February 12, 2010

012/365: Mid-Week Links

MTV changed its logo

In a way, however, MTV can claim to have started the whole ‘flexible identity’ thing. When the original logo was created by Manhattan Design in 1981, no corporate colour guidelines were given. Instead (as one of the designers Frank Olinsky explains, here) both the colour and the materials in which the logo was rendered would be changed with each application, making it as supposedly eclectic as the music played on the channel.

Logorama

Oscar nominated short.

Interview with someone that’s tried to steal your money

One of those Nigerian Princes that aren’t actually Nigerian, or Princes.