2013-04-03
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2013-03-25
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Somehow, I’d never noticed this:
The Panavision logo incorporates three aspect ratios into its design—1.33:1 (TV, standard “Academy” ratio) on the inside, 1.85:1 (standard U.S. widescreen) in the middle, and 2.35/2.40:1 (modern 35mm anamorphic) on the outside.
It was designed by an mechanical designer at the company, “Tak” Miyagishima:
Tak’s legacy is permanently imprinted on the company as the designer of the famous Panavision logo.
The Colour Of Space
- Fletcher: And this color, red, it doesn’t make much sense to me.
- Low: What would be better?
- Fletcher: Blue makes more sense… Space is blue.
- Low: No Dr. Fletcher, Space is black!
2013-03-18
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Sandia engineer Steve Yearout displays a 1/15 scale model of a NAVSTAR Block IIR GPS satellite: “Sandia sends sensors into space to detect nuclear blasts globally”. (Google cache; via.)
2013-03-15
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A Bell Telephone design with push buttons and a vestigal dial shape, taken from this animation of designs. It’s possibly a 1500 series prototype.
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c86:
How to use a Dial Telephone, 1951
This is a whitened version of a scan of Bell Telephone’s booklet for schooldchildren, The Telephone And How We Use It.
2013-01-31
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2013-01-09
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In addition to the six stamps commemorating the London Underground itself, there’s a series of four reproducing three classic posters each. As Creative Review quotes:
“There’s a wealth of beautiful posters to choose from [in the TFL archive] so it was difficult to choose just four in total,” says NB’s Nick Finney. “So, we played with multiple posters in a row across a longer format horizontal stamp. We wanted to evoke posters being displayed in the tunnel of the underground station (the modern train speeding past) and the windows of a carriage.”
