14/41 – 14 Years, 41 Logos is the first book from Mash Creative (www.mashcreative.co.uk) founder Mark Bloom.

Produced as a limited run, the book showcases 41 of his favourite logos designed during a 14 year career. Includes five golden rules of logo design and an insight into how he approaches an identity brief.

148mm x 210mm, 100 pages, P.U.R bound with white foil debossed logo to the cover, this beautiful soft back book has been printed with an enticing mix of GF Smith Colourplan and Olin rough papers.

Available to buy from :  www.thisisourshop.com

Also available to buy from Design Museum Shop, Magma books and Artword Books.

England’s Burning by Stephen McCarthy, a graduate from 2011 LCC MA Contemporary Typographic Media course.

His 32-page research paper for Unit Editions covers the events of last August through the use of pictograms. It opens with the police shooting of Mark Duggan in London and covers the demonstrations, looting, clean up campaigns and sentencing that followed.

This is what we at typetoken® feel truly describes — “The distinction used to clarify the meaning of symbols of formal languages.”

You can purchase this lovely project at Unit Editions.

This past week Voyager 1 went into the ‘Foam’. Let us hope that someone or something will find it’s contents.

PHOTO 1 — VOYAGER1

spacecraft is a 722-kilogram (1,592-lb) robotic American space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. Operating for 33 years, 9 months, and 6 days as of today (11 June 2011), the spacecraft receives routine commands and transmits data back to the Deep Space Network. It is the first probe to leave the Solar System and is the farthest man made object from Earth.

PHOTO 2 — Golden Record

“In the upper left-hand corner is an easily recognized drawing of the phonograph record and the stylus carried with it. The stylus is in the correct position to play the record from the beginning. Written around it in binary arithmetic is the correct time of one rotation of the record, 3.6 seconds, expressed in time units of 0,70 billionths of a second, the time period associated with a fundamental transition of the hydrogen atom. The drawing indicates that the record should be played from the outside in. Below this drawing is a side view of the record and stylus, with a binary number giving the time to play one side of the record – about an hour.

“The information in the upper right-hand portion of the cover is designed to show how pictures are to be constructed from the recorded signals. The top drawing shows the typical signal that occurs at the start of a picture. The picture is made from this signal, which traces the picture as a series of vertical lines, similar to ordinary television (in which the picture is a series of horizontal lines). Picture lines 1, 2 and 3 are noted in binary numbers, and the duration of one of the “picture lines,” about 8 milliseconds, is noted. The drawing immediately below shows how these lines are to be drawn vertically, with staggered “interlace” to give the correct picture rendition. Immediately below this is a drawing of an entire picture raster, showing that there are 512 vertical lines in a complete picture. Immediately below this is a replica of the first picture on the record to permit the recipients to verify that they are decoding the signals correctly. A circle was used in this picture to insure that the recipients use the correct ratio of horizontal to vertical height in picture reconstruction.

“The drawing in the lower left-hand corner of the cover is the pulsar map previously sent as part of the plaques on Pioneers 10 and 11. It shows the location of the solar system with respect to 14 pulsars, whose precise periods are given. The drawing containing two circles in the lower right-hand corner is a drawing of the hydrogen atom in its two lowest states, with a connecting line and digit 1 to indicate that the time interval associated with the transition from one state to the other is to be used as the fundamental time scale, both for the time given on the cover and in the decoded pictures.

“Electroplated onto the record’s cover is an ultra-pure source of uranium-238 with a radioactivity of about 0.00026 microcuries. The steady decay of the uranium source into its daughter isotopes makes it a kind of radioactive clock. Half of the uranium-238 will decay in 4.51 billion years. Thus, by examining this two-centimeter diameter area on the record plate and measuring the amount of daughter elements to the remaining uranium-238, an extraterrestrial recipient of the Voyager spacecraft could calculate the time elapsed since a spot of uranium was placed aboard the spacecraft. This should be a check on the epoch of launch, which is also described by the pulsar map on the record cover.”

PHOTO 3 — Golden Record

The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. Following the section on the sounds of Earth, there is an eclectic 90-minute selection of music, including both Eastern and Western classics and a variety of ethnic music. Once the Voyager spacecraft leave the solar system (by 1990, both will be beyond the orbit of Pluto), they will find themselves in empty space. It will be forty thousand years before they make a close approach to any other planetary system. As Carl Sagan has noted, “The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.”

The definitive work about the Voyager record is “Murmurs of Earth” by Executive Director, Carl Sagan, Technical Director, Frank Drake, Creative Director, Ann Druyan, Producer, Timothy Ferris, Designer, Jon Lomberg, and Greetings Organizer, Linda Salzman. Basically, this book is the story behind the creation of the record, and includes a full list of everything on the record. “Murmurs of Earth”, originally published in 1978, was reissued in 1992 by Warner News Media with a CD-ROM that replicates the Voyager record. Unfortunately, this book is now out of print, but it is worth the effort to try and find a used copy or browse through a library copy.

Robert Montgomery works in a poetic and melancholic post-situationist tradition. Creating Billboard pieces, Recycled sunlight pieces and drawings. His work consists of hijacking advertising space in the city, often illegally and replacing it with poetry.

www.robertmontgomery.org

Lavafilm is a small and courageous film company based in Oslo, Norway. They deliver almost everything in filmmaking and is inspired by fashion and contemporary art.

In the development of their identity, we explored the interaction between the classic and the contemporary. We have experimented with a solution, where the sum of the visual elements are the cornerstone of the identity, as opposed to the standard, where the logo stands out as the most important element.

This project was made in collaboration between Henrik Wold Kraglund and Ludvig Bruneau Rossow.

http://www.chadhagen.com

The system works with three layers. The first layer informs you about the genre of the novel, the second about the mood (next to the prevailing mood) and the third about the structure and the complexity of language.

All layers are based on basic forms which have psychological meanings. That´s why it is an intuitive system without need of learning. The result of these overlaid layers is the prevailing mood of the novel. The System translates type and informative contents into pictures and helps to orientate oneself in a confusing bookshop. Designed with Susanne Stahl.

http://www.andregottschalk.com

Creating the identity for a contemporary art centre is always a complex job and an exciting challenge. And more so when the centre is not only restricted to fine arts, but incorporates three other disciplines: science, thought and communication. They created a logo which works as a visual poem, as the four A’s are missing from the name, which correspond to the four arts which coexist at the centre.

http://www.clasebcn.com

Eco Reminders: http://www.hu2.com/store/eco-reminders.html

The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language.

Welcome to iconwerk!

Custom pictogram + icon design for your next project. Web, application and print.

Great work here at ironwerk simple and clear.

I know we here at Typetoken agree with there tagline: Show, don’t tell. Pictograms work in all languages.

This video is part of Think Vitamin’s web design training series and takes a brief look at the history and significance of iconography.

View the video on Think Vitamin