You may have assumed the person who designed Pokemon’s famous blue and yellow logo, he was a Nintendo employee, who worked on the word for months, even years. But, he was actually an American artist who was brought to save the brand just a month before his E3 1998 revelation.
27 years after making the logo, Chris Maple is eventually becoming commonplace. “This work was interesting and difficult,” he writes on his own WebsiteWhere he shared some T -shirts mock -ups with one of the early versions of his design.
Maple got a call from the secretary of Nintendo of America President Manoro Arakawa and traveled to the company’s Redmund office to hear what he wanted to do with them. “(Arakawa) introduced himself and said that he was going to formally start a game in the United States and Europe.” Maple said. Ign. “The only problem is that, before the agencies they have tested for this situation, they did not affect the mark, and they burned the budget and the time element.”
So, he had only one month, now known as the Pokémon logo worldwide. Using as a reference, he was given “toys in front of me on the table and pieces of paper and strange drawings and things.” “I go, ‘what’s it?’ And he goes, “It’s a pocket monster,” Maple remembered. “And I said, ‘Oh, what is the pocket monster?’ “It is Pokémon.
Maple did not play the game, he just knew that the Pokémon Blue was coming to follow with a yellow version in the West for a while, and it affected his decision to make the logo today. Finally, he decided on his last design because of “energy in it”.
When he showed her to Nintendo’s executives, the room remained silent for a while. “And then Don James (formerly the former Nintendo of America’s executive VP Operations) speaks and says,” I believe that’s it. ” “Arakawa is sitting there now. He goes, ‘mm. Millm-hamm. Okay. ‘ And Lance (Bar, former Nintendo of America designer) stands up and leaves and leaves and Gale (Teldeen, the former Nintendo of America VP brand management) and then Don looks at me and goes, ‘Create it.’ I went, ‘Okay.’ So I went back and prepared it. “
Then after the E3, the logo was changed slightly, with P and E as well as his halal moon -shaped internal flights changed to hollow semi -circles when he was asked to “just change just a bit.” This is the people we still see in Pokémon Scarlett and Violet. If he can change anything about the logo, it may be turning it into this original version.
He also hopes to return to work again on the 30th anniversary of the franchise. They believe that Nintendo will get another artist to do this, but “I know it will not be right because all the basic thinking that has gone to create the first place to survive in this way, and today to talk to each other, there is an energy and a skeleton to include, and even a one -on -one, and even one -and -a -half.
“Don’t just do it. This is going to be a TLC. So I hope that Pokémon International will play me and say, ‘Hey, it will be huge. The man who did this boy is ranked 30th for us. There is a good PR for us.” It will be smart of them.
Until then, check our ranking of our rating Best Pokémon Game.
