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- Mar 2, 2015
You know, archiving great work of design, typography and logos is actually a neat idea. Without the power of computer aided graphics wizardry, the artists behind these well known logos and animation had to rely on skills and hard work.
But of course, this isn't about that, isn't it? Apparently this is about logos that, for arbitrary reasons, scare people shitless and general obsession about the most meaningless details.
I visited that site and clicked the first link i could find, which led me to the 20th Century Fox Television page. Great, that logo is basically burned into our cultural subconsciousness by now, so why not chronicle it's origin, history and evolution? No CGI back then, how did they do it? Who designed it? How many non-union workers died during the process, etc?
The "credits", a list of people who amassed this huge blob of meaningless information is the first thing you see, and is longer than the background of the logo and it's company itself. Maybe i'm nitpicking, i don't know, but somehow i don't give a damn about WizardDuck
and his screengrab skills and seeing the just how many of these KirbyGuy2001 guys proudly contributed to this mess makes me feel dizzy.
Seriously, the rest of the page is filled with insanely detailed descriptions a logo's shape, dimensions and "scare factors", information that mostly is useless and uninteresting for the average person:
Even Dustin Hoffmann's Rain Man would find this a tad bit too excessive.
But of course, this isn't about that, isn't it? Apparently this is about logos that, for arbitrary reasons, scare people shitless and general obsession about the most meaningless details.
I visited that site and clicked the first link i could find, which led me to the 20th Century Fox Television page. Great, that logo is basically burned into our cultural subconsciousness by now, so why not chronicle it's origin, history and evolution? No CGI back then, how did they do it? Who designed it? How many non-union workers died during the process, etc?
20th Century Fox Television
Logo descriptions by Matt Williams, James Stanley Barr, Nicholas Aczel,Eric S. and Logophile
Logo captures by Bob Fish, V of Doom, Eric S., mr3urious, Mr. Logo Lord, WizardDuck, EnormousRat, Logoboy95, phasicblu, James Stanley Barr, Shadeed A. Kelly, Logophile, and StephenCezar15
Editions by V of Doom, mr3urious, Mr. Logo Lord, Logophile, Shadeed A. Kelly, Donny Pearson, and KirbyGuy2001
Video captures courtesy of JohnnyL80, mcydodge919, Mike Stidham, and Eric S.
Background: 20th Century Fox Television (formerly "TCF Television Productions, Inc.") was originally founded in 1949 as other studios were branching out into television production as well. In 1955, the studio officially began television production. Currently, it's a TV subsidiary of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, a division of the Fox Entertainment Group, a 21st Century Fox Company.
The "credits", a list of people who amassed this huge blob of meaningless information is the first thing you see, and is longer than the background of the logo and it's company itself. Maybe i'm nitpicking, i don't know, but somehow i don't give a damn about WizardDuck
and his screengrab skills and seeing the just how many of these KirbyGuy2001 guys proudly contributed to this mess makes me feel dizzy.
Seriously, the rest of the page is filled with insanely detailed descriptions a logo's shape, dimensions and "scare factors", information that mostly is useless and uninteresting for the average person:
Even Dustin Hoffmann's Rain Man would find this a tad bit too excessive.
