Made by
- Design
- Harry Mabs
- Art
- George Molentin
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- navy blue
- red
- yellow
- cream
Fingerprint: TIMES SQUARE: Theatre-style marquee with round white light bulb border, maker name in dark script on pale yellow band, place name in very large condensed red capitals, receding wall of multicoloured building windows, night cityscape.
The bulb-framed theatre marquee with the place name in huge red condensed capitals and a script maker's name arched above it on a yellow band. Two tall vertical columns of stacked digit capsules in red, green, cream and yellow flanking the marquee. A deep navy starry night sky with a crescent moon above, and a left-hand wall of multicoloured rectangular building windows receding into the distance.
Setting
- Night sky with stars, crescent moon and blue-grey clouds
- City street canyon of dark building fronts
- Receding wall of tall buildings with coloured illuminated windows
Symbols
- Theatre marquee with border of round light bulbs
- Vertical columns of stacked digit capsules
- Grid of multicoloured rectangular building windows
- Crescent moon
- Small illuminated number sign boxes
Lettering
- Very large tall condensed red capitals stacked on two lines for the place name; a flowing italic script in dark blue on a pale yellow band above it; white digits on red, green and cream capsules in the side columns.
Themes
- City nightlife
- Theatre district
- Urban entertainment
- New york street scene
Title on it
- Times square
Text on it
- Williams
- TIMES
- SQUARE
- 0000
- 7000
- 8000
- 000
- 100
- 200
- 300
A tall, portrait-format backglass panel set inside a wide honey-gold wooden frame, painted in a flat, brightly coloured mid-century advertising-illustration style with heavy black keylines. The upper third is a deep navy night sky scattered with small white stars, a crescent moon and soft blue-grey clouds. Centre-top sits a large illuminated theatre-style marquee: a cream and yellow rectangle edged with a border of round white light bulbs, carrying a flowing script maker's name in dark blue on a pale yellow band across the top, and beneath it the place name set in very large, tall, condensed red capital letters stacked over two lines. Flanking the marquee on both sides are tall vertical score panels decorated as stacked capsules in red, green, cream and yellow, each filled with rows of digits (repeated 0s, and 7- and 8-thousand entries). The left side of the panel is dominated by a receding wall of tall buildings whose facades are studded with brightly coloured rectangular windows in yellow, blue, red and green, plus small illuminated sign boxes carrying numbers. Below and around the marquee the scene darkens into a shadowy street canyon of brown and black building fronts with small glowing signage, and a pale yellow-green glow runs along the very bottom edge. No human figures are resolvable in this image.