"The Spike TV logo captures the sense of personality that will surround the first network for men," said Albie Hecht, president of Spike TV.
"Since the network now has a name like a person, it made sense to have a signature as the logo," said Trollbäck & Company creative director Laurent Fauchere. "Everyone contributed two or three signatures and we picked the best combination of male attitude and character."
If its suppose to be a male signature shouldn't it be illegible?
if "Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people," then, considering the remarks coming out of Tinseltown about Iraq, "Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded." John McCain "Iraq will not be defeated" in the war, Iraqie Ambassador Mohsen Khalil told a news conference in Egypt. "Iraq has now already achieved victory - apart from some technicalities."
If it's supposed to be all MANLY and MALE, why does it look a hell of a lot like the logo of Spiegel, which sells mostly women's apparel and accessories?
"You may be wondering why I have been making so many references lately to Fox News. The reason is that it is now my cable news network of choice -- because if I’m going to watch the news and be lied to, I want it to be ridiculously obvious that I am being lied to." -- Center for an Informed America, Newsletter #34
EEKK!!! *As shutter goes down my spine* Thank network executives for this wonderous movement. *Prays for it not to last more than six months to a year* I personally could stand the blasted sound "OF THE NEW T N N." This I'm going to love to here the voice over guy flub up this and in the middle of the promo "Who the F--- names a cable station this?"
Actually that could be used as a selling point for it except like above they'd have to censor it.
(edited by CRZ on 8.5.03 0927) Banned Once! The independant thought alarm went off, knew to much about b*tching.
Could be the hierarchy has something against diarrhea of the keyboard?
In the words of a dear friend of mine "You treat me like B*tch, I treat you like a B*tch, and now do you have anything to say about it, A$$Clown?
I guess it would have been much to complicated an idea to just use a drawing of a spike as the logo. Ideas like this by the brain surgeons running the network (remember, RAW's ratings will definately be going up now, stated last week by the President of the network, as the ratings fell 10% the first week after he said it) cause me to long for the old TNN. Bring back the Grand Ol' Opry, the Tom Wopat show, and the Dukes of Hazzard. I mean, if your going for the young male demographic, the Dukes of Hazzard is the perfect show: High speed car chases and Catherine Bach in skimpy clothing.
Let me see if I understand this. The Red Sox #2 starter is now the closer on days he doesn't start? And it's only May? And I thought working on the doctorate would have been the thing to cause full blown alcoholism.
Something's not quite right here. All-male, all-masculine, all-testosterone, all-the-time... is NOT the image being presented by that logo or the example 'health' and 'news' graphic in the article.
Instead this is looking like some sort of suave, upper middle class business executive's information channel. The sort of channel that carries a briefcase and has prostate concerns. The kind of channel Patrick Bateman would probably watch. It's the polar opposite of the obnoxious 'in your face' sort of attitude everybody was assuming a channel called Spike TV would have.
I still haven't seen any commercials for the return of Ren and Stimpy. They're supposed to premiere June 26 at 10:00, and a classic Ren and Stimpy will air at 11:30.
"Oh my God, Brian, there's a message in my Alphabits! It says, 'Oooooo!'" Peter Griffin "Peter, those are Cheerios." Brian
That's maybe the least manly network logo ever. PAX has a manlier logo. Nickelodeon has a manlier logo, resembling a football or basketball or perhaps manly vomit, depending on the version. Oxygen has an exciting exclamation point, making it a manlier logo. Lifetime has a manlier logo - you could at least kill somebody with the lowercase f, if you had to.
I guess they didn't want to go for the obvious big ol' phallic railroad spike but...somebody's signature? Couldn't it at least be written in blood? I was guessing it would be something along the lines of the PBS logo, with the profile of some guy's head. Only it would have had a shotgun blowing the guy's head open, and the brain and bone bits exploding from the back of his head could have formed the words "Spike TV". The thinking there would have been to brand the network as exploding onto the scene and blowing away the competition, taking no prisoners.
Also, it would be a ninja's head.
Ah well. Now that "The NEW!! TNN" is gone, they'll need to find something ro replace the "TNN: Jumpers Take Their Glasses Off" stopgap. Maybe their edgy corporate slogan to go with the logo could be "Spike TV: Screw the Palmer Method!"
And looking at the press release: Logo Design: Trollbäck & Company, New York, Los Angeles
Designers: Laurent Fauchere Nathalie De La Gorce
It took TWO people to come up with that?? Geez. The moemnt I heard the new name, I automatically had a vision of a logo in my mind. It wasn't a railroad spike but it was pretty spikey. Neon green too...ok, maybe that's a bit much. But still, I know simple is sometimes better but with a name like "Spike TV" you have to be over the top, eccentric, have something that just SCREAMS the name. That screams nothing at me right now. It's more of a very light, hoarse, whisper.
So, yeah, I don't really like it. Maybe i'll grow use to it after awhile but I really don't think it'll fit the image they're trying to project.
call me bored, lazy, dumb, a loser, whatever, but I just thru this together in 5 mins. and IMO is leaps and bounds better then that logo: http://www.rubenquevedo.com/uberlou/gfx/spikelogo.jpg my rendition of the Spike TV logo.
(I would tweak the text and the colors more but this is just something thrown together to get across a point)
Did you see that episode where Spike married Snake and Emma's all OH NO but then it turned out that Spike was pregnant so Emma decided to stop being a bitch after a lot of soul searching and making ugly faces... well did ya?
It was way better than the "Marco Comes Out" episode.
Wow. Nothing says "MANLY" like cursive writing, eh?
When you want to have an "all guy" television station, you really shouldn't have a logo that looks like it was designed by an interior decerator. But maybe that's just me.
And don't expect a Spike Dudley push out of this. Sure, if someone with any kind of intelligence was booking, they'd probably have Spike cut promo's saying how RAW was HIS show because it was on HIS channel. "The channel named after the greatest wrestler of all time! SPIKE DUDLEY!!!"
Instead, Dudley will probably make his Spike TV debut by jobbing to Rodney Mack on HEAT. Oh well.
Originally posted by OMEGAAnd don't expect a Spike Dudley push out of this. Sure, if someone with any kind of intelligence was booking, they'd probably have Spike cut promo's saying how RAW was HIS show because it was on HIS channel. "The channel named after the greatest wrestler of all time! SPIKE DUDLEY!!!"
Instead, Dudley will probably make his Spike TV debut by jobbing to Rodney Mack on HEAT. Oh well.
It's worse than that. Remember WWE's paranoia about 2 people with the same name? I expect to see the debut of...
Originally posted by GrubbyLongJohnsthat is pretty..uhh...dull.
And looking at the press release: Logo Design: Trollbäck & Company, New York, Los Angeles
Designers: Laurent Fauchere Nathalie De La Gorce
Well, there you go. It's the French. It's always the French. I'm sure La Resistance will just love the logo.
"next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn's early my country tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- iful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter they did not stop to think they died instead then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"
Originally posted by Mike SweetserThe logo for Spike TV has been unveiled:
"The Spike TV logo captures the sense of personality that will surround the first network for men," said Albie Hecht, president of Spike TV.
"Since the network now has a name like a person, it made sense to have a signature as the logo," said Trollbäck & Company creative director Laurent Fauchere. "Everyone contributed two or three signatures and we picked the best combination of male attitude and character."
Talk amongst yourselves..
This is hilarious! (If it were deliberately funny, it would be brilliant.)
Vsp, you are dead-on correct about it being the Spiegel Catalog logo!
A couple of other quotes from the same article: Spike's creative brief for the upfronts and logo hinged on the network's new demographic: aspirational young men, aged 18-35.OK, "aspirational" (m-w.com) is technically a word, but I don't think I'd have gone out of my way to pull it out of my thesaurus. (Y'know, given that the first 2 of 3 definitions refer to gasping & sucking.) The lifestyle shoot featured men from the network's demographic in a variety of everyday situations, from lounging around the house to barbecuing with friends.I bet these photos look exactly like every 18-35 year old male Wiener lounging & barbecuing. Spf2119 jauntily pointing barbecue tongs at CRZ & Redsoxnation. Hogan's My Dad & Excalibur having a rollicking good laugh, lolling on NetHackSlasher's sofa. Jeb & Dean enthralled with an intense moment during Raw. Perfect! :-)
And the fact that my browser won't load Trollbäck's web page just caps the whole thing off.
-------------------- Edit: Made link to Merriam-Webster less broken.