@gitta: Brief: It’s for Citizen Media Watch. Would like to refer to Brad Pit’s character in Twelve Monkeys. No control – all change.

So I lot of you have asked for logotypes inspired by crazy creepy characters, what’s up with that? Usually clients ask for a logo that feels traditional but yet contemporary or something oxymoronic like that, but this is a new challenge because I don’t really believe that you want your logos to indicate that you’re paranoid schizophrenic mass-murderers. By the way the request to have crazy people as inspiration comes mainly from bloggers, I might do some stats analyzes on that later.

About todays logo, citizen journalism and twitter are making us all into town criers, peeping toms or wannabe Woodwards and Bernsteins. This is a good thing but also a bit creepy, just like monkey lovin’ Brad Pitt in Twelve Monkeys. After the usual first drafts of ugly (that for some reason we designers must visualize just to see how horrible they really are), I decided to go less ransom note. After all citizen journalism is about doing creative stuff with gadgets and not digging though newspaper recycling bins. I pictured the primal use for the logo as a on screen header for the blog so I didn’t care that it’s hard to print and wouldn’t work in really small sizes. Design time 2 hours.

Download the Citizen Media Watch logotype »

I you like my project please tweet about it. I still need more briefs, for instance I’d like to a redesign of a logo for a charity organization. The music in today’s screencast is another from Gentle Touch – Fascination.

Oh and I almost forgot: @nordgren who orderd The Shoreditch Hacker House logo has already used it at the Music Hack Day. Watch this:

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