Company logo

Here are some examples of music company logos that I looked at in order to create my own in a  suitable manner:

A common trend between these logos is that they're all simple designs in black and white. I also quite liked the idea of using one letter in a distinguished font on their logo as Motown did. Columbia records and Atlantic records both used easily recognisable images too, thus giving me further inspiration. All the logos have the companies name next to the image representing their company. Easily readable fonts are a common sight amongst these, as to be clearly visible to those who are hard of sight.
Here is the logo I designed.

This logo contains the companies name, an easily read and recognisable font, and a logo. The logo is of two bass clefs put together creating the image of a heart. Inside the heart is the letter A in the Jazz LET font. A stands for adagio, the company name. Adagio and the bass clef are things related to music. Adagio means slow, which is relevant to the type of music the company sells/would sell. Jazz is also a genre of music. Already, music is heavily referenced and implied, but unlike the logos I analysed, the word records is underneath my company name - this clearly shows that my company is a record company. The heart shape of the bass clefs implies some form of love, whether it is a love for music, or the meaning of the songs. The song I am making a video about is a song about lost love, so this is relevant.

The image above was the finished product. Before hand, I had created a less satisfactory logo, which was this.

At this point in time, I was pleased with the logo's font and the general concept, but the the letter O in a different font in a larger size was repulsive; Mr Allan, my teacher also did not appreciate how low down the image was in the frame, so for then on I centralised the image and replaced the O with two bass clefs.