One of my favorite sites is the Museum of Soviet Calculators, which is a vast repository of information about the large quantity of calculating machines the Soviet Union turned out during the Cold War. One of the most intriguing pages there is a gallery of logos for Soviet state electronics firms, that happened to have […]
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Soviet Tech Logos
By Irvin • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Archived, Calculators, East Bloc, Electronics, Graphic Design, Logos, USSR
Mapping World War III: Soviet Global Invasion Routes
By Irvin • Apr 5th, 2008 • Category: Archived, East Bloc, Graphic Design, History, Maps, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Strategy, USSR
A sequence of maps from a 1987 Department of Defense study, reveal the visual contours of a now impossible future: the conquest of the world by the Soviet Union.
Cold War Pixel Camouflage
By Irvin • Apr 5th, 2008 • Category: Archived, Armor, Camouflage, Graphic Design, Military, USA, West Bloc
Modern digital camouflage has a Cold War origin in experiments conducted in the late 1970s by the United States Army.
