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Original Logotype Designs
by JR Compton

My first, lasting logo. This community radio station has changed dial numbers over the years, but it still uses this logo I did with Advertisezrs Gothic rub-on Presstype letters in the early 80s.

For several years during the mid 90s, I was PR person and board member of Dallas Artists Research & Exhibition, a bleeding-edge local artists organization. We changed logos fairly often, but this is my favorite. The group has since become The McKinney Avenue Contemporary.

I worked with WordSpace, A North Texas Home for Imaginative Language, during the summer 1999. This is the second, experimental version of the logo for the organization, their newsletter and website.

  

I worked briefly for this one-woman organization, which researched, then used co-op advertising budgets to create publications and other advertising projects.

WordScrawl Brainstorm was originally titled The Performance Poetry of Victor Dada. The Dallas poetry and music group was planning a series of performance poetry books by each of its members. This first (and only) volume included work by founders Joe Stanco and Gary Deen. I thought their original title was a little stuffy, and this phrase from an included poem summed up their style and creativity much better.

When I worked for a Yellow Pages company, I rarely had the opportunity to create anything new. This was my proposed logo for this company. They instead went with a much plainer design in Helvetica.

I should not forget this logo for DallasArtsRevue.com, a site that has grown to nearly 1,000 pages of Dallas art, artists, institutions and events. I designed it in 1999, then polished it more later. It loads fast, looks 3-D and is distinctive, although many of the people who see it often, still spell the name of the site "review."