From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Vita Nuova product design
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:58:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89afcf1122a03464695ba13ce0e62e9c@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191020477.260971.69370@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
> It would be very interesting to read the story about who designed
> boxes and book covers for Vita Nuova.
Vita Nuova had a graphics artist, Jeff Parker, do that design early in 2000. that was years ago
now so i don't remember the details of the brief, but evidently the design was suggested by
the notion of space invasion from Plan 9 from Outer Space although the design
owes nothing more to the film. it was intended to be distinctive but fun compared to
the usual corporate programming manual style.
the artwork was completed some time before we knew about Renée French's `Glenda'
being the official Plan 9 mascot.
there was a completely different design for the earlier Second Edition Plan 9 set published
by Harcourt-Brace for Bell Labs. its amusing and elegant cover design was
by Gerard Holzmann (cf. pico and ``The Digital Darkroom'').
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