Wipeout v1įor me personally, I vividly remember the day that my friends and I all waited outside HMV in Brighton, to buy the game.
Wipeout is peak Designers Republic it’s confident and bold, it references its pedigree and it has an ordered, other worldly feel to it. Wipeout is F1 with hovercraft, it has no story but the setting is established and the experience is rich. This is branding at it’s best, the fictional made tangible and relatable. In fact, each track is littered with adverts for in game teams and fictional products alongside real world Red Bull adverts. Each team would have its own logo and brand language, this follows through to trackside advertisements sponsor logos and background billboards.
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Typeface Agency: Liverpool based developer Psygnosis asked Designers Republic to produce a series of brands for each of the games futuristic racing teams. Here’s a couple of quotes I’ve pulled out: The Typeface Agency has a great article: “On how the Designers Republic sculpted childhoods” which looks at the impact the branding and audio aspects of Wipeout had on making this game such a phenomenal success it’s well worth a read.
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Wipeout Game Logo History 1995-2017, Making of Wipeout Logo Design Plus Various In-game Graphics by Designers Republic and other Designers and Fans The Typeface Agency The Designers Republics groundbreaking work on the graphic design for Wipeout, which included everything from packaging to typographic selection in the game menus, has been noticed by many design and gaming publications over the years since the very first Wipeout. The first release of Wipeout for the Playstation 1, back on September 29th, 1995 was a pivotal moment for Sony and the millions of Playstation gamers. The Designers Republic (also tDR, and styled as The Designers Republic™) DR, a British design studio, designed the Wipeout logo and stunning game graphics for this groundbreaking console game first debuted on the Sony Playstation 1.
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