Aside from appearing on products, though, the true testament to the popularity of the MTV logo is the impact that it has helped leave on the music world. The MTV logo has been the standard for a channel that has been introducing us to new artists and breaking barriers since 1981. In thi...
time—and we hadn't locked in the logo's final design yet. I looked at all the versions on my wall, looked down at the board of all the versions that Manhattan Design had tricked up for our 'shows.' Then I blurted out that we'd use all of them—all the time. TV changed every...
Manhattan Design produced about 500 logo designs. “They kept coming back with more.” recalls Goodman. “The closest to being accepted was a squeezable musical note grabbed in the ass by a Mickey Mouse-style hand and the notes came out of the fingers. We liked it mainly because it was ...
(from Orange Is the New Black)in conversation; she is by far the most famous out trans celebrity at the moment. In fact, Cox will host and executive produce“Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word,”a one-hour documentary airing on MTV and Logo TV on Friday, October 17, 2014 at 7 p.m...
The MTV theme song then rang out over footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk with the American flag replaced by the MTV logo. The first video played on the channel was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles, followed by Styx, Rod Stewart andseveral other artists. With that, the 24-...
The MTV theme song then rang out over footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk with the American flag replaced by the MTV logo. The first video played on the channel was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles, followed by Styx, Rod Stewart andseveral other artists. With that, the 24-...
As with short-form music videos, long-form ones had already been an established industry practice for years when MTV first appeared on the scene in 1981. By then, artists ranging fromthe Bee GeestoDavid Bowiehad experimented with stringing an album’s worth of videos together to create a lon...
Madonna performing on the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, September 14, 1984.Frank Micelotta/Getty Images This week,Billboardis celebrating MTV’s 40th anniversary. The channel, which launched on Aug. 1, 1981, had an enormous impact on the music busi...
The MTV theme song then rang out over footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk with the American flag replaced by the MTV logo. The first video played on the channel was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles, followed by Styx, Rod Stewart andseveral other artists. With that, the 24-...
is by persuading rock stars such as Sting to show a half-hour of MTV on large screens before live concerts, instead of a warm-up act. The company is also sponsoring a world tour by the group Bon Jovi and is getting ready to market a line of MTV clothing featuring its television logo...