Ursa Major Design

logo and animation designs 1992-2010

Ursa Major is many people's favourite constellation. It is also one of the most easily identifiable constellations in the northern hemisphere and has fascinated humans for as long as there have been humans.

I started including it in my drawings and paintings in the 1980s, and made the first hand-drawn Ursa Major logo in London in the early 1990s. When I started producing computer animations, notably Friendly Bombs, I used the Ursa Major Productions logo as a trademark.

By 1998 I had already decided I wanted to distinguish the kind of artistic work which appears on this website davidjohnberlin from my more commercial output. The original Ursa Major website suddenly went offline after my then partner "lost" the domain. It had been snapped up by a mercenary company which then attempted to sell it back to me for several thousand dollars. Eventually I had to swallow my pride and registered www.ursa-major.de.

The story continues...