- Wu Tang Clan–RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard adopted the name for the rap group after
seeing the Kung Fu film Shaolin and Wu Tang, which features a school of warriors
trained in Wu-Tang style. - The Yardbirds–Grew out of Keith Relf's The Metropolitan Blues Quartet. When the
band changed members in 1963, Relf changed the name to Yardbirds partly from the
nickname of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker and partly from the American slang
for prisoner.
Developing A Logo For Your Band or Solo Act
Once you’ve settled on a name, designing the band’s logo, also called a mark, is the next
logical step. In many ways, a logo is the band’s face before the public. As such, there are
some considerations to keep in mind. A logo should be unique, immediately recognizable,
easily read and reflect the band’s brand image.
Plus, a logo must be scalable, meaning it can be reduced or enlarged without a loss in
quality. The best way to achieve this is by creating the logo as a vector graphic. Vector
graphics are rendered from a mathematical formula that defines the logo. Vector graphics,
in most cases, are created as Illustrator, eps or FreeHand files. The free, open source ap-
plication, Inkscape will also create vectors. Photoshop, on the other hand, creates
bitmapped or raster images that are based on pixels per inch or other unit of measure-
ment. They cannot be scaled without a loss in quality, especially when scaled up. In other
words, if you have your act’s logo created in Photoshop and try to make it larger than the
original size, it will look like garbage.