Thread by @cabel

Here's a quick story about design.

When I was a kid there was a funky, late-70's mall in downtown PDX called "The Galleria", in a converted department store.

The Galleria had an equally funky logo that I always liked as a kid — but also always made me feel a little weird.

The logo reminded me of other visuals surrounding my childhood, like the 7-Up signs at the corner store, or the "Pinball Number Count" sequence on Sesame Street (one-two-three four five!)

Eventually The Galleria closed, and later it became a Target, and the logo was history.

One day, fairly recently, I was talking to my parents about this lost logo and how it made me feel. And my dad goes down to the basement, brings this piece of paper up, and hands it to me.

Yeah. Turns out, my parents designed The Galleria logo.

Let's take a quick moment to appreciate the "eraser tool" in this "source file".

Then: this year, they began remodeling The Galleria AGAIN, as the headquarters for a local architecture firm. I was reading the news and there was an image.

And what's did I see on the wall behind the reception desk render?

Look closely. Everything old is new again.

(Epigloue: after switching from Rubylith and Letraset, to a Tektronix puck-based mainframe I loved as a kid, to a Macintosh, my folks still do design after all these years. There's a few hours left in a Kickstarter for a Portland puzzle they're making: kickstarter.com/projects/nance… )