When is a band logo not a band logo? When it’s a banana perhaps.
Commercials director Theo Delaney uncovers the little-known story behind The The’s enduringly edgy band logo.
We caught up with Horace Panter, artist and bass player with The Specials, to talk about how the band’s ska man logo came about.
The Ramones logo was originally an exercise in graphic subversion. These days, it’s about as rebellious as a trip to Sainsbury’s.
‘Logo-a-gogo’ author Rian Hughes shares his top ten dos and don’ts for designing band logos.
Bands FC is a place where the graphics of bands and football collide, with engaging, amusing results and plenty of goal-mouth incident.
Why have a common logo when you can have a royal crest? Queen’s resplendent, extravagant band marque could only have been designed by Freddie Mercury himself.
We know ... this isn’t strictly a band logo. But our friend Rick Banks has an excellent new book out on UK club graphics, so we’re bending the rules a bit so he can wax lyrical about one of his favourite club logos — Ministry of Sound.
Baxter & Bailey Creative Director Matt Baxter meets Chris Bigg, the designer behind the bewitching, bewinged Pixies logo.
Microdot’s Brian Cannon reveals how a chance encounter in a lift with Noel Gallagher led to a longstanding creative relationship and the birth of the Oasis logo.
Smiley face or typeface? Will the real Nirvana band logo please stand up.
It may look like it landed from space, but there’s more to the Aphex Twin monogram story than meets the eye, reveals Fontsmith Type Design Director Phil Garnham.
The Monkees’ guitar-shaped logo perfectly evokes the band’s kooky Sixties image. It was designed by Nick LoBianco, king of lunch box art.
Love were not only America's first multi-racial rock band, but probably also the first band to sport a regular logo.
Fontastic! Can you identify these groovy Sixties bands from just one letter culled from their logos?
Banned in Germany, embraced in the US, the KISS logo still divides opinion, more than 40 years after its first appearance.
The death of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington was respectfully and typographically marked with a subtle change to the band’s logo.
The good people at Dorothy have designed a rocking pair of alphabet posters based on the first letters of 26 band logos. Take your pick from ‘Alphabet of Rock’ or ‘Alphabet of Alternative Music’.
They asked for something ‘barbaric’, and Stylorouge duly delivered. The dancing Jesus Jones logo is still in service nearly 30 years later.