![]() Somehow anything found in American diners (even the modern ones) seem to fit in there too … they seem to be stuck in a permanent fifties timewarp, no matter how hard they try to get out.Īnyway, I designed the logo and uploaded it here a couple of weeks back … and I thought that would be the end of it. After looking around at a whole bunch of fifties pop-culture graphics, I quickly concluded that it’s actually pretty easy to boil down fifties design cliches - if it reminds you of late-night black and white TV, it’s in, and if it looks like something that could be found as a chromed ornament on a chunky vintage American car, it’s DEFINITELY in. Or so I thought, until I set myself the challenge of designing an Atomic Age Call of Cthulhu logo (just for fun). While most of the periods covered by the existing CoC supplements all have an obvious characteristic “style” (art deco for the 1920s, and various Victorian styles for Gaslight), it’s not so easy to pin down a specific “fifties” look. I am also quite intrigued about how the book will look, and how “Atomic Age-y” they will choose to make the graphic design. Anybody who’s in search of info on the upcoming book should scoot over to this CthulhuWiki page which collects all the info released to date about this book. Anyway, I am quite intrigued to see what they eventually come out with and how the various authors characterise the 1950s (dark and noiry, or schlocky B-film monster film). ![]() It’s kind of a setting that the game hasn’t really tackled before in any serious way (notwithstanding the couple of recent 1950s Trail of Cthulhu scenarios). As I mentioned on this blog before, I’m quite intrigued by Chaosium’s announcement of an upcoming book of Call of Cthulhu scenarios set in the “Atomic Age” of the 1950s.
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