Kybalioncropcircle needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 32 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
Uriel's Machine
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This is a logo design for a band. A progressive heavy metal band.
None. Just make it Badass because it's for a band!!!!
Uriel's Machine is a progressive metal music project that incorporates very beautiful melodic elements, crushing heavy riffs and complicated technical progressions. It's complicated, simple, orderly and chaotic.
Uriel is the angel that brought technology to mankind. So "Uriel" should be soft, elegant, but really cool looking and represent the lightness of the human spirit, "machine" should be technical, mechanical, soulless and complicated like A.I is becoming. Uriel's the angel, he soul, the machine is humanity's darkness and dependence on technology.
It's a philosophical, spiritual and heavy metal project so the band logo needs to look awesome. It needs to be beautiful and dark, sharp edges and elegant. Reference a quick google image search for "death metal band logos" or "heavy metal band logos" for inspiration.
Some of the inspiration for the music and concept range from:
- the Antykathera mechanism
- Magic mushrooms
- DMT: the spirit molecule
- The Urantia book
- The Mayan calendar
- Biocentrism
- Valerian and the city of 1000 planets
- The matrix and AI enslaving humanity.
I've included the two best band Logos in my own personal taste (Opeth and Mastodon) to serve as a guideline for inspiration. Maybe approach Uriel's based LOOSELY in the Opeth style and Machine in the Mastodon type format. This logo needs to be original and not a ripoff of what some bands have done before. Also, I'm not a fan of including imagery in the background. The words need to work together and look great on their own. Thanks in advance for all your efforts!
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