The Keith Haering (sp.?) logo for FALSETTOS was great.
The original SWEENEY TODD logo is quite memorable.
Here's an oldie but a goodie: The original MY FAIR LADY, with Henry Higgins as a puppeteer pulling Eliza's strings, while from above, God (or George Bernard Shaw)contols Higgins' strings.
I always thought the Seussical logo and publicity photos were very creative. It's like all of the Dr. Seuss characters taking over New York City. I loved it!!!
"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth."
- Barbra Streisand
I love the 'Wicked' logo. Visually, it's such a great show. I also love 'Miss Saigon' so much more since that thread pointing out there was a face as well as a helicopter. It's a very well done logo. ^_^
I think the Cats logo is very creative, simple yet elegant and reflective of what the show was... a dance musical. I like the Miss Saigon logo too but not the helicopter part. I like the logo in type with the sun behind the "i". These logos were what made me want to become a designer which I am now.
I know there has been tons of talk on here about logos so I dug up this older thread to post on it. I was looking at the WICKED logo today and noticed something fairly obvious that I had just never noticed before, and wondered if others had caught this as well.
- The Elphaba figure has red lips, something the actual character wouldn't. - The Glinda character has green in her eye(s).
I saw this and thought how clever! Representing how two very different people have a litle bit of each other in them (or how they end up effecting each others lives, etc).
I am also a fan of the Rent Logo, the older one at least not the Rent Live. It was catchy with the "No Day But Today" - I also like well what I think is catchy...
WICKED...so much happened before dorothy dropped in Wedding Singer - get ready to party like its 1985.
I made a list of all your faults, it was quite detailed and lengthy too and when I read it through I missed you. Your like a classic Eagles song, you just cant help but sing along even though it sometimes gets annoying too. I just know I want to be wherever I can wake and see you there next to me. **High Fidelity**
Love is what I do **The Wedding Singer**
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Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about Wicked. It's not a favorite show of mine, but I've always really liked the poster design--it was so iconic from the start, they practically own that shade of green now. I hate what they've done to it for the West End.
The original Sweeney logo was great--there's something really tounge-in-cheek yet really unsettling about those figures--but I really don't like the new graphic design. Sure, you're walking down the street and you glance at that color blue and you know it's a Sweeney poster, so I suppose it's successful in that sense. But there's something about that color and the mettalic letters and the eyes in the razor that seems too overdone for such a minimalist production. They should have gone with something darker and more to-the-point in keeping with the new staging. (Plus, the font they use for the reviewers' quotes on their posters is really, really ugly and doesn't fit at all...a classic show like Sweeney deserves something less generic.)
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
Clumsy - I hate to say it, I really do (because we all know I'm as big an ASU fan as you) but I really don't think that there's nothing "most creative" about ASU's logo. =(
I am NOT a fan CATS but theirs is excellent, as is Miss Saigon (after I was shown the helicopter/face, haha). Wicked, yes, has excellent eye-appeal, but I'm not sure it falls under most creative. I also think the London logo loses some of that eye-appeal. Falling under the "eye-appeal" umbrella, for me personally, is not the logo per se of Piazza but the cd cover, with the golden-yellow background and Clara silhouetted. Ahhh.