I wanted to create a mock band logo to convey my message, so I decided to call the fictional band 'Orgreave', and incorporated an abstracted silhouette of The Tyne Bridge. The architecture of this bridge is recognisable for anyone from Northumberland or the Tyne and Wear region, which is why I chose to include the famous curve of it.
Despite the fact that Orgreave is in Yorkshire, vast amounts of people from Tyne, Wear, and Northumberland took part in the miners strikes. The decline of our region's shipbuilding and mining industry lead to a lot of localised protests. Because this was such a monumental event in Northern history, the Newcastle symbolism combined with 'Orgreave' is successful in conveying my project.
Line was very important for this piece, as ultimately this symbol has to be reasonably superimposed onto other images, and replicated. I wanted some form of order, combined with a chaos, which is why I chose to include the additional 'dripping' coming from both the top of the logo and the lettering. I also think that the logo traditionally fits with the extreme, and sometimes unreadable, aesthetic of black metal logos as a whole, due to the distortion and shaping of the font. This may be altered over the course of the project, and after enjoying the process of creating this logo, I am considering including more for the final outcome.
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