Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jun 29, 2016 at 12:50pm UTC

Today’s blast from Mistigris’ long and illustrious past: this RIPscrip vector logo dates back to the hirez disk of our 3rd anniversary collection, MIST3YRB, from October 1997. It was drawn by ts of TeklordZ, a Hawaii-based group we’d long danced around attempting to join forces with (intended as one of the first stops of our Mistigris World Tour, it died just before we had a chance to trial-realise this ambition), now known better as mattmatthew of blocktronics.

For a decade now it’s represented Mistigris on its Wikipedia page after Sodium spruced the entry up with relevant artworks, so for most of the modern period this swell picture has been our primary representation to the world. You could certainly do worse!

Though the theory has been debunked, I like to imagine that the detail work on the surface of the letters represents the skyline of downtown Vancouver (the city that has been the traditional homebase of Mistigris) as seen from the West Side, with a backdrop of the North Shore mountains behind them. It’s a lie, but a nice one!

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jun 29, 2016 at 12:50pm UTC