Award Winning Logo Design Team
A rock band simply cannot be successful without a good music logo design. Your success is dependent on perception of the people you will work with, including venues, music industry professionals, and listeners. The rock band logo design tells these people crucial tidbits of information about your band, including your style, your genre, and your level of professionalism. This is not an area where you can afford to fall short.
Because the rock band logo design is so crucial, it is always surprising when bands attempt designing a logo themselves or leave the matter to an amateur online logo creation site. After all, you would never try to build your own guitar or microphones. Indeed, having a professional band logo design is key to finding any level of success in the music business. Here are a few steps you can take to get the attractive band logo design you need to have a chance in this industry.
Hire a professional. There are a lot of choices, but it will be easy to narrow them down because you need a particular type of person with a specific range of experience. First, you need a graphic artist from a reputable company who has experience in band logo design. Second, the person designing a logo for you must be willing to listen to you and get a feel for what your band represents. There is no way to make a suitable logo without getting to know your band. This is why online logo creation always falls short.
Brainstorm. Before you contact a professional, you and your band mates will need to brainstorm ideas. Are there any band logos that you like or dislike? The professional designing a logo for you may benefit from seeing these. Are there shapes, colors, or images that you feel drawn to or that you think represent who you are as musicians? These cannot always be included in the logo, but they are good pieces of information to share with your graphic artist. Before your first band logo design meeting, you should have a good idea of what sets your band apart from every other band in your genre.
Talk to others. Sometimes you are too close to a situation to adequately describe it. This is why it can be helpful to ask friends and fans what they think about when they hear your music. If your fan base has certain positive impressions about your music, including them in your band logo design can help to tie your logo to your body of work.
As you can see, designing a logo is a complicated job. You need a logo that you can use as a brand, one that will go with you from the small time to the peaks of success. Your band logo design is the first impression that many important people will use to judge you. While it’s essential to let your music do the talking, your art may be forever silenced by a bad choice in logo. Don’t leave your future to chance by letting an amateur or an impersonal online logo creation machine design your logo. Hire a professional and give yourself an opportunity to succeed.
Here are the top 10 Rock Band logos of all time:
The Beatles
The Beatles are unquestionably the best and most important band in rock history, as well as the most compelling story. The Beatles logo is some what similar to the Godfather logo by Mario Puzo. The font, the layout and then black background all make it so similar. I must say the Beatles logo is not as exciting as their music was. But I guess the logo was designed at a time when “graphic design” was not considered too much when coming up with a brand image.
The Rolling Stones
When the Beatles ceased to exist in 1970, the title of “World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band” fell with very little dispute to the Rolling Stones, who by then were in the middle of such a wondrous creative peak that they might have challenged the Fab Four for the title anyway. The Rolling Stones logo is quite exciting. It is unique, strange and brings out the kind of emotion as their music does.
U2
U2 are a rock band from Dublin in Ireland, and the band consists of Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass & guitar) and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion). The U2 logo is not so inspiring. In fact there is not brand consistency when it comes to their logo. I have seen several versions of the logo in action.
The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, jazz, psychedelia, space rock and gospel—and for live performances of long musical improvisation. The Grateful Dead icon is an awesome skull with a lightning bolt inside it. What makes the skull unique is the angle at which it is perched.
Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground was an American rock band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. The Velvet Underground logo tries to be funny with a simple image of a banana drawn out in a realistic style. Personally I do not find it funny and it does not seem to relate to the kind of music the band plays.
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals), John Paul Jones (bass guitar, keyboards), and John Bonham (drums). With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal bands. I quite like this text based logo, perhaps because as a teenager back in the 80′s I really liked their music.
Ramones
The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, in 1974, all of the band members adopted pseudonyms ending with “Ramone”, though none of them were actually related. Not sure what to make of this logo. There seems to be a United States government emblem with an eagle holding a baseball bat in one claw and some sort of leaves or branches in the other. The slogan says: “Hey Ho Let’s Go!”.
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are an English rock band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. A so-so logo. Actually looks like clothing label logo with it’s conservative and rather drab font, the black background and small icon with in the the letter “O”.
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created by Bob Marley in 1974, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers. I actually found it hard to get a good logo of this music band. The official website does not seem to have a logo and on the internet I found several different versions so I am not sure what to say about this one.
Sly and the Family Stone
Sly & the Family Stone is an American funk, soul and rock band from San Francisco, California. Originally active from 1966 to 1983, with varied lineups, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music. I really like this logo. It is quite reminiscent of the “peace” style of designs that came about in the 60s and 70s. This is a good font treatment to form the icon.
Yes, the Velvet Underground should have asked a professional to design their logo. Instead they used the banana one, designed for them by Andy Warhol. And since when did Andy Warhol know anything about graphic art or advertising?