Semiotic Standard For All Commercial Trans-Stellar Utility Lifter And Heavy Element Transport Spacecraft

I got bored one night, and was trying to spend some time getting used to using Affinity Designer so that I could rid myself of all things Adobe, once and for all….  needing a project, I decided to vectorize Ron Cobb‘s Weylan-Yutani iconography, found throughout the world of Alien.

I’d come across the excellent article Alien’s ‘Standard Semiotic’, Pictograms and Icons downloaded the graphic, and went to work.  And then they just sat on my desktop for a year or so, until mentioned in a random conversation, when I remembered them and figured I’d stick em here.

Of course, while looking for the article again, I came across an older article about the same thing on Behance, Semiotic Standard, by Boris (Baris) Tovmasyan, which of course does a much better job, AND, provides downloadable PSD, AI and other files…

sigh… 

oh well, here are mine in all their SVG glory.

Click to download.

Medical

Medical Life Support

Storage Organic

Storage

Storage Refridgerated Organic

Ladderway

Intercom

High Radiation

hazard

Galley

Exhaust

Directions

Cryogenic Vault

Computer Terminal

Coffee

Bulkhead Door

Bridge

Autodoc

Astronic Systems

Artificial Gravity Area Suit Required

Artificial Gravity Absent

Area Shielded From Radiation

Airlock

Refridgeration

Radiation Hazard

Pressurized With Gravity

Pressurized Suit Locker

Pressurized Area

Photonic Systems Fiberoptics

Non-Pressurized Area

No Gravity Suite Required

Maintenance

Life Support System

Ladder Way

Addendum:

Did some more poking about and found Ron Cobb’s website (RIP) and went through his film credits…  I’ve always loved his work, but didn’t quite realise how much.  Besides the films I’d already known he had worked on, I just found out he worked on the original Hitchickers Guide BBC series, Firefly and a ZZ Top cover.  Damn…

Go check out  https://www.roncobb.net