Friday, November 27, 2009

Men Without Hats: Logo #320

Designed by Monica Froeber for the band's 1980 "Folk of the '80s" release - although actually this logo is a rallying cry against men with hats, but it's so simple and eye-catching with the black and the red arranged so sparingly that we can forgive the semantic shortcomings and wonder whatever happened to...Monica Froeber! Men Without Hats had two rather fine pop singles - "Safety Dance" and "Pop Goes the World" - and if that's all they ever made and then vanished, they would remain avatars of perfect pop. Instead - look out casinos! Here come Men Without Hats! Cue Metallica in one, two...

1 comment:

RyGar said...

Not sure if your ever take requests, but I'm sure Aesop over at the Cosmic Hearse blogspot might share a tale or two about the Hickey logos that were branded upon my teenage brain years ago.