Sketches made by Yorgo Tloupas during the interview to demonstrate the simplicity and effectiveness of the gerobase symbol. The gerobase is compared to the graphics of the Petit Palais logo and that of the Philharmonie de Paris, which as you can see, is much more difficult to draw from memory!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Finally the understanding of the concept behind the symbol is rather difficult for the uninformed quidam. Is it a safety pin or an audio tape? Anyway, Yorgo assumes the unexpected interpretations of his logo and it would seem that this humorous bias is completely part of the new Gait\u00e9 com strategy because I learned during our discussion that at one point it was envisaged to have gerobase pretzels for the press conference of the new visual identity...<\/p>\n
One of Yorgo's objectives for the new visual system was to create a sign adapted to the problems of location in urban space to allow the public to better locate the Gait\u00e9 Lyrique in Paris. The proposal is therefore accompanied by a totem sketch at the end of which is perched the emblem in a luminous version.<\/p>\n
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The Gait\u00e9 Lyrique with a G for a \u00ab gay \u00bb (joyful) place?<\/h3>\n In a very \"branding\" approach (initially, a practice which consisted in marking herds with a red iron), the gerobase emblem will be used as a stamp and will come to mark more or less discreetly each com object. Diverted, the gerobase can also be the heart of the visual. Designed using an alignment of fruits, the new visual identity takes seriously the risk of sinking into kitsch so much the proposal ready to smile...<\/p>\n
Cultural graphic identity vs. commercial graphic identity<\/h2>\n I take this opportunity to question Yorgo on his position regarding the opposition between commercial graphics and cultural graphics. According to him, this antagonism is not justified and would be above all a French specificity which pushes graphic design students to overvalue the creation of theatre posters rather than to create a good visual identity for the local SME, leaving an entire part of the \"commercial\" graphic design in the hands of the big advertising agencies... \nCommercial brands impose their notoriety by repeating their logo. This omnipresence of advertising in everyday life is often described as \"visual pollution\". By repeating a symbol \"gerobase\" ad infinitum, is there not a risk of applying the codes of an aggressive commercial branding for a place in the mission is above all cultural?<\/p>\n
Not at all, defends Yorgo, citing the example of the logo created by Jean Widmer for the Centre Pompidou, whose graphics would be very close to those created by Paul Rand for IBM. I let you judge the possible similarities with the illustration below. I add the Montebourg logo as a bonus, but Adidas' would also have done very well:<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nBeyond Yorgo's point of view on what a good visual identity is (but it's a long way from Ruedi Baur's), this very marketing and branding orientation simply seems to be the designer's response to the brief from the sponsor who would have expressed his vision in this way \"we need our G ! \u00bb. \nAnd if there is one point in common between Chevalvert and Yorgo&Co's proposals, it is in the creation of a stylized lettertrine G that is damn practical for declining the brand on social networks, places symbolizing democratized digital ! It is interesting to note that we also owe the creation of the emblem of the Centre Pompidou to the expectations of the management at the time and not to the original will of Jean Widmer who would have preferred to do without. In the meantime, the emblem has become a monument of graphic design and the graphic community even lobbied for its preservation in the Centre's visual system when Ruedi Baur almost made it disappear in 2000 in favour of a system based on a typogram...<\/p>\n
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Doodles of the airbnb graphic charter to encourage users to create their own version of the \"belo\" symbol.<\/em><\/p>\nIs the Gerobase a good logo? Attempting to answer this question in the affirmative or negative would be reductive. One thing is certain: the Gerobase is a logo of the digital age, just as the \"belo\" symbol of airbnb can be. (we reported how airbnb humorously assumed the \"badbuzz\" at the release of the new logo in this article about the BrandNew 2015 conference<\/a>\u00a0in NY). \nIt is both a \"tribal\" sign and a \"doodle\" whose vocation is to create a very strong emotional bond with the public. The more appropriate and diverted it will be, the more it will become a meme and the more it will reach its objective. In this, it is an answer perfectly adapted to the expectations of the customer. For the moment only the logo and the visual of the exhibition \"Lanceurs d'alerte\" have been revealed. All that remains to be done is to hope that the visual system accompanying this symbol will be as Anglo-Saxon as Yorgo's graphic work, where content is always as privileged as form. \nOnly the test of time will allow us to judge the relevance of the logo. Unless the speed of digital evolution forces the Gait\u00e9 Lyrique to review its cultural mission sooner than expected! I'll see you in 40 years or tomorrow to see if the gerobase has made old bones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New visual identity for the Ga\u00eet\u00e9 Lyrique, a nice logo to start 2017. \nYorgo Tloupas, our hexagonal madmen has struck again! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logogaite_animation_old-new-short_v3.mp4\r\n0\r\nvideo\/mp4\r\n","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1681],"tags":[9660,9655,9661,9662,738,9658,9663,1559,9664],"class_list":["post-33080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-logo-news","tag-branding-en-2","tag-culture-en","tag-gaite-lyrique-en","tag-gerobase-en","tag-identite-visuelle-en","tag-logotype-en","tag-numerique-en","tag-paris-en","tag-yorgo-tloupas-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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