Translating Victory Garden Logos
This 2D animation shows the way in which the logos of Stuart Moulthrop's 1994 Macintosh Edition of Victory Garden has been translated for the 2022 Web Edition. Created originally for the 1991 Editions and carried through to the 1994 Editions, the logo suggests the labyrinth that figures so prominently in Moulthrop's hypertext theory as well as evokes the garden in the work's title. It features the black and white, bitmapped aesthetic of the time. The logo for the 2022 Web Edition retains the look and feel of the original logo while, at the same time, introduces color aimed to reflect the sands of Iraq, one of the major settings in which the story unfolds. The typeface also shifts from a common serif font made available on Macintosh computers of the period, to a contemporary one similar enough to recall the original.