Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014)
by cyberferret on Saturday June 25, 2016 @07:20PM
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To be honest, when I started reading the article, I thought to myself "Great, another long winded dissertation on the shape of letters", but when I read further, the article goes into so many more aspects of the movie that I was completely enthralled.
Discussion of the ship's scuttling procedure, and the odd 'destruction keyboard' layout in particular I found totally fascinating. I was actually quite surprised at the level of detail the set designers went to with this movie.
If you are not a typography fan - do yourself a favour and push through the initial part of the article and wait for the bits where the author zooms in on particular screenshots to explore tiny details like the ship/company logo on cat dishes and beer cans etc.
Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014)
by scott_s on Saturday June 25, 2016 @08:49PM
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Agreed. We call that "world building" now. Where an audience can look at seemingly incidental parts of a work, and infer things about the fictional world those parts come from, because the authors designed them to be from that world.
Discussion of the ship's scuttling procedure, and the odd 'destruction keyboard' layout in particular I found totally fascinating. I was actually quite surprised at the level of detail the set designers went to with this movie.
If you are not a typography fan - do yourself a favour and push through the initial part of the article and wait for the bits where the author zooms in on particular screenshots to explore tiny details like the ship/company logo on cat dishes and beer cans etc.