THE GRECO-ROMAN PLAYDOUGH: A LOGO REVIEW

Often times students want to surpass their masters, but what happens when you’re the master and the student, a sword that sharpens itself as it slices through enemies. With a newfound fondness for Egyptian mythology and Taoism, there was plenty material to work with for the logo, our first few variations flirted with imagery of the Sun God Helios and the Falcon Sun God Ra as well as incorporating Christian iconography of the Son of God, most was steered away from as we expectedly utilized what’s native to us; Greek philosophy making this a Greco-Roman affair yet remnants of the former keep echoing. The conundrum is: how do you make a logo stand as an equal to the name Quintessential Arts, to make a 1024x1024 illustration encapsulate myths spanning centuries. The transition from the aloof philosophy of The Champagne Theory to embodying a Zen like state where we embody philosophies of the likes of Aristotle and Marcus Aurelius whom dedicated their lives to imparting — we’re a product of their discourse and ink more so their play-dough, it seems all they’d written they wrote with the forethought that we’d come to being centuries since they’ve departed the terrestrial realm. Thus, when creating this logo, it was intended to be a reflection of all that we claim to be, believers of a harmonic structure composed of the four mutable elements thought to compose the heavenly bodies in addition to the incorruptible fifth element — æther.