Are you a musician? Yes, you need a logo. In addition to good sound, you need a good visual identity, and the basis of a good visual identity is a good logo. In the history of music, there is practically no big star who did not have a great logo! From the Rolling Stones to Snoop Dogg. Here are some important things to pay attention to, and some of the examples of the best logos of world-famous musicians.
Before you get into the process of crowdsourcing logo design, these are the important things you need to keep in mind (and that you need to highlight in the design brief that you will send to 48hourslogo designers) if you are a musician.
Colors
The sound is in a close, inseparable connection with the colors. It is important to determine the frame, that is, the range of colors that are describing your music well. The term “color of sound” does not exist for no reason, you as a musician certainly understand and feel it very well.
Fonts
As much as the musical instrument must be perfectly tuned, so much the font in the musical logo must be perfectly determined. Nothing in the logo will express the energy of particular music as a font.
The font practically sings in the logo! Colors, icons, elements, shapes, lines … these are all accompanying vocals in relation to the font.
Invest 1000% of your energy in choosing the right font or even more – in creating a brand new font!
Icon or symbol
You have to have a lot of luck in this field. Simply, iconic brands are a rarity, but an icon, that is, a symbol, is something you should definitely strive to have in your logo. Some music logos consist only of symbols.
A symbol, that is, a certain original unique sign can be comprehensive in the most perfect way in terms of representing the energy and message you want to send with your music and creativity.
A good description of the music genre
If you are strictly genre-specific, then this will not be a difficult task, however, modern music is in most cases an eclectic combination of various genre styles, so it is very likely that you will have to work hard to define the genre of your music properly. Choose your words carefully to best describe your music and the message it carries!
Be sure to provide a link where your music can be listened to – it will be very helpful to designers!
The target group, that is, the ideology and philosophy of your music!
This is an issue that is also closely related to the issue of the genre of your music. Music often carries a certain type of ideology, ie lifestyle, so in reggae music, for example, we have ideas that favor a lifestyle based on messages of love, peace, freedom, and most often we have a strong political message in terms of combating the rule of multi corporations, big business and what is called globalism. And all of these elements are important in logo styling and design.
The logo is the one that essentially communicates with the target group, ie a certain profiled group of people, so it is very important that the designer, when designing the logo, has in mind the ideological or philosophical message that particular music genre carries.
Let’s take a look at some of the best in the world!
METALLICA
ROLLING STONES
SNOOP DOGG
PRINCE
JENNIFER LOPEZ JLO
RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS
50 CENT
“Take your time, hurry up!”, as Kurt Cobain said. Write your design brief well, launch your 48hourslogo contest and get our awesome designers to work on your new logo!