Hi Marc, everyone, The Logo is inspired by diverse sources, the primary purpose is for it to look and feel a lot like the contents of next Friday's performance.
I work a lot in graphic arts and advertising and I often try and reflect current cultural trends/aesthetics in my own artwork work to discuss the interplay between the way information is designed and the way it is received. In other words, the way things look right now have a lot to do with the way things are right now and vice versa. I'm currently very interested in recent revivals in 80s aesthetics, especially the use of airbrushed 3d Wireframe models and the combination of certain colours like the teal and red pictured in the logo. This look is obviously apparent in a lot of early videogames, and computer visualizations. I suppose it originally existed as a limitation of graphics power but evolved into an aesthetic that represents something else. I've also been looking at a lot of Op art and cold war computer interfaces. for those more visual below is a list of links to inspired sources. Op Art, Richard Anuszkiewicz <http://www.okcmoa.com/~okcmoa/files/u1/Anuszkiewicz__Diamond_Chroma__1968.091.jpg> Daft Punk, Alive Logo: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Daft_Punk_Alive_2007.JPG Tron, Poster: http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/post-tron.jpg more Tron artwork: <http://pics.livejournal.com/xray_studios/pic/0002q0k2/s640x480> Kavinsky Album Art: <http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XUwgQCmmL._SL500_AA280_.jpg> Metallica Logo: <http://www.freewebs.com/d4wg/metallica.jpg> American One Dollar Bill: <http://www.kumah.org/uploaded_images/OneDollar_NovusOrdoSeclorum-704631.jpg> Asteroids Deluxe Artwork: <http://i.cdn.turner.com/gametap/web30/games/120018050/AsteroidsDeluxe_ARC_Atari_205_914b0.PNG> Iron Man, the movie's computer interface <http://www.denofgeek.com/siteimage/scale/800/600/21640.png> FA 18 Fighter cockpit: <http://www.ausairpower.net/FA-18D-Cockpit-Night-Attack-S.jpg> jeremy On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:10 PM, marc garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A warm welcome to Netbehaviour Jeremy, > > I want to begin by discussing 'WarMail' which will be performed with a > participating audience at the HTTP Gallery next Friday the 19th. > > > > > I am intrigued by the image that you are using to represent this project. > It looks as if it might be referring to a Star Wars film poster, but I am > sure that this is not the case. Could you enlighten us on how this image > came about? > > marc > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
