Okay people, this is old news. Somewhere in the ’90s – the ‘pre-everything era’ I was asked to make so called ‘Bumpers’ in a TV program. This was a program about movies and directors and the short animations were to make cool transitions between items. Its shot on video and I asked my friend Roelof de Groot – so we could do this together. Every 2 weeks, a new bumper was needed. We spent most of our time working hard without getting much sleep in between episodes. We also did the music, by the way.
There is a story behind this picture. A very long time ago, when i was only just graduated from art school, the director of this program Stardust, asked me to make a logo resembling the ‘Stardust’ logo from Las Vegas. So i designed an alphabet in which the titles of the program were made and this logo, that obviously heavily leans on an original.
Yet there was more: when Ir. Vendermeulen started a club night with the same name they just copied the logo and made this lamp from it. I found out when the lamp was actually in use, never knew they had stolen the design. but honestly, since this the demand of the TV program was almost a copy of the original, i did not care too much.