institutional gravitas: a picture thread

i used the phrase "institutional gravitas" yesterday to describe the microgramma font.

http://www.earthdance.org/2006/promoters/fonts/MicrogrammaDBolExt.gif

other examples?

the whole phrase i used was "institutional gravitas circa 1973"; i was at the california science center, looking at exhibits of the space program, and microgramma was abundant.

swiss911 is the star trek TNG font I think.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2125/2131935742_b950667e8e.jpg

the "gravitas" google image search is disappointing, but this turns up:

http://www.luxury-insider.com/Columns/Peter_Chong/The_Single_Breasted_Suit/images/Single-Breasted_Suit_Title.jpg

http://www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/images/iitf_new_color_hires_5.jpg

Apologies if that don't resize itself

haha, very nice.

microgramma was/is all over caltech and parsons, silver lettering u+k.

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/TetraTech.jpg

something about that 2nd t in the logo SCREAMS engineering

It's supposed to be a microscope maybe?

i think i sent a resume to tetra tech once. they do environmental services and consulting.

speaking of engineering, she kinna teck mooch moora this, capp'n

http://www.alanoodle.com/e-prise_typeface_newer.jpg

http://funbunker.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ocp-logo.jpg

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/ed209.jpg
about to get pretty gravitas for u

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T3lzrzH2fMo/SGKrC7EmGjI/AAAAAAAABjE/NCiyub7S9mc/s400/Cannon_Films.jpg

Microgramma is king of fonts for near-future sci-fi.

http://www.groundcontrolhq.co.uk/Site/SHADO/Images/shadoLogo.gif

i was hoping there'd be some gravitas-laden CPTED literature/graphics out there, but it's all pretty granola. this is close, though:

http://www.routledgelaw.com/common/jackets/weblarge/978142006/9781420068078.jpg

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/aso/images/0G-toilet.jpg

this is cool (mysterious masonic eye of government is watching youuuuuuuuu):

http://www.mississauga.ca/file/COM/cpted.jpg

Gill Sans is nicely dualistic. When it's on the subway, it's friendly

http://www.lambertsouvenirs.com/nss-folder/lambertproductpictures/Underground1composite.jpg

but it can be sinister...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3630/3473334488_8a15f2aa94.jpg

http://www.dailymovement.com/pics/tdm/watchful_eyes_sm.jpg

http://tinyrevolution.com/mt/mt-static/images/iao-original-logo.jpg

the suburban corporate campus architecture of Roche Dinkeloo

http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/2/5/5/brianm/f_rd1m_f726faf.jpg
http://img30.picoodle.com/img/img30/2/5/5/brianm/f_rd2m_1d371a6.jpg
http://img31.picoodle.com/img/img31/2/5/5/brianm/f_rd3m_c76ea45.jpg

Meant that link to go here:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/2644171457_6228ef03f4.jpg

NOAA's new headquarters

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/images/noaa-soc-front2.jpg

Apologies if this is huge...

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/images/noaa-soc-side.jpg

http://www.jointrobotics.com/source/img_pentagon.jpg

http://www.militaryshields.com/images/US_Strategic_Command_Sign.gif

<3 the union carbide hq.

what are those other dinkeloos?

http://www.laurentcurau.com/images/uploads/norad-tracks-santa.jpg

Saucier + Perrotte - Perimeter Institute for Research in Theoretical Physics

http://www.archinnovations.com/images/stories/Projects/Perimeter_institute/perimeter_09.jpg

more perimeter pics:

http://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/research-facilities/saucier-perrotte-perimeter-institute/

Atelier Phileas - Centralised Command Headquarters of the Number 13 Parisian Subway Line

http://www.archinnovations.com/images/stories/Projects_03/PHL_Centralised_command/PHILEAS_Subway_02.jpg

and more:

http://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/civic/phileas-number-13-parisian-subway-line/

i feel daniel burnham and the columbian exposition deserve a mention here:

http://www.essential-architecture.com/ARCHITECT/Court_of_Honor_and_Grand_Basin.jpg

NYT slideshow on suburban corporate campuses: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/02/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/20080302_LANDMARK_FEATURE.html

http://thearchimediaworkshop.org/node/24

i feel daniel burnham and the columbian exposition deserve a mention here:

I would agree, but Worlds Fair architecture design could very well lead to a thread of it's own until someone used Walt Disney and Albert Speer in the same sentence.

As an aside, I just started reading Jane Loeffler's The Architecture Of Diplomacy and pretty much every building in the book could go on this thread.

I would agree, but Worlds Fair architecture design could very well lead to a thread of it's own until someone used Walt Disney and Albert Speer in the same sentence.

well, the columbian exposition is a special case in that the neo-classical "white city" style had a direct, profound influence on american civic institutional architecture of the early 20th century.

it also helps that burnham did the 1901 urban plan for washington, d.c.!

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/CITYBEAUTIFUL/plan.html

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Aliens-Weyland-Yutani_Sign.png

^ just about to post that! Well not exactly that, but just about, this:

http://iwantigot.geekigirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/20070811_letnweyland-yutanicorp.jpg

Trying to find a gravitas-heavy picture of any of Amgen's complexes, but not finding anything. Big Pharm likes to remain as anonymous as possible I suppose.

http://www.blade-runner.it/images/gallery/tyrell-corp/snap059091.jpg

weyland-yutani logo reminds me of wienerschnitzel:

http://www.nnnexchange.com/wienerschnitzel.jpg

on the movie front... not so much gravitas as a "you WILL have fun here" mandate:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/ginabird/OvertheEdge3.jpg

betting there's some fun stuff here (website about supermax/maximum security prisons):

www.supermaxed.com

ahem http://www.supermaxed.com/

NET, precursor to PBS:

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/stckhlmcnd/NET1966.png

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/stckhlmcnd/NET_network_bw_stars_logo.png

http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/George_H._W._Bush_-_portrait.gif

http://www.nycourts.gov/library/ad4/pictures/Hardin_portrait.jpg

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/learned_hand_owwc.jpg