CATEGORY

Logo and Identity Animations

LEVEL

Professional

RANK


DESIGN CREDITS

Animator

Sebastian Lange

Logo Design

Soundcloud.com

Music:

Eric Wahlforss
Carl Borg
Various Soundcloud members


TAGS

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LINKS

mynamewasgod.com
soundcloud.com


CLIENT

A platform that puts your sound at the heart of communities, websites, and even apps. Watch conversations, connections and social experiences happen, with your sound as the spark.


BRIEF

A versatile and always changing sexy logo animation that could easily be adapted to various sound atmospheres and musical styles. This was meant as a reflection of the wide variety of different musicians and DJs connected to Soundcloud.


APPROACH

The idea was to create a vivid animated Soundcloud logo with design elements from the logo itself: the waveform as a symbol for digital music. So I built up an animation from waveforms moving to different musical sound sources. The idea was to create a variety of logos with one general visual language but each with unique audio and animation behaviors. Therefore the project had to be built in a flexible way so that all audiofiles were in direct connection with the animation data (the keyframes), so that the link between the music and the visual output is always unique.

We needed a logo animation for all our screencasts and Soundcloud corporate videos that could easily be adapted to various sound atmospheres and musical styles. When we asked Sebastian to work on this there was already an existing logo design, but no animation. As the logo itself is built from a simplified waveform, it seemed quite obvious that the animation should also embody a moving waveform (as this is also a characteristic graphical feature of our platform). The result that Sebastian came up with seemed pretty perfect to us and we were able to adjust it to even more audio tracks. — Eric Wahlforss, founder of Soundcloud​.com

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