How the WipE'out" logo came to be

[Lion]

Stumbled across this Kotaku article (https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2019/04/23/the-making-of-wipeouts-logo-an-all-time-classic) this morning.
Really cool insight into the ideas that drove the design.

[chri5]

Just spotted this, here's the thread on twitter. https://twitter.com/y2k_aesthetic/status/1072867440223080449

[Smoothly Does It]

"Why the ‘ and “ marks? They denotate the minutes and seconds used in racing and implies speed."

I now feel reeeally stupid for not having realised that in all this time; interesting stuff nonetheless!