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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

week_3.txt · Last modified: 2020/08/04 16:36 by Chad