Nostromo template

Costaguana is thrown into chaos as a result. Afraid of having his fortune seized, Gould orders Nostromo, an Italian sailor known in the area as " capataz de los cargadores " head longshoreman , to keep his silver safe.

Gould orders Nostromo to transport the silver offshore so it can sell across international marketplaces. For his bravery and boldness, Nostromo climbed the ranks to become the official point man for everyone in Sulaco.

Nostromo is considered by Gould and his men to be incorruptible. As Nostromo becomes the formidable town enforcer, ridding thieves and protecting the mine from rebel forces, he helps Ribiera flee Costaguana before he is captured by violent revolutionaries. Heart of Darkness. April 26, Figure 4. Only one was available in , so it should be Pump Bold. But Demi looks closer to the proper weight. And it is also used on name plates for the crew. Designed in the s by Philip Kelley at Letraset, Pump was based on geometry found in Universal — a typeface designed in by Herbert Bayer for use in Bauhaus communications.

For instance, I've also found geometric sans faces like Pump, Burko, Blippo, etc. But like many geometric typefaces contemporary to Pump, it was also embraced by the pop and disco culture of the seventies, and I think that is what really dates it for audiences at present. They likely see it as a product of another time — a past time when things were funkier.

With that little history lesson behind us, we can now get back to how Pump was applied in Alien. The exact weight we see used for the jackets is somewhat questionable. Every instance of Pump Demi Bold I could find on actual letter sheets, had it copyrighted in as well.

So I decided to do a little test, comparing weights to footage from the film Figure 4. The Demi R seems a little narrow overall. And the counter space in the Demi O seems a little big. When I drop a T in there, the Demi Bold looks like the closer match by far. My best guess is this was set in Pump Bold that was trimmed or redrawn by hand, and subsequently made lighter in weight. Or they time travelled to to bring back Demi. Believe what you want here. For the name plates, I found a larger image online Figure 4.

All of the crew insignia can be seen in Figure 5. He was also an expert on the history of military wear, a subject he published a number of books on, and something that would inform his work on Alien and other science fiction films.

For instance, the Nostromo patches were inspired by military uniform buttons of the French Restoration Period Figure 5. After consultation with Ridley I experimented with some variations; some without the rainbow and finally, one with the rainbow that was eventually used. For the registration number variantly on screens and in dialogue , it looks like he avoided any Pump reference there, and went with something less stylized. Outside of military references, I also wondered if it could have been inspired by insignia used in space exploration.

It embraces man and extends to the tree and hydrogen atom, emphasizing man's pivotal role in the conciliation of technology with nature by a humanistic application of our scientific knowledge. Beyond the biblical story of the flood, the rainbow appears as a symbol in other cultures, which could offer a clue to other possible meanings.

In Greco-Roman mythology, the rainbow was considered to be a path made by a messenger, between Earth and Heaven — and the Nostromo moves resources between Earth and Space, right? Similarly, in Norse mythology, the rainbow is a bridge between Earth and the celestial realm of the Gods. Interesting to think about, but all speculation on how it could relate. There were also two different background colors used for the Nostromo patch — grey and dark blue.

The dark blue version was available on a collectible cap though Figure 5. So it seems possible they were more concerned with justifying the design decisions they made for their Alien merch, than squaring things with the film. And Brett may have accidentally had a dark blue patch for a fraction of a second — in his death scene, apparently the FX team used a prepared hat with a paper patch over a hole that could be easily punched through, and people have pointed out that it looks like they used the wrong version in that instance.

Figure 5. Source: invaluable. Source: Starlog Magazine , Nov Source: Starlog Magazine , June First, a larger set of the wings Figure 6. The light blue on white embroidered patch is the most common, worn by most of the officers. We also see older braided versions of these wings — a gold braid version worn by Captain Dallas, and a silver braid version worn by Executive Officer Kane.

The form of these braided versions is more organic or natural in its outline, as opposed to the newer versions, which stay truer to the more geometric Weylan-Yutani logo with its overall rectangular shape. The Authorized Portfolio of Crew Insignias explains the braided versions as older and having been replaced with the newer embroidered style, so this implies senior officers Dallas and Kane have been with the Company for a good amount of time. Reinforcing this in the film, these braided wings also look more tattered and worn around the edges, than the embroidered patches.

There are also smaller wings Figure 6. See the Research entry for Weylan-Yutani to view screen images covering all variations of the wings insignia. Figure 6. Figure 7. It features red bars. The crew also display small brass badges, denoting their role and technical function aboard the Nostromo. There are four types. A circular badge, featuring horizontal bars in red, is used for Executive Officers. Final Cut Pro. DaVinci Resolve. All Video Templates. Music Tracks.

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