Jon Hicks’ New Logo is The Joint
Jon Hicks (of Firefox icon fame) has a new logo, and it’s freaking awesome. Hicks took his inspiration from Kazuya Sakai’s Filles de Kilimanjaro III (pictured), a tribute to Miles Davis that he glimpsed in the Blanton Museum of Art while he was in Austin for SXSW this year. The new Hicksdesign logo is an electrified scalectrix mobius strip psychedelic double-cheeseball and it’s totally fantastic. You’ll have to hit his site if you want to see it but these images should put you in the mood. It has totally got my juices flowing; only very recently I have been thinking about the possibility of developing Zero to One-Eighty with a particular seventies aesthetic that’s stuck with me like glue since childhood—I think of it as the “brown and orange blob retro glass” style. Other than that, it’s kind of hard to describe, and it’s really hard to find anything that looks remotely like what I’m thinking about. These “mondo circles” (below) are the best I can do, but imagine them even blobbier in much warmer colours: browns, reds, yellows and oranges, and with shifting colour densities as you walk past them. (I think this was the pattern on the wall of a place we used to go when I was a kid.) If anyone can help me identify examples of this kind of work, or suggest places where I could go looking for it, that would be rad.
If you’re interested in retro stylings that are going somewhere modern, check out Hicks’ new logo. My feeling is that it will date pretty well. According to his blog he’s going to be experimenting with colour variations, so I can’t wait until he modifies it with autumn colours later in the year. The web site is also slated for development as Hicks finds his groove with the new look. Tubular.
It’s all getting a bit goatse for my taste :(
I like Hicks’ work, but don’t ‘get’ his logo. It doesn’t really say anything to me…
April 17th, 2006 at 5:42 pm #
Oh gross! Nasty bastard.
What’s a logo that does say something to you or that you “get”?
April 17th, 2006 at 8:19 pm #
Dead Reckoning » Archive » That Seventies Logo
[...] I thought I was going to have to wait much longer to see this, but further to last week’s launch of the new Hicksdesign logo in response to which I made my nostalgias known, Jon Hicks has released a new desktop wallpaper that is totally my Most Favourite Ever. Now that’s saying a lot because I’ve been so fond of my Relax desktop that it was very tricky to decide who should get what pixels. For now I’ve settled on the reverse of what’s displayed above: Relax on the left and Bloody Hippy on Abe at the right.* Brown all ’round. Now BH will be with me wherever I go, and the couch—certainly the most comfortable I’ve owned—will be there when I get home. This whole theme also goes perfectly with the new Goldfrapp album, which is throbbingly wonderful (and perfectly circular). I’m imagining the Bloody Hippy’s central logo spinning left and right while the background logos pulse like speakers to “Ooh La La.” How about that Jon? Not that you haven’t got enough on your plate right now. Actually, that could make a great first motion project for Yours Truly if I could just get my hands on a copy of Final Cut Studio for slightly less than the cost of a return trip to Australia. One can dream. No, wait: Elena just whispered four sweet words: “After Effects trial version.” Juicy, juicy… [...]
April 29th, 2006 at 7:43 pm #
Dead Reckoning » Archive » Six Months in the Sphere
[...] If you’ve been following recently here are a few things you’d already know: In January I pulled out of school. In February Elena and I were amazed by Brokeback Mountain. In March cyclones Larry and Glenda caught Australia in a pincer attack, while the Ricky Gervais Podcast hit a bit of a slump. And in April Shoham and Michel got married, I switched web hosts and Jon Hicks released some new designs that rocked my world. What will the future hold? Well, I will be on the job market soon (knock on wood) so there might be a story or two gestating there. I’ve also got a couple of film and TV-related posts in the works that I plan to finish up and roll out the door in the next week or so, and the new Placebo is just so fantastic that its story must be told. [...]
May 9th, 2006 at 8:44 pm #