A Symbol Reimagined: Merging Tradition and Technology in the Doomsday Clock – PRINT Magazine

A Symbol Reimagined: Merging Tradition and Technology in the Doomsday Clock – PRINT Magazine

Industry perspective by industrial design educators Juan Noguera and Tom Weis. The Doomsday Clock symbol, originally designed in 1947 by Martyl Langsdorf for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, had a simple symbolic purpose: The closer we are to midnight, the closer we are to the destruction of the world as we know it. The Bulletin was established by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the very scientists (physicist Alexander Langsdorf…