ABC Australia

On this day, 60 years ago, the ABC adopted the "waveform" as our official logo. Before May 1st 1965, we used many different logos on our cars, stationery and microphone badges.

Bill Kennard, who worked in the ABC TV graphics department, got the idea to use the waveform while using an oscilloscope, which creates a Lissajous figure when it plots different but related electrical frequencies.

Bill's idea saved the day because management held a contest to design a new ABC logo in 1963, but the judges didn't think any of the entries were suitable!

While we've changed its look over the last 60 years, the waveform shape has remained the same. If you want to look at some more history, here are some funky 1970s TV idents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1cdv...

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@tomstruct

Classic. I grew up with the glassy shiny logo of 80s 90s

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@MonimelaXtmas

Keep up be strong & love sharing news, as you can notice, information is crucial and vital, is the air we breathe, mostly in web connection. The only way to let news run world wide and... feeling just like a nice global family all together in this virtual parallel universe, let us know what's new in Australia, fans love you guys πŸΎπŸ™πŸ€πŸŽ‡πŸ§¨πŸ‘ŒπŸ€πŸ™πŸ₯³πŸŽ‚❀️

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@mmtravel9726

Who would have ever thought ABC actually started with a cool or unique idea compared to how the channel runs nowadays … let’s be real every logo any useless Australian media company used in the last 40 years was ripped off techno artists and indie graphic designers

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@bluebirdsflyhigh

β™₯️ nyaaa nyaa nyaaaa (that's meant to the the sound of ABC when the logo is drawn on the screen 🀣

5 months ago | 0  

@a_planet_on_fire

You leave the comments open for this..? But NOTHING else, ever... πŸ™„

5 months ago | 1

@rhythmandblues_alibi

I love the series of ads the ABC produced with people (some ordinary, some musos etc) doing the logo β˜οΈπŸ«΅πŸ‘‡πŸ‘†πŸ«΅

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