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Un logo semplificato per la serie degli ZYMACHI a forma di fago (virus). Più che altro ne approfitto per sperimentare il tema di default della nuova versione 3.6 di WordPress (TwentyThirteen), che dà più risalto alla formattazione dei post. Nella fattispecie il format “Image” ha un font più piccolo per il titolo, e sposta tutti i metadati a pié di pagina.
Zymachi know how things work, but they don’t know what things are. Proteena provides names to things. In one scene she names Zymachi themselves [31] following a sort of binary system: O=Zero, X=Yeoman, OO=Moon-moon, OX=Antagonist, XX=Charm, O/X=Healer, X/O=Idiot (in a first version names were: Cyclops, Druid, Goggle, Boxer, Numb, Skeleton and Clown). Baptized Zymachi conform their behaviour to the given name.
Finding the word “Zymachi” was hard work, especially because there was another candidate: Placebot, conjunction of placebo and robot. Unfortunately Place Bots are specific codes used in Lotus or Java scripts, so I had to discard the word, and was only left with a logo:
42 variations on ZYMACHI logo.
First and new logo for ZYMACHI animation.
The CRACK! 2006 staff asked me to draw badges for merchandising purposes. They told me the size and said I could put 40 on a single A4 sheet. At the end I fitted 42 variations of a single subject in the assigned space.
You can download the AutoCAD code (207KB,plot any size), and a GIF version (print A4 size, actual badge size, 1MB).
Immagini fatte negli anni novanta, in qualche modo correlate all’universo Zymachi…
1 – OMICRON, logo for a forthcoming serie. 2 – THE FUTURE of Entertainement, finally a meaningful image!
