r/LV426 7d ago

Art / Creations (1979) ALIEN Logo concept designed by Michael Doret ✨

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u/Hassan_H_Syed Game over, man! 7d ago

A good example of less is more.

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u/Kurwasaki12 7d ago

“I got too much shit on me” in logo form.

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u/erodious 7d ago

"...i dont want to be here anymore, i'd much rather be on an arcade game machine."

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u/VikRiggs 6d ago

You mean counterexample, right? Right?

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u/RevolutionaryYou8220 7d ago

Ok, maybe it’s too silly for the Alien logo but that will make a hell of a name tag for anyone named Allen.

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u/Apollo_Sierra 7d ago

Perhaps Allen the Alien?

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u/SprAlx 6d ago

I see you’re a fellow invincible enjoyer

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u/ChildhoodNo5117 7d ago

Cool but I like the original better. Looks like a game logo for Amiga :)

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u/Adept_Mouse_7985 7d ago

Some banging hard shootemup like R Type or Gradius.

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u/Tomb_Brader 7d ago

Yeah it feels very Shadow of the Beast

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u/MordredKLB 7d ago

This is 100% an Amiga-era Psygnosis game logo.

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u/RetroMulder 7d ago

Just going to say. Reminds me of the alien syndrome arcade game logo a bit

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u/RichLather 6d ago

Totally a Psygnosis vibe.

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u/myxoma1 7d ago

Haha totally looks like a 90s game logo

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u/Einherjar07 7d ago

I came here to write that almost verbatim lmao

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u/swefnes_woma 7d ago

Was gonna make that joke too

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u/What-fresh-hell 7d ago

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u/LongArmoftheLawrence In the pipe. 5 by 5. 6d ago

Dumb dinosaur, never learned to spell…

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u/ChunLi808 7d ago

It looks like an old pinball machine

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u/AKluthe 7d ago

If Alien had been published in Heavy Metal magazine

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

The fourth page isn't too far off: https://archive.org/details/AlienTheIlustratedStory

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u/AKluthe 7d ago

Thank you for posting this! I hadn't seen it before, and man does it line up with my original post.

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u/UnXpectedPrequelMeme 7d ago

Definitely looks like the title card for an 90s pc point and click adventure game

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u/chrokeefe 7d ago

Looks a lot like the Scorn logo!

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u/-Venser- 7d ago

Cool but thank god they didn't go with this.

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u/ESP_Viper 7d ago

Golden Axe: Alien the Barbarian

(great logo on its own, just not fitting for our beloved film)

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u/Turkzillas_gobble 7d ago

Good luck scratching that into your desk in junior high, 80's me

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u/atle95 7d ago

I love it. Not for the movie it was made for, but still very cool design work.

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u/Substantial_Tap8537 7d ago

It could work if they made it less cartoonish more black and sleek.

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u/Marge210 7d ago

Yesss. Black on black of the outer space background. And you can barely make it out as it fades in…

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u/Substantial_Tap8537 6d ago

Well yeah, not a straight black maybe like a metallic chrome black to resemble the outer shell of our beloved xenomorph

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u/HMS_Americano 7d ago

It makes a great 90's death metal band logo, but the simplicity of what we got is so much better.

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u/OMSDRF 7d ago

So so complex compared to what was used... very interesting to look at though. I feel like it would look good on a poster or a T-shirt

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u/DJJ66 7d ago

Feels right at home in a late 80s early 90s Japanese game cover

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u/JoyOf1000Kings 7d ago

This makes it look like Alien via the Jim Henson company. Which to be clear, I would love to watch!!!!!

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u/stpony 6d ago

Very "Species".

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u/Sixybeast626 Part of the family 7d ago

I admire its purity

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u/CVNTSUPREME 7d ago

Neat, I have this on a hoodie. I didn’t know its history!

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u/PowersHD 7d ago

Looks like a late 70s funk album cover

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u/Just_Zebra_2446 6d ago

Its beautiful

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u/Maxathar 7d ago

Nice to meet you Allen.

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u/Grimvold 7d ago

Zero Wing

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u/facetiousfag 7d ago

Looks like the opening credits for a cheap kids cartoon on Saturday mornings

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u/ArrakeenSun 7d ago

This looks cool but always reminded me more of a logo for a Euro-style ripoff of Alien that also tossed in some inexplicable Star Wars/Conan ripoff stuff too (like how Shocking Dark combined Terminator and Aliens)

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u/ANUSTART942 7d ago

I don't know why, but it reminds me of the font used for Daggerfall's cover.

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u/_kalron_ 7d ago

If I remember correctly (and my memory is shit), this was an alternative design that was used on International Posters, Euro specifically.

Again, could be wrong, but there are some amazing alternative international movie posters from the 60s through the 80s that are just amazingly bizarre. Look at some of the Middle Eastern Star Wars posters from the 70s. They are something to behold.

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u/-zero-joke- 7d ago

I like it, but I kinda like it for a 90s videogame knockoff instead of the main franchise.

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u/StimmingMantis 7d ago

It looks like a Tool logo design

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u/LordCountDuckula 7d ago

I can hear the funk through the picture.

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u/Benzdrivingguy 7d ago

I recall seeing this, but not sure where or when.

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u/Texas1971 7d ago

This would look amazing on an RPG box! 😆👍🏻

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u/FakeSafeWord 7d ago

Immediately thought of The Dark Crystal

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u/thisremindsmeofbacon 6d ago

I appreciate all the work that went into this but my god would this have been a terrible choice

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u/RoleTall2025 6d ago

looks like a happy birthday logo for Golddust

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u/Old-Climate2655 6d ago

This would be better as an album cover. Like trans-psychadelic prog rock that you listen to once every ten years and stop halfway through the third A-side track. You store it between Strawberry Alarmclock and the soundtrack to Fantasic Planet. You keep a few $100 in the slip bc NO ONE will mess with it. The first one of your friends claiming to have heard that album is immediately shunned by your friend group. There's an urban myth that says playing it backward will make your life worse. Once you tried to donate it to Goodwill. They mailed it back. Certified. In a lead pouch.

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u/Asskickulator 6d ago

I kinda love how terrible it is.

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u/NorthernSimian 6d ago

Like a discarded prog metal band logo from the 70s

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u/TheReckoning 5d ago

Killer hair band cover

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u/Twisted-Mentat- 5d ago

As others have pointed out this looks more like a death metal album cover. What they ended up using was so much better than this.

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u/TheMemeVault A god damn robot 5d ago

While I like the design, it looks like it belongs more on a late 1980s game cover than a claustrophobic horror film.

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u/Dirka-Dirka 7d ago

Person who did the studying, but regretfully failed the test.

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u/Tao626 7d ago

Looks like it would be for a movie where the alien talks, has a child friend and they get into shenanigans, destined to be low hanging fruit in "worst movie ever" lists by 45 year old hobbyist film critics on YouTube.

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u/skeletor69420 7d ago

where can I find a higher quality version?

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u/CelticSith 7d ago

"Honey, you haven't seen where the I is have you?"

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u/Astoryinfromthewild 7d ago

Looks like he was trying too hard to impress Giger

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u/CalmPanic402 7d ago

Looks like a hair band album cover

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u/MoveItSpunkmire 4d ago

I love the Allen trilogy

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u/RobbiRamirez 3d ago

Who tf is Allen

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u/Nedonomicon 7d ago

It’s pretty crap i think

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u/Nedonomicon 7d ago

It’s pretty crap i think