Who designed it.
P cant be that good a visual artist, so who made it up for him?

Maybe if you check inside of the album cover you may find your info. I know that the whole egyptian theme was inspired by mayte, so that is why he made it that way. Prince might have had a little say so with the designing..but not much.

I don't know.

But I never really liked the curly thing (don't understand why it's in there).
I think he should have kept using the original symbol:

Jochem said:

I like it as it is now, thats why im intressted in who made it.

I don't know.
Probably somebody good, though.

Knowing prince and how he always comes up with new things, he probably designed it himself. Maybe not actually drawing it out on paper, but he probably instructed someone on how he wanted it done..just a lucky guess!

Jochem said:

I heard that someone had actually suggested this design to him,
but then that he ended up just running over it with his motorcycle.



Or am I thinking of a cassette tape that belonged to Wendy & Lisa.....?

Jochem said:

The curly bit is a horn. Symbolizing sound/trumpeting about man/woman/god.

R

Rorywan said:

Is that your interpretation?

Jochem said:

No.

Do a search here on the soapstone symbol from alchemy and you'll get some theories.

I like it so much I had it tattooed on my arm!




Does this mean I will be sued now? Mmmmmm
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iceblue07 said:

That chocolate ice cream? looks fanatastic....

PopeLeo said:

Yeah saw that before, very interesting. Personally I reckon, prince wanted a new logo based on his male/female thing he had been using for years. His intrepid graphics team did logo/symbol research, found that soapstone thing and then post rationalised it's meaning. "yes Prince it's got man, yeah..woman and god of course and look we got the symbol for sound in there and the top looks a bit egyptian don't you think? you like egyptian at the moment don't you? a bit like an inverted eye?" "Do you like it P, do you?"

sold.

I did read an article in Q once which broke it down to the god/male/female/trumpet/egyptian eye. But who knows?


r

nevermind
[Edited 8/1/08 4:14am]

I Love the curly thing, and i've got the one from Emancipation on my forearm!

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Rorywan said

That chocolate ice cream? looks fanatastic....[/quote]

Its chocolate mouse, my daughter never managed it all as it was so rich!

All that really change was the hornpiece...through the center...as far as inspiration goes...Prince was already inspired to use symbolism...that connected men and women...and I am sure the Egyptians that left their work around...don't mind that Prince kept it going...

When people talk about inspiration...it kills me, when anyone acts as if stealing a line or a logo...is anyone else's but God's in the first place...

God pours everything into the hearts of men and women...and if you don't believe that then I can assume you are an atheist.

Tame said:

Yes but an inspired man can have a unique and inspired concept. Which can be stolen by an uninspired one.

..and if you don't believe that then I assume you are a book keeper.

iceblue07 said:

Oh no!!! You better watch out. Prince is a-suin'!!

I'm gonna get it tattooed somewhere.. my hip or lower back.

Gimmesomehorns said:

I don't know, but I sense that he may possibly be a fairly descent visual artist....just a gut feeling I have.

He did design one of his album covers, but I can't remember which one now.
Maybe someone else in here remembers.

obsessed said:

He actually painted the 1999 cover by hand.

Gimmesomehorns said:

Yes, I remember now...there was a thread in here quite a while back
discussing the symbolism and objects of each of the letters and numbers.

iceblue07 said:

You might get sued by the health police for feeding junk food to your kid...lol, just kidding