Monty Python inspired branding for new publication

Entertainment & The Arts

Logo/Branding is for a publication based out of Nashville, Tennessee with an irreverent, comical slant in the vein of Spy Magazine (from the 90s), Quillette (today), and Monty Python.

Masthead should look as good in B&W as it does in color.

We want to recreate the old masthead feel of a newspaper. Our site design/layout is inspired by, as our name implies, pamphlets. The masthead should have a hand-drawn or engraved feel to it. Something you'd see on an old Renaissance pamphlet, but with modern signs, symbols, etc. We also like the collages of Rauschenberg and the "brutalist" branch of web design emphasizing style over substance (see: https://www.awwwards.com/awwwards/collections/brutalism/). One idea was to have "PAMPHLETEER" sketched onto a banner flapping behind a hot air balloon, glider, or airplane. The mood of the publication is off-the-wall and pretty zany. We'll overflow with sardonic humor and wit, so we want a masthead that communicates our playfulness without being too goofy (a difficult line, I realize). Below is a kind of mood board to riff off of. The Cream colored webpage design is where we are going with the current site design/layout so you can understand how the masthead can easily slide in there. We enjoy the messiness of modern, brutalist design. The collage like nature of some of those word marks. More than anything, we want to convey energy.

Every design category has flexible pricing for all budgets. Logo & brand identity pack starts at $599.