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Sideshow Symbols?
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:25 am
by Vee
Hi All,
I'm doing a logo for a travelling showman client and I'm wondering what you can suggest as symbols of the travelling showman, sideshow or amusement industries?
Examples; Carousel Horse, Ferris Wheel, Laughing Clown
Any suggestions are much appreciated
Re: Sideshow Symbols?
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:11 pm
by Zamperla
hi Vee - I think you covered most of them in that opening sentence!
I've always thought Wittinslow's logo was by far the best example. It was strikingly simple. (then again Witts were rumoured to have copied theirs from Conklins, Canada)

Re: Sideshow Symbols?
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:34 pm
by HUSSRAINBOW
Wittingslow's will be forever AMAZING!
moomba especially will never be the same without it!

Re: Sideshow Symbols?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:42 am
by Top Gunner14
Yeh the Wittingslow logo is very symbolic and you know who it is straight away when you see that logo. Remember at Hawkesbury you would see the logo on the top of the arm on the Ranger, now that's no more with it just having that planet or watever painted on there instead
Re: Sideshow Symbols?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:55 am
by princess
Funny that clowns faces are used a lot as symbols, there are so many people out there who hate clowns. Carousels, Ferris Wheels, they have been used over and over again.
Re: Sideshow Symbols?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:57 am
by Vee
princess wrote:Carousels, Ferris Wheels, they have been used over and over again.
Indeed, this is what I am trying to avoid

Re: Sideshow Symbols?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:24 pm
by princess
I know that the big dippers get a run, but what about two loops, with a train on the inside, upside down

Just one thought.