Harri Larkin - Initial Conversations

I got a phone call earlier from a friend asking if I could mock up some logo ideas that her friend had had for their bands logo. The band is called Harri Larkin and is based in Bristol.

The description I received was that they wanted a chess piece as the symbol, and the text to say either the full band name or just the letters HL. I chose a knight as the piece to use because it's arguably the most illustrative of all the chess pieces and is asymmetrical, which makes it more of a symbol and less of a badge. 

Whilst it followed their instructions it ended up looking very corporate and clearly wasn't suitable for a band at all, especially given that they really like The Ramones logo and wanted to use it as an influence, something they told me afterwards.

It was a bit frustrating that their guidance led in the complete opposite direction to where they actually wanted to go, so I told them to leave it with me a couple of days and I'd send them something back that was more suitable.

More information about this stage of the live brief can be found here extended practice blog.