Playboy magazines with naked women are a thing of the past, but it will be interesting to see if they can do anything to keep their name different from publications like Maxim.
#Playboy magazine logo free#
Back to the point however, with so much free nudity EVERYWHERE, there's almost no point to Playboy having pictures of naked women. While the "Rules of the Internet" may be a joke, they're true, and none are truer than rule 34 which of course states that if you can think of something, the adult entertainment business has already done it. As anyone can point out, every smartphone and computer is just a few clicks away from all kinds of depravity to which Playboy, Hustler and Penthouse can't even come close. For decades, Playboy has been known for naked women, and now they've announced that they will no longer provide that product. Those were all jokes, by the way, but this Playboy news is huge. In other news, McDonald's announced that they were no longer serving hamburgers, Starbucks will only serve mineral water, Eminem will now play the cello and cats are now going to be helpful. I still think this may be some sort of hoax, but last week, Playboy magazine announced that they would no longer be featuring fully naked women in their magazine.
He died on 28 April.There are many reasons to read Playboy Magazine: articles, pictures, and inherent collector's value? Paul retired from the magazine in 1982 and worked as an independent designer in advertising, TV, magazines and film, as well as becoming an artist, creating thousands of paintings which he occasionally exhibited in his home city of Chicago. He helped redefine the whole notion of commercial art as being able to be as well-regarded and legitimate as high art.”ĭuring Paul’s time as art director, Playboy won multiple awards for illustration and graphic design. In the documentary Art of Playboy, Christie Hefner, Hugh Hefner’s daughter and Playboy’s former chief executive, said: “ deserves the credit for the illustrator’s liberation. He famously commissioned a plethora of well known artists to create artwork for the magazine, including Warhol, Dali, James Rosenquist, LeRoy Neiman, Brad Holland and Shel Silverstein.
Starting out as a freelance illustrator, Paul once said that he took the job with Playboy after a meeting with Hefner, because the founder offered him complete freedom and the chance to create the magazine’s visual identity.Īs art director, Paul designed the publication’s layout and led its creative direction across photography – the inaugural issue’s cover star was Marilyn Monroe – and illustration. It went on to become one of the most recognisable logos in history, found on every Playboy cover (except the first issue) and emblazoned on all sorts of products, corporate ephemera and even the tail of Hefner’s private jet.
Paul conceived the title’s iconic “bunny in a bow tie” logo after a discussion with Hefner, during which the magazine’s founder said: “We’d been talking about animals and we thought of the rabbit, the playboy of the animal world.” Paul later claimed to have drawn the symbol in an hour. Paul was Hugh Hefner’s first employee for the magazine in 1953 and stayed as art director for nearly 30 years. Art Paul, the original art director and logo designer for Playboy who commissioned the likes of Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali as illustrators, has died aged 93.