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I’m a huge fan of the Designers Republic, the studio responsible for Wipeout’s brilliant aesthetic. Being from Sheffield, they also worked closely with Warp Records on a bunch of beautiful album artwork for Aphex Twin, Autechre and others. The studio shut down in 2009 sadly, but the website popped back online a couple years ago. I hope they keep making stuff! It seems slim that there will be more Wipeout, however. Sony Liverpool dissolved awhile ago

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Still have this on my bookshelf: https://www.amazon.com/Sampler-2-Contemporary-Music-Graphics...

It's got tons of TDR work in it, in addition to several other studios / designers. I could definitely see the TDR aesthetic resurfacing with all the 00s revival stuff going on right now.

Yes, they were awesome: https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/61558b...

They also did a lot of album art for the Gatecrasher Trance discs

So fresh in 1998/99

https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/gatecrasher

Don't forget Pop Will Eat Itself. They did practically all of their graphics.

Thanks for that. Was a big PWEI fan in the late 80s/early 90s but had no idea of their connection to games/graphics.

TDR’a graphic design is still some of my favorite to this day. It was so iconic and instantly recognizable. Their album art for PWEI’s “This Is The Day…” and WARP’s “Blech 2” compilation for example are incredible.

Someday I want to rice my linux desktop to look like the Wipeout interface style.

is Enlightenment still a thing? It would make a good start?

https://www.enlightenment.org/

I believe they were only responsible for wipeout 3.

Designer's Republic? They were definitely involved in the original design for Wip3out.

The packaging and manual alone still feel fresh after almost 30 years IMHO:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/wipeout/cover-art/gameCoverId...

You can see the little "I love my DR" logo on the back cover:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/wipeout/cover-art/gameCoverId...

It truly felt like "an experience from the future" back in 1995 - and to some extent still does, for this fan at least :)

I think you misunderstood the parent.

What's the non-misunderstood interpretation, because I also don't get it? If it's about Studio Liverpool, that's also wrong since Studio Liverpool was just a rename of the original developer Psygnosis after it got integrated deeper into Sony.

The original parent claimed that Designers Republic only collaborated on the design of Wipeout 3 (also known as Wip3out). The user replying countered this with proof that they collaborated on Wipeout 3.

All those links are to the first game, not Wipeout 3.

If the confusion stems from me writing 'Wip3out' I'm sorry about that, just a habit of mine. I've always written out any WipEout title as Wip3out (the capital 'E' looked like a horizontally flipped `3` in the original DR design). I was referring to the source leak related title, the original WipEout (1) of course (see cover art links).

Oh, ok. That totally checks out and is my bad for further confusing an already confusing situation.

> It truly felt like "an experience from the future" back in 1995 - and to some extent still does, for this fan at least :)

This fan as well. Really fantastic, innovative stuff.

TDR was responsible for the logos, team design, manual, and packaging of the first WipEout, working through XL to Wipeout 3. The feel and character their work gave to those simple polygonal wedges was impressive, and that graphic design perfectly laid out the ultra-futurist vibe with global half-kanji minimalism.

We'll never know for sure, but I've always thought that the success of the franchise really stemmed from their influence at the beginning.

They were involved in all of it with box art and logos, but I think it extended to the game UI [1] and more in the 3rd game.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOYY7w5VUN0

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