Band Logos (Best/Worst)

Hollafame · April 2011

Keep all thins band talk going...

Breez · April 2011

2 of my favorites:

:game_over:

mini · April 2011

mini · April 2011

Jimster · April 2011

Designer: Joe Petagno, 1977. Not so much a rock band logo as it is a visual Armageddon in which the cornerstones of heavy metal all battle each other across one demonic face. Fangs, horns, tusks, chains, the Iron Cross - this one's got it all. Speaking recently in an interview, Petagno says, "I met Lemmy while I was doing some work with Hawkwind. He had just quit and was looking for someone to do a logo for his own project which was of course "Mot??rhead". We discussed various ideas down at the local pub 'round the corner from his management office on the Great Western Road. A couple of weeks later, the now-infamous skull was born. Must have been around April-May of '75."

Cosine PE.

Frank · April 2011

by a far stretch the best band logo of all times.

batmon · April 2011

I likey

DJ_Enki · April 2011

So iconic:

mrmatthew · April 2011

LaserWolf · April 2011

I think the Stones lips was the first successful band logo. (Beyond name/initials on the drum kit.)
Did Warhol do that?

RUN DMC is a great logo, better than most corporate logos.
I have a 15yo friend who sometimes wears band t-shirts from groups of the past.
Since we had a thread about those shirts I asked him who he has and who he sees people wearing.
We decided that RUN DMC and Clash London Calling* were 2 of the greatest graphics and deserved to be t-shirts.

* Which is a nod and a wink to the first Elvis ep/lp graphic.

Mr_Lee_PHD · April 2011

the_dL · April 2011

the public enemy cross hairs is G.O.A.T for me

LaserWolf · April 2011

These guys ruled the band logo game in the 70s.
For most organizations it's important to have one logo and stick to it, but these guys successfully did dozens.

http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1280&bih=841&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=UEueTdT0L8WG0QH9z63KBA&ved=0CDQQvwUoAQ&q=grateful+dead+logo&spell=1

I don't really care for any of them that much.

RAJ · April 2011

SIRUS · April 2011

the_dL said:
the public enemy cross hairs is G.O.A.T for me

can't decide between this or rundmc. epmd kinda looms in the background...

incompletejigsaw · April 2011

SIRUS said:
the_dL said:
the public enemy cross hairs is G.O.A.T for me
can't decide between this or rundmc. epmd kinda looms in the background...

If I had to choose between the two of Public Enemy and Run DMC, I'd side with Public. They were both great designs that have been imitated and reinterpreted and reused by other people and other things, but the image of that target centered on the man always resonated something in me. The logo was a proper introduction to the kind of music Public Enemy made. I knew what I was about to hear when I saw that logo.

May I also add Prince?! The fact that he made his logo a guitar, or his guitar a logo, is simply amazing to me.