This is a promised follow-up for the Soviet tech logos post from a couple of weeks back. Here I’ve redrawn a selection of Western firms from roughly the same period (1960s-1980s). The primary focus here is on electronics, defense and engineering firms which were in some way connected with military contracting during that period […]

The cover of the June 1981 issue of Future life. There’s something about a flimsy NBC suit, the triangular handguard version of M16 and Ray Bans that takes you back to the world of imagined postapocalyptic adventure.

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.