I like when the different PBS logos are animated instead of just prints. The final PBS' "P" however is the most simple, but iconic logo that treasures childhood's memory for generations.

it's just good to know that even the greatest designers' ideas were rejected many times- makes it easier to deal with mine lol

"He doesn't look happy, but at least he looks hopeful." *eagle suddenly melts* "Nope, he looks dead. Not big deal."

@kadenvanciel9335

8 жыл бұрын

Did any of them think that?

@SuperLenny1975

8 жыл бұрын

It is a joke. Kaden Vanciel

@kadenvanciel9335

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah.

@travelsonic

8 жыл бұрын

"OK, who left the wax eagle under the heat lamps again?" XD

@miles7247

2 жыл бұрын

lol

This sequence of sounds and the lil man’s head would captivate me as a child to this station. I knew fun programs would come on any minute and I felt safe. I would wonder where these images were coming from and how the place looked like. Strange feeling as an adult finding answers to questions I had thought about long long ago.

It’s a good thing they settled on the p-head. Many of the other ideas would have seemed dated much sooner. The p-head is very versatile, even with font changes and such. It still works today, just look at the set of the PBS Newshour

THE BEST LOGO EVER MADE

@heatherferreira4225

6 жыл бұрын

I'm torn between this one and WGBH from roughly the same period. Try as I might for the life of me I can't decide which one I love best.

@beefydie2010

Жыл бұрын

Bro p head is based

2:24 P-Head Squashes B and S

This logo was the branding for PBS Digital Studios from inception to 2019. No concerns of baggage...40 years later it seemed to work well for them.

The animation sequence as well as the music makes me think of animations by Chuck Jones and his team back in the 60's-70's days when they made cartoons.

@alalahoward1299

5 жыл бұрын

same as Looney Tunes

They have to do all original and alternate PBS logos.

Herb even used his very own fonts ITC Avant Garde and Lubalin Graph for his PBS logo wordmarks.

"If We Turn the face Around he is gonna have his nose right up to B" his nose suddenly squashes B and S a little "If he gets it closer more, B & S Will Be Pushed Away"

@gustavoobom899

6 жыл бұрын

And Text are Gone And P-Head was a Split

Ironically, the logo looked at the right side in the future.

This segment came from Media Probes - Episode 6: Design

But by 1984, Chermayeff & Geismar took Herb Lubalin's P from the previous logo and had it faced right, plus adding another outline of the face.

@ClassicTVMan1981X

2 жыл бұрын

C&G were also the designers of the Screen Gems "S from Heck" (1965-74) and NBC's present Peacock logo (since 1986).

Since the old man said that the logo happened 10 years ago, the video must have tooken place in 1981.

@L1701

2 ай бұрын

Herb Lubalin died in 1981.

"How about turning the P around?" "No, if we turned it around the P's nose would be right up the B." P-head: (*extends nose*)

Bonus(I think):The animation was the text moving up, then the blue P-Head, the yellow B, & the green S all together rushing in, but PBS said,"No."So they went for the 1971 animation we now know today.

@MsGracefire30alsoedc4

7 жыл бұрын

No, this is just about how they made the logo, not how it formed.

@Spike3939-yx

18 күн бұрын

B IS ORANGE

@kadenvanciel9335

18 күн бұрын

@@Spike3939-yx Perhaps a mix of both colors while still leaning towards yellow?

@Spike3939-yx

17 күн бұрын

Ok then?

PBS Was Called Nation Educational Television

It’s official, P Head’s original name was the Blue man

@thebluescratchy2009

3 жыл бұрын

little man

@supermadnessbrosstudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebluescratchy2009 or Everyman

@Server2008

Жыл бұрын

hi tph

@ThePowerpuffHotline

Жыл бұрын

@@Server2008 epic find moment

@Server2008

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePowerpuffHotline yes

2:24 BRO P-HEAD KISSING B & S 💀💀💀

@YellowBallOfficial

9 ай бұрын

No she is not 😅😅😅

@Kow-c9k

9 ай бұрын

It looks like kissing

@RQBtv

7 ай бұрын

@@YellowBallOfficial she?

Herb Lubalin is my Great-Great-Uncle.

@VictorDanielSeniorCampos

2 жыл бұрын

NO! REALLY?

@VibrantlySmartalicious87

Жыл бұрын

Yup, it’s true

@channel_moved_stop_subscribing

Жыл бұрын

@@VibrantlySmartalicious87 no

@jadstudiosofficial

19 күн бұрын

Wow! I didn’t know that!

2:05 P-head's blinks

I need to remember that beginning person is Bill Blass.

The NOO YAWK/JOISEY is strong with this man. Becomes hilarious when you realize that the "P-head" has been facing right since 1984. So, PBS eventually would get its wish. ^^

Although successful, he failed to recognize the need to differentiate PBS from other networks. While the big three were about ratings, PBS was about people and programming. Chermayeff and Geismar took Lubalin's Everyman, flipped it to face the future, (as they did with the NBC peacock) repeated the outline, and turned it into Everyone, which is basically PBS's audience and benefactor. Lubalin's logo was nothing more than just mere letters with weird shapes and a P-head that faces to the past . But still, a veritable effort.

@kadenvanciel9335

8 жыл бұрын

That's YOUR opinion. How YOU guys see the logos as scary are not how I see them. The P-head was facing those directions because of political views. Left for democrats(liberals), and right for republicans(conservatives).

@BCOPTV

7 жыл бұрын

And the colors. And the 1984 design supposedly had red, white and blue.

@Higolmon

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Gumagay didn't you see in the video that he considerd have the P facing forward but that's would have made it nose touching the b in an akward way and with the chermyeff and geismar they could have just easly use the P from the original logo without modifying it other then flipping it but that would have made it very flat and boring

@kadenvanciel9335

6 жыл бұрын

Could that be why they added what logo experts call the split?

@polytri6495

6 жыл бұрын

this is the best logo EVER tho

i thought this was about the 1984 p-head split logo at first

What was wrong with their first try? After all, this is NATIONAL TV.

0:56 why so many stars? (meanwhile there are 50 stars on the American flag and god knows how many stars there on the sky some nights)

@alalahoward1299

5 жыл бұрын

to design United States

PBS logo from 1971-1984

cool.

pbs 1979 got at red head 2:01

There was already a video of this, called, "The Origins of the PBS Logos", but it has already been deleted.

@kadenvanciel9335

9 жыл бұрын

Also, the animation sequences of this video appear to be by Chuck Jones, animator for the Tom and Jerry/Looney Tunes/Dr. Seuss cartoons back in the 60's/70's years.

@Nickolasthegamer492

8 жыл бұрын

stars to bird to p head

@DanknDerpyGamer

Жыл бұрын

@@kadenvanciel9335 Don't forget many Looney Tunes and/or Merrie Melodies cartoons!

2:21 2:27 the first pbs stop Motion

an incredible video

2:00 PBS

THEY JUST CALLED P-HEAD "THE BLUE MAN" WTF!!!

@RQBtv

7 ай бұрын

Who the hell is “they”? Herb never called him the “P-Head”, nobody did until later.

@KC_and_Carl

7 ай бұрын

@@RQBtv Sorry. I meant "he" called P-Head the blue man

@RQBtv

7 ай бұрын

@@KC_and_Carl I wasn’t mad about the pronouns, just that that’s what the designer himself called him

And that, people was how P-head B and S were created.

*0:22** IF THAT WAS TEN YEARS AGO FROM THIS MADE, THIS WOULD'VE CAME OUT IN 1981!*

@eggy543

6 жыл бұрын

NECHO II Excatly.

@jadsi

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr

Their dream came true in 1984, without the B and the S though...

@thoseonetrains

2 жыл бұрын

ew 2018 me

Interesting

How much is anyone willing to bet that this logo was all of a setup? That PBS was supposedly vague of wanting a "national" brand and the artist who had the common sense thought like the rest of us (like patriotism) and got shot down by the (PC) PBS creative folks? It seemed like PBS was deliberately wanting something to look so bad that they HAD to rebrand in 1984. OTTH PBS's first closing logo was a generic three colored Helvetica like text that was inherited by NET. If they knew PBS was launching, you'd think they'd have a rebrand from the start.

anyone doing graphics in school and was brought here

Who's the man at the beginning?

@kadenvanciel9335

6 жыл бұрын

And I can assume that the quality of this video makes the voices of Lubalin and Blass "the same"? Of course, the animation and some of the sound effects remind me of the 60's shorts and films animated by Chuck Jones. Ever heard of him?

KUHT launched 1953

👏👏👏👏👏

2:25 P-Head Kissing B

PBS didnt like cpb's logos i see

Good thing the "Jewish" PBS logo was rejected.

@SaraHouck461

7 жыл бұрын

Good. I agree that the final result deserved to be more representing of the human race itself rather than a certain religious faith.

@alalahoward1299

5 жыл бұрын

PBS didn't know Chanukah

@jadstudiosofficial

19 күн бұрын

@@SaraHouck461you talking about P head?

its shocking how many semiotic mistakes he made and kept repeating through out the design processes.

@stefankjartansson9174

7 жыл бұрын

You're right, it's surprising how many client misses he went through. And then arrived at such a classic. Maybe it's just hyperbole for the cameras? Regardless, it's nice to see when the legends aren't afraid to show that they're human too.

@ytjao

4 жыл бұрын

Could you please number those mistakes?

Why The P-head’s Nose On B?

@alalahoward1299

5 жыл бұрын

push it fake good (because of 2D animation)

@Vixiental

Жыл бұрын

"He's gonna have his nose right up to B."

@Spike3939-yx

17 күн бұрын

*HONK*

They should have chosen the 1:39-1:40 logo instead of the sh*tty man logo that is used by users around the internet.

@jadstudiosofficial

Жыл бұрын

What is wrong with the P Head?

@Spike3939-yx

18 күн бұрын

P-head: logo kids and the logo community.

@jadstudiosofficial

12 күн бұрын

Come on, p head isn’t that bad…