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For this assignment, we had to remake logos to be more fitting for the zombie apocalypse. I did a couple of them for fun.
Brano, for cleaning your brain filled pipes (or maybe to clear out your chest). For this one, I took the Drano logo and just made the d into a b in gimp. It was really easy and I only used the paintbrush to draw a line and the eraser to make the little indent for the b. That was it.
On this one, I just made some brain-flavored pringles. Not too hard of a task. I took the pringles logo and opened it in gimp. Then I used the oval selection tool to delete round pieces in the head, making them look like teeth marks. Then I used the Pencil Tool and outlined the circles in black so there would be an outline just like the rest of the image. After that, I opened a brain in as a new layer by going to File>Open As Layers. From there, I just moved the brain around so that part of it was sticking out, and the rest was within the head. Then I used the layers dialog (control+L) to lower the brain behind the head so it was only visible in the tiny part. You can just click and drag for this.
THEN I rotated both corners of the mustache down in attempt to make the mustache look like a frown. It didn’t really work, but I’ll explain anyway. First, I used the Smart Select Tool to cut around half of the mustache. Then I rotated the mustache using the Rotate Tool (Shift+R). Then I did the same thing to the opposite side, taking special note of angle I had rotated the other half, mirroring it in this half. After some moving around, I completed the connection and used the sharpen tool (Shift+U) to clean up the edges. Unfortunately I had empty space on the face that was uncovered and I just filled that in by first selecting the correct color using the Color Picker (Shift+O, but regular white would’ve worked), and then the Bucket Fill (shift+B) to make everything white again. And that’s how I did it. Unfortunately I couldn’t think of a clever name to change it to. The only thing I could think of was Dingles. And that’s just dumb.
I came across an intriguing blog post recently, “10 Famous Logos Redesigned for the Zombie Apocalypse” on Business Insider, which, as it would turn out, was re-posting the article from inspirationfeed.com (original) by Ben Fellowes. For Hallowe’en, Ben “celebrated some of his favorite logos of all time by re-imagining them, post zombie outbreak.” The originals, along with other items from his portfolio, are posted on his site, benfellowes.com.
Following a nudge from Alan Levine (@cogdog), I posted the information to the ds106 Assignments repository, and a new Design Assignment 785 was born, “Logos for the Zombie Apocalypse.
In support of the assignment description, I assembled three of Ben’s logos into an animated GIF as examples:
Before I had a chance to make a logo of my own, Michael Branson Smith (@mbransons) jumped to the front of the queue and posted “Hello Zombie.” within an hour and a half.
However, in the interim, I had taken a look at some corporate logos online and started to make a list of possibilities.
While it’s kind of a no-brainer (zombie pun), as a first attempt I came up with a re-focused iteration of the online job-hunting site, monster.com:
“Monsters: Re-focused for the Zombie Apocalypse” by aforgrave, on Flickr
I’ll add more to this post as time permits.
Andrew Forgrave discovered these great zombified corporate logos created by Ben Fellows and a new ds106 assignment was born – or better yet undead – Logos For The Zombie Apocalypse!
I felt that logos which employed characters would work best, Ben’s zombie NBA is my favorite. So I did a quick search for corporate logos, and Hello Kitty jumped out at me as a good candidate for losing it’s sweet soul. Zombie Kitty definitely needed to have her little ear tattered a bit from a bite, and I roughed up her nice bow as well. Drawing her little rabid zombie mouth was probably the most challenging, but it was based on this weirdsmith cat. And for final touches the logo was remixed using a Japan font (really) from Dafont.
Great design assignment Andrew, thanks for creating it!
Zombies are EVERYWHERE!! In celebration of Hallowe’en, 2012, designer, artist, and marketing professional Ben Fellowes “celebrated some of his favorite logos of all time by re-imagining them, post zombie outbreak.” You can enjoy his 10 Classic Logos Re-imagined for the Zombie Apocalypse (or check out his site), and then select your own favourite logo and Zombify it. Will your favourite brand be prepared??
