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Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: bwood on June 08, 2009, 01:10:28 AM
Hey all,
I stumbled across this tonight while looking for something. It was posted back on May 20th, but it's kind of an interesting read and I thought I'd post it. It's from designer Michael Brown. Apparently, he was the one who "redesigned" the logo for TPiR when Drew took over. I guess some of his submissions that didn't make the cut ended up as designs on the set in places. It also appears he has done work for WoF.

Price is Right Logo Design Facelift (http://\"http://www.boringloadofgarbage.com/2009/05/20/the-price-is-right-logo-design-facelift/\")

Portfolio of work (http://\"http://frankxray.com/home.html\") (I'm digging the 3rd Giant Price Tag)
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: clemon79 on June 08, 2009, 01:14:55 AM
[quote name=\'bwood\' post=\'217463\' date=\'Jun 7 2009, 10:10 PM\']Portfolio of work (http://\"http://frankxray.com/home.html\") (I'm digging the 3rd Giant Price Tag)[/quote]
Concur wholly. I SO wish that design would have made it onto the show. Something about that asterisk always screamed Price to me. (It might be because I watched the show back in the day when said asterisk denoted the winning One-Bid.)
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: Jeremy Nelson on June 08, 2009, 01:33:04 AM
I like the second Price tag better, and I'm now wondering how the first beat out the other two. That asterisk/daisy is a Price trademark, not the hypercycloid.

Either ways, the man is great at what he does.
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: bwood on June 08, 2009, 01:37:19 AM
[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'217466\' date=\'Jun 8 2009, 01:33 AM\']I like the second Price tag better, and I'm now wondering how the first beat out the other two. That asterisk/daisy is a Price trademark, not the hypercycloid.

Either ways, the man is great at what he does.[/quote]

Oh yeah #2 and #3 are far more superior than #1. Also, if you want to see what the 'shopped pic of Drew holding the trophy on the blog page looked like before it was edited, click on "Doctored Pics" on the Portfolio Page and hover over it.

I will agree that this man has some talent indeed.
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: tpirfan28 on June 08, 2009, 08:21:05 AM
LOVE the second tag...the third, while the Goodson mark is the highlight, just doesn't look that good to me.

Should have changed the tag to that one when season 37 started and they ditched the hypocycloids.
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: NickS on June 08, 2009, 10:04:41 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'217464\' date=\'Jun 8 2009, 12:14 AM\'][quote name=\'bwood\' post=\'217463\' date=\'Jun 7 2009, 10:10 PM\']Portfolio of work (http://\"http://frankxray.com/home.html\") (I'm digging the 3rd Giant Price Tag)[/quote]
Concur wholly. I SO wish that design would have made it onto the show. Something about that asterisk always screamed Price to me. (It might be because I watched the show back in the day when said asterisk denoted the winning One-Bid.)
[/quote]

Agreed on the asterisk... but I'm for a mix of #2 and #3 - the Stardust starburst could go and the giant asterisk move from #3 to #2?  Sold.

Plus - semi-OT... Michael gets major points for being the designer of "The Soup" logo... and being a motion graphics designer as well.  Four Spaghetti Cat points for Mr. Brown.
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: BrandonFG on June 08, 2009, 10:08:27 PM
Definitely #3, esp. if the old-school asterisk were to light up. The second one has too many asterisks for me...
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: vtown7 on June 08, 2009, 11:46:06 PM
[quote name=\'TeppanYaki\' post=\'217563\' date=\'Jun 8 2009, 10:04 PM\']Plus - semi-OT... Michael gets major points for being the designer of "The Soup" logo... and being a motion graphics designer as well.  Four Spaghetti Cat points for Mr. Brown.[/quote]

In that case, I'd also like to award him a bowl of chicken tetrazinni...
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: Yogi007 on June 09, 2009, 10:55:04 AM
[quote name=\'vtown7\' post=\'217573\' date=\'Jun 8 2009, 11:46 PM\'][quote name=\'TeppanYaki\' post=\'217563\' date=\'Jun 8 2009, 10:04 PM\']Plus - semi-OT... Michael gets major points for being the designer of "The Soup" logo... and being a motion graphics designer as well.  Four Spaghetti Cat points for Mr. Brown.[/quote]

In that case, I'd also like to award him a bowl of chicken tetrazinni...
[/quote]
And don't forget a side of sweeeet potato (Oprah's "favorite")
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: Neumms on June 09, 2009, 12:24:20 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'217464\' date=\'Jun 8 2009, 12:14 AM\'][Something about that asterisk always screamed Price to me. (It might be because I watched the show back in the day when said asterisk denoted the winning One-Bid.[/quote]

I wonder why those were there--on Cullen's version, the asterisk lit up when a bidder froze. Was there ever a thought they'd be more than one-bids in Contestants' Row?

I love that third pricetag, too. Without the asterisk, it would be a cleaner, simpler graphic for the big doors. The asterisked background of design #2 would be nice on the turntable area, in place of the hypercycloids and the squares.
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: CJBojangles on June 09, 2009, 03:39:29 PM
I always thought those asterisks to denote the winner in Contestants' Row were just to make them look a little more like the originals. Sort of a throwback to the Cullen series.
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: Don Howard on June 09, 2009, 04:03:30 PM
Huell Howser was considered for the hosting job?
Twenty-eight years later, is his work co-hosting Wedding Day that memorable?
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: pacdude on June 15, 2009, 08:57:28 PM
We've been noticed!

http://www.boringloadofgarbage.com/2009/06...me-show-forums/ (http://\"http://www.boringloadofgarbage.com/2009/06/15/greetings-to-the-game-show-forums/\")
Title: Blog post about logo design...
Post by: bwood on June 15, 2009, 09:25:42 PM
Well, that's pretty cool!