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Logos

DougieJ's picture

I'm talking early 80's here. What logos (band or otherwise) did you love to reproduce on any available space?

Me:

The Beatles
The Jam
The Police
Adidas. Don't want to get too 'I heart 1982' but their trainers - Samba, Bamba et al, and their holdalls - fantastic!
Rucanor - a school holdall with a three star logo, very trendy in new-town central Scotland at least. Whatever happened to them?

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In the nineties...

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Nick | 3 July 2009 - 6:17am

The Doors

Endless lessons doodling the logo...smilar to the Elektra Records one

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Charlie Gordon | 3 July 2009 - 6:51am
McLongWhiteCloud | 3 July 2009 - 7:02am
MrRadio | 3 July 2009 - 7:42am

In my skooldays (basically, the entire 1960s)

bands didn't have logos - Beatles apart.

I do remember drawing the Fender logo everywhere

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stimpy | 3 July 2009 - 7:52am

I've still got my Ruccanor bag...it's full of tools.

I live 13 miles from a certain central Scotland new-town....what's it called? :)

I used to draw the Rogue Trooper logo from 2000AD and the Metallica logo .

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spinoza013 | 3 July 2009 - 8:15am

Slightly off topic

but you've reminded me of the kid in our school who had 'Cash from Choas' [sic] stencilled on his bag. There was an anarchy circle round the 'A'.

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Captain Underpants | 3 July 2009 - 8:29am

According to his schoolbag,

a mate of mine was a fan of Dire Strits.

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DanP | 3 July 2009 - 1:37pm

Ah yes, every A had to have a circle round it

and every O was turned into the CND sign - those were the days!

My favoutite logos were the Dead Kennedys DK, the Black Flag one with the four black bars and the Ian Dury square "Blockhead".

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Retro Man | 3 July 2009 - 8:42am
stimpy | 3 July 2009 - 8:53am

Nice one...

I'll never be able to look at it the same way now!

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Retro Man | 3 July 2009 - 9:00am

Great post

When I was about eight my grandad made me a wooden pencil box which I set about customising with felt pens. Among the logos I drew on it was, bizarrely, the Austin Rover one (basically just blue and green diagonal stripes). The Mini Metro had just been launched and I even copied the ad slogan "A British car to beat the world" onto it (snigger).

Later I moved on to tracing the Ghostbusters and Back to the Future logos and attempting to copy the logo for Ultimate Play The Game, who, if anyone else remembers, made some of the best games for the ZX Spectrum and were about as cool and mysterious as software houses got in the mid 80s.

I later moved on to drawing Adidas shuttlecock (pretty hard) and the Nike Swoosh (much easier). I still keep my hand in with the latter to this day.

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Hosskins | 5 July 2009 - 12:30am
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