===== From Peter: ===== ==== Reading for this week! ==== "How One Typeface Landed on the Moon" - Douglas Thomas, excerpt from Never Use Futura (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017). https://magenta.as/how-one-typeface-landed-on-the-moon-dd31ea17d732 "The racist language of space exploration" - Caroline Haskins, The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5809/the-racist-language-of-space-exploration "Behind the iron curtain, the final frontier: Soviet space art – in pictures" (review of Soviet Space Graphics: Cosmic Visions from the USSR (Phaidon)) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/04/behind-the-iron-curtain-the-final-frontier-soviet-space-art-in-pictures ==== Plus a reminder to revisit these from the first week (related to the Futura story, too): ==== NASA Graphics Standards Manual - 1975, Danne & Blackburn [USA] https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-graphics-standards-manual/ “Are you Team Meatball, or Team Worm?”, Christopher Bonanos https://standardsmanual.com/products/nasa-graphics-standards-manual