Posts Tagged ‘Cold War’

Western Cold War Firm Logos (Defense & Engineering)

By admin • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Archived, Calculators, Energy, Graphic Design, Logos, Nuclear Weapons, USA

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 […]



Mapping World War III: Soviet Global Invasion Routes

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.