Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo — Page 2

#26

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 12:48pm

It's their font from any fake internal advertisement. Stock 60's font. Well, not stock, but period specific.

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#27

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 12:57pm

ohhh got ya. "log" "powdered toast man" etc

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#28

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 1:14pm

Looks like something my little brother could make on word. does not look very pretty, and it doesn't get all hyped for the movie.

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#29

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 1:21pm

I think they will change it. Its probably just a place holder logo.





-we hope.

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#30

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 2:19pm

Well, if the colors in the logo seem muted, it's probably because the pictures of the actual film look bland and colorless. The colors in all the pics i've seen of the film look bland compared to the Broadway production. I'm not saying this is wrong, and in fact, it's probably more historically accurate, but if the colors in the movie look bland, why shouldn't the colors in the logo?

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#31

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 2:37pm

I dont mind muted colors... in fact I really like them- and I think it will work well with this movie.

Especially the color palette used here:


But I dont find this font great in keeping with the rest of the movie. I also wouldnt really describe these colors as that muted, in fact I dont even like this color palette. Orange? Lavendar? Green? Dark blue?:


I think I am far too opinionated, especially over something as trivial as a logo.

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"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
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#32

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 3:00pm

I don't know, I don't think that the logo is that awful. Granted it's nothing great either. It's looks really average, and it looks like they didn't put much thought into making it.

#33

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 3:20pm

well, i may be in the minority but i think its a huge improvement over the previous logo. The previous one looked sloppy- the shapes behind the letters didnt look deliberate, the font wasnt crisp and the starry shapes reminded me more of the jetsons than anything else. This new logo looks much more polished and appropriate.

#34

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 3:26pm

hmm...why don't they just use the one from the stage production?

#35

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 3:45pm

it would be better if the letters were not stuck together

#36

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 3:49pm

It reminds me of a roll of lifesavers.

#37

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 3:50pm

Probably so as not confuse audiences whether or not they are seeing the stage show or the film (on billboard and poster ads, anyway). Personally, I could care less about the logo.

#38

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 5:56pm

ILoveMyDictionary-
Haha - I agree.

I think it is just hard to come up with a logo better than the Broadway one. Oh well...

#39

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 6:12pm

The Broadway design was a true advertising and merchandising logo -- this appears to be nothing more than a place-holder on the website. I think it is a deliberate choice not to move into high gear this far from the film's completion and release. I'm sure the final logo will feature more than just lettering.

And not to threadjack, but does the Dreamgirls logo strike anyone else as "Jersey Boys, but with women, and focusing at butt level"?

#40

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 6:47pm

God, it really does look like a cartoon.

I am so scared of this movie. I know it's going to be crap. I just know it.

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#41

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 6:58pm

have a lil faith. gee.

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"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
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#42

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 7:10pm

I like it. It's better than the other one posted earlier. If you look at the few production photos, most of the colors are muted, so it fits. And it's a hell of a lot better than the dreamgirls logo.

#43

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 7:54pm

They already had a new logo. That could have been the placeholder, but instead, they changed it to this.

That tells me that there was a design meeting and this was the chosen theme to go with. Whether they will change it again due to negative feedback or not remains to be seen.

But I doubt this was intended to be another "placeholder."

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--Aristotle

#44

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 7:58pm

They already had a new logo. That could have been the placeholder, but instead, they changed it to this.

That tells me that there was a design meeting and this was the chosen theme to go with. Whether they will change it again due to negative feedback or not remains to be seen.

But I doubt this was intended to be another "placeholder."

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"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

#45

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 8:16pm

Capn- you are right.

This is indeed the new logo.


Who knows if they will find they need to change it.. but for the time being- its this logo.

I am sure it will grow on me.

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"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
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#46

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 11:07pm

Why can't they just use Nikki like they did Marissa and use the similar logo as to the show.

or do they not feel like paying Nikki what they pay Marissa when the logo is used?

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#47

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 11:41pm

I think when its isolated on that page with the one background it doesn't look very colorful, but when you clipped it out and placed it in a regular situation the colors were a lot brighter. It's not horrendous, but not the GREATEST LOGO EVER MADE or anything.

#48

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/12/06 at 11:52pm

Overrater said the New York Times.

#49

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/13/06 at 1:15pm

yuck.

#50

re: Hairspray Movie Official Website Unveils New Logo

Posted: 12/13/06 at 2:54pm

It's better than Dreamgirls.

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