That Corporate Buzz

Despite the profound foolishness of their thoughts and deeds, I have always maintained a soft spot for the Situationists International because I like their name. "Beneath the pavement - the beach!" was one of their more wildly romantic slogans; but as we city dwellers are all too well aware, the truth is actually "Beneath the pavement - the sewer!" But that's idealism for you.

Anyway, since I have decided to create a logo for this site so that I am no longer forcing Fairfield Porter's painting of the typist into blog prostitution, I began researching SI symbols, hoping to ween a little inspiration from their supposedly high octane blend of design and polemic. Sadly, I found myself extremely disappointed and bored by the lacklustre, unimaginative quality of their artworks. No wonder the movement petered out into a series of unreadable pamphlets. Consequently, I am hiring (at no fee) an illustrator friend of mine to sketch a logo for me from scratch. After much deliberation we concluded that the Stephenesque brand should be represented by  a woodcut-style drawing of a kingfisher wearing an eyepatch and a fez who beak imprisons a wriggling fish wearing an eyepatch and a fez whose jaws ensnare a despairing water beetle wearing an eyepatch and a fez, and so on. What does this image mean? I have absolutely no idea, but I am crossing my fingers for an image that blends the figurative oddity of Hieronymus Bosch with the quaint whimsy of Osbert Lancaster.

Comments

[DarkoV]

A Kingfisher. A noble yet quirky bird. The fish, they look and laugh at the smallness of the body, the largeness of the beak. And shortly, they are an early morning munching. But we are not laughing at your body, nor your beak. We await the new coat of arms. In the meantime, we'll look at the vanishing smallness of our multi-mirrored selfs.

[Bleak Mouse]

I always thought Bosch was the whimsical one.

[rannva]

I am strongly in favor of woodcuts since every cut, so to speak, has a purpose. I wish I could also hire (at no fee) an illustrator friend of mine.

[stephenesque]

I think my illustrator freind would much prefer working for you (at no fee) that he does for me. I have already rejected four of his designs (too cartoony)