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Logo design for YouTube Next Lab.

Tix 2 Go

Logo design for Tickets To Go.

Affordable tickets to theater, arts and sporting events for the general public. A portion of each Tickets to Go sale is directed back into (HAI) Hospital Audiences Inc. programming and services. HAI inspires healing, growth and learning through access to the arts for the culturally underserved. HAI provides cultural access through music, dance, theater and the visual arts, reaching out to the frail elderly, mentally and physically disabled, seriously ill children at health and social service facilities and youth in grades K - 12.

Cable Guy

Came across this CableVision cover from 1982. Yep, that's me at my desk at good ol' Manhattan Design.

Peace Dude

My Woodstock '94 logo design (an homage to the original 1969 logo) is included with other variations of the dove and guitar poster in an exhibit about David Byrd and Arnold Skolnick, who were the two designers for the Woodstock festival posters. Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters will run from April 1 to June 10, 2012 at The Museum at Bethel Woods, which is located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY.

The Highliner

Logo created for The Highliner, formerly The Empire Diner.

Tweet!

I just learned that my Woodstock '94 logo design will be included with other variations of the dove and guitar poster in an exhibit about David Byrd and Arnold Skolnick, who were the two designers for the Woodstock festival posters. The title of the exhibit will be Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters which will run from April 1 to June 10, 2012 at The Museum at Bethel Woods, which is located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY.

The Summer of 1969 I was a counselor at a children’s arts camp on Long Island. I had been hearing a lot about the forthcoming concert in Woodstock on the radio. A fellow counselor told me she and some friends were going to drive upstate to the concert and asked if I wanted a ride. I thanked her for her kind offer but told her that I was afraid it was going to be too crowded.

Summer Days and Nights

Jim Woodard, Managing Director of the Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur, just sent me this photo of him standing next to a sign featuring one of the logos I designed for the event. Thanks Jim.

8.1.81

August 1 marks the 30th anniversary of MTV. You can read my story about the creation of the original MTV logo here.

Roundabout

Round logo for Philip Glass's Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur.

California Dreamin'

Logo design for Philip Glass's forthcoming Days and Nights Festival to take place this summer in Big Sur. Click here for more info.

Big Bang

Unused logo design.

Beastie Byte

Someone e-mailed me this from The Daily Beast Media Gallery: 13 Worst Logo Makeovers. See my post from February 9, 2010.

I Want My... AIGA

AIGA NY is organizing an evening celebrating the creative history of MTV. I will be one of the speakers talking about the birth and early days of the MTV logo. Details here.

Amazon Dot Calm

Watching the news just now I saw a story about last night's Rainforest Foundation benefit at Carnegie Hall. At one point the organization's funky, tribal-looking "R" logo appeared on screen. At that moment I remembered that I had drawn it. That was back in 1989 when Sting and Trudie Styler founded the organizaion. I don't remember how we came to do the logo, but my old studio Manhattan Design was working on a logo and some album package designs for Sting's Panagea Records at that time. Probably we just threw it in.

Flipside

Something to add to all the recent blogging about the "MTV-minus-the-Music" logo. A design I came up with for a 2-sided version of the original logo. The idea was that it could be used on a glass door or window.

I Want My . . . Daily News

I found out yesterday via email from Christina Kinon at the Daily News about the revised MTV logo. We spoke briefly and her article about the new logo scheme appeared in today's paper. A small excerpt:

Frank Olinsky and his team at Manhattan Design created the MTV logo when the network launched. When the change was announced yesterday, Olinsky wasn't feeling much nostalgia. "I had no idea" the change was coming, said Olinsky. "MTV now is a whole other reality than MTV was back in the day. Things change. The fact that it doesn't say 'music television' anymore, that's appropriate."

Hungry Nation

Basic logo design for Next New Networks' forthcoming Hungry Nation show. Final typography and colors to be determined.

So Summer

Just came across the "summer So" design (left) for So Percussion's summer institute. It is an adaptation by Kayrock Screenprinting of my original "Bell Guy" design (shown on t-shirt)

Hot + Sticky

Hot Club of Cowtown logo stickers. Their new album is titled Wishful Thinking. Thanks Elana.

Perelandra Green Bags

I stopped by Perelandra Natural Foods here in Brooklyn this afternoon to pick up some of their brand new reusable/recycleable green shopping bags. These bags feature the logo I designed "very, very long ago" for owner and dear friend, Steve Hoose. The Perelandra logo was based on the small watercolor painting seen above. The bags are only 65 cents so pick up a bunch.