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Paul McCartney is said to have already scribbled the logo, when the Beatles hadn’t played a gig. They are suitable as tattoo templates, T-shirt motifs and key rings, are sometimes conceptual strokes, sometimes random. Here are seven information about band logos.
1. Bitter pill
How much the fans hang on the original, John Lydon has to experience these days. As a result of a legal dispute with designer Dennis Morris about the trademark rights on the iconic signet of his band Public Image Ltd., he designed an adaptation and replaced the pill logo with a angular, optically like a rubber pent from the Bauhaus era. Quote from the social media shit storm: “Never let the singer to the colored pencils!”
2. Show flag
The band is shattered in various subgroups, but its logo of the most obstinated statics: the black bars of the US hardcore pioneers Black Flag. Greg Ginn founded the band in 1976, by his brother Raymond, who gained the surname Pettibon, came the name idea and logo, a stylized black flag, the four bars a symbol of their angular sound. Not the only stroke of genius Pettibons, from him also Sonic Youth’s Goo-Cover, one by one from the Foo Fighters and the artwork of the band off! around Keith Morris, singer at the flag and the circle jerks.
3. Typical Typo
When graphic designer Lisa Orth designs the cover of Nirvana’s album Bleach, Gerry Powells Font “Onyx” is located in the set machine, a time -outdated coincidence. There is always legal disputes about the Nirvana Smiley. Graphic designer Robert Fisher also claims to be the author, like Jocelyn Susan Bundy, who sees her grandfather, the British illustrator CW Scott-Giles, as a spiritual father. It officially comes from Cobain itself, the fluorescent sign of the strip club “The Lusty Lady” in Seattle had inspired him.
4. Only train station
In keeping with the music, bands of extreme genres like Death or Black Metal are very different-the more illegible, the better. The logos of formations such as Cattle Decapitation, Sanguisigabogg, Darkthrone or Waking the Cadaver look like X -ray images from bushes, tipped out ink barrels, telephone scribbles from the atrial – where they probably also come from.
5. Originals
How a classic band logo emancipates itself from the original shows that of Run DMC most impressively. In the mid-1980s, Stephanie Nash, graphic designer at Iceland Records, had designed the striking signet with the two red lines on a black background, in between the band name in white capital letters, for a T-shirt campaign. A little later it appeared on the cover of the single “My Adidas” for the first time. Today the design acts as a message variable, in this country the FCK NZS, which is widespread by omitting the vowels, is the best known adaptation.
6. Without words
The British graphic designer John Pasche is said to have received a mere 250 pounds at the beginning of the 1970s, in return he designed the most famous band logo ever-the “Tongue and Lips”-Viget of the Rolling Stones. Inspired by the Hindu goddess Kali, as a reference to Bigmouth Mick, revised by Craig Braun, not even the name of the band is necessary-the recognition value is also so immense. The Klötzchen empire LEGO launched it in 2022 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the band in 1998 to build up.
7. Backward message
A mirror -inverted B is sufficient at Sweden’s finest to ensure optical recognition. The historical books call the single cover of “Dancing Queen”, published in August 1976, as the first use of the ABBA lettering to this day, in fact he appeared in this form three months earlier, on the cover of the French Compilation Golden Double Album (disques Vogues).