in the day...
As for the group's purpose? Details here in the "About us" link. With my addition to design issues rooted in things all the way back to TOS Trek and Space: 1999, I figured I had to go have a look.
More on other stuff later in the day...
An Open Complaint to LJ Management
Jul. 10th, 2014 09:09 amDo not switch the formatting of either my Friendlist or "Friends of Friends" pages over to the "New and Improved" style without my consent.
<i>I did NOT give any such consent.</i>
How do I switch back? CAN I switch back the formatting?
Because various people have been pointing things out to me via Facebook that are catching my attention tonight.
The Geometry of Starship Design - Star Trek from robotjackelope.com. Focusing mainly on the TOS Enterprise, but a page is set aside for the Klingon D-7 as well. I was never the best geometry student in high school. I barely recall ever hearing about the "golden ratio" concept, and we never got into the Fibonacci Sequence material at all. But this is interesting. Thanks to the Star Trek Art Group on Facebook for this!
(For those of you interested in Star Wars, there's another page from the same blog.)
From the Icarus Interstellar Blog, pointed out to me by David Brin, we have some thoughts on starship design in a different direction, based on assumptions that artificial gravity will have to be attained by more realistic means. Mostly, they focus on the probability that long-haul generation ships really are going to have to be mobile towns on the scale of Melville to Moose Jaw in terms of population in order to work.
Not a mathematician or an engineer, so I'll be interested in seeing opinions from the rest of the room re: these two articles.
The Geometry of Starship Design - Star Trek from robotjackelope.com. Focusing mainly on the TOS Enterprise, but a page is set aside for the Klingon D-7 as well. I was never the best geometry student in high school. I barely recall ever hearing about the "golden ratio" concept, and we never got into the Fibonacci Sequence material at all. But this is interesting. Thanks to the Star Trek Art Group on Facebook for this!
(For those of you interested in Star Wars, there's another page from the same blog.)
From the Icarus Interstellar Blog, pointed out to me by David Brin, we have some thoughts on starship design in a different direction, based on assumptions that artificial gravity will have to be attained by more realistic means. Mostly, they focus on the probability that long-haul generation ships really are going to have to be mobile towns on the scale of Melville to Moose Jaw in terms of population in order to work.
Not a mathematician or an engineer, so I'll be interested in seeing opinions from the rest of the room re: these two articles.
Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
Feb. 7th, 2014 09:13 pmStumbled across this tonight with help from boingboing.net. Some of you with an interest in things medieval and suchlike might be interested.
http://www.mufi.info/
Nothing like old things given new life, is there?
http://www.mufi.info/
Nothing like old things given new life, is there?
Typefight title fights
Nov. 7th, 2013 03:10 pmSo this looks interesting:
http://thetypefight.com/
More on other stuff to follow in between resume submissions...
http://thetypefight.com/
More on other stuff to follow in between resume submissions...
Found out about this chart earlier today:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/12/batman-infographic.jpg
The basic design really has survived a lot over the decades, hasn't it?
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/12/batman-infographic.jpg
The basic design really has survived a lot over the decades, hasn't it?
