[FP Label] welcome!

[Christopher Linder]

>  task 1: label name

I like the idea of "false profit records" because records, besides
being vinyl circles, are also documents of things that have happened.
This appears to me on two fronts.  1) records are all corporate and
stuff (Department of Records from Brazil...).  2) Records (when
interpreted as documents) could be any form of recorded media.

--chris




On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Toast <toast at false-profit.com> wrote:
> thanks all for your interest in this project!  looks like so far on
>  this list we have me, maer, amanda, chris l., and matt g.
>
>  so there's a couple things i'd like us to decide before spending too
>  much time discussing intent/strategy/structure etc...  since i want to
>  send my CD off to the duplicators as soon as possible so they'll be
>  ready in time for the release/launch party, we need to choose a name
>  and a logo.  hopefully we can mostly do this over email, but a meeting
>  or two would also be fine.  once i've sent the CDs off to be
>  duplicated, we can get back into the fun stuff.
>
>  task 1: label name
>
>  my initial proposal was "False Profit Recordings", inspired by Maer's
>  imprint "OEM Recordings" which released my last CD.  ben suggested
>  that "False Profit Music" is a little shorter and cleaner.  however,
>  now i'm leaning towards "False Profit Records" since it leaves even
>  less ambiguity as to its meaning.  and sure, it's unlikely we'll be
>  releasing any actual vinyl records in this day and age of
>  laptop-obsessed djs, but i just kind of like the old-school sound of
>  it.
>
>  the other idea i had was "False Profit Media".  that would open the
>  possibility of having our artists releasing work that's not just music
>  - video art / motion graphics?  fine art?  clothes?  interactive
>  multimedia?
>
>  task 2: logo
>
>  i like the idea of having a logo that is consistent with the FP design
>  language.  for example, the FP Labs logo that is based on the beloved
>  baroo logo.  a few ideas:
>
>  on the music tip, start with the baroo logo but replace the dollar
>  sign with an eighth-note, a treble clef, or a dollar sign merged with
>  a treble clef or note.  ben suggested baroo with headphones instead of
>  the scratching hand.  putting lines of a musical staff behind baroo's
>  head could also make it feel more music-y.  i like the idea of
>  including a bass clef (we likes us some bass), but i think it might
>  not be quite iconic enough to non-musicians.
>
>  if we can come up with a list of suggestions, i'm planning to ask
>  eric, fp logo designer extraordinaire, to render a few designs for us
>  to look at.
>
>  please post your ideas!  :)
>
>  j
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