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 […]
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
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.
