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The History Of Big Brothers All Seeing Eye
G-BOI
04-05-2005
Let me explain the history of Big Brothers Biggest trademark, the now infamous eye logo.

In big brother 1 producers Shot footage of contestant Melanie Hill for the opening Title sequence.

when the show was a big hit producers decided they wanted to go in a different Art deco style direction for the second run and recruited designer Daniel Eatock to design a signature Logo that would be instantly recognisable and give the series its own identity.

The second logo was designed to invock 'interference' on a tv screen. the simple horizontol lines were a big hit and producers wanted to keep the basic logo but change some elements for series 3

the series three eye was designed to play on the fact that Big brother was addictive. the 'hypnotic' green, Orange and yellow logo (again designed by Daniel Eatock) wasnt received well at first but was soon loved by all.

By now the fans of the show had come expect some sort of 'play' on lines with the big brother logo and so for series four they had Daniel design a logo that would compliment the new 'light' theme of the show. the psycodelic rainbow eye withe the sun bea lines was an eye sore at first. but again the logo grew on us and some was the shows most successful logo to date.

But the show wasnt a success and so producers decided to get evil for series 5.
when the evil eye for series 5 was first released fans moaned that it was unoriginal as it was far too similar to series 2 horizontal lines.
when it was finally seen in all its spiky red, satanic glory on screen the logo became the fans favourite.

now as BB6 draws nearer were treated to Version 6 of the logo, called 'shattered' again designed by Daniel. This years Logo has been designed with a hidden meaning sparking rumours of a split house. unusualy different, yet quite a simple idea, it will no doubt become iconic of BB6
Foureyes
04-05-2005
Thank you G-BOI. The unveiling of the new eye has become part of the ritual of BB for me. I LOVE the new one, can't wait to see the idents. I know - sad freak...
rachelb65
04-05-2005
G-BOI I'm glad you did this after my cock up of a thread on the eye today
bailey1987
04-05-2005
Originally Posted by G-BOI:
“Let me explain the history of Big Brothers Biggest trademark, the now infamous eye logo.

In big brother 1 producers Shot footage of contestant Melanieb Hill for the opening Title sequence.

when the show was a big hit producers decided they wanted to go in a different Art deco style direction for the second run and recruited designer Daniel Eatock to design a signature Logo that would be instantly recognisable and give the series its own identity.

The second logo was designed to invock 'interference' on a tv screen. the simple horizontol lines were a big hit and producers wanted to keep the basic logo but change some elements for series 3

the series three eye was designed to play on the fact that Big brother was addictive. the 'hypnotic' green, Orange and yellow logo (again designed by Daniel Eatock) wasnt received well at first but was soon loved by all.

By now the fans of the show had come expect some sort of 'play' on lines with the big brother logo and so for series four they had Daniel design a logo that would compliment the new 'light' theme of the show. the psycodelic rainbow eye withe the sun bea lines was an eye sore at first. but again the logo grew on us and some was the shows most successful logo to date.

But the show wasnt a success and so producers decided to get evil for series 5.
when the evil eye for series 5 was first released fans moaned that it was unoriginal as it was far too similar to series 2 horizontal lines.
when it was finally seen in all its spiky red, satanic glory opn screen the logo became the fans favourite.

now as BB6 draws nearer were treated to Version 6 of the logo, called shattered. unusualy different, yet quite a simple idea, it will no doubt become iconic of BB6”


isnt this just commen sence
lancey_999
04-05-2005
Thanks, a good read, although I knew all of it, lol!
FinalBroadcast
04-05-2005
Good thread, G-BOI.
StewartF
04-05-2005
Thanks for that G-BOI
shudder
04-05-2005
Originally Posted by bailey1987:
“isnt this just commen sence ”

Yes it is just common sense but it was nice of th OP to make the effort IMO

Peace
smeg_head
04-05-2005
Actually you need to look closer at the Big Brother 3 eye - the colours used are actually cyan, yellow, magenta but because the human eye can't differentiate the blue and pink when they appear so chaotically close together they look green and orange
nickthegreek2k5
05-05-2005
Originally Posted by smeg_head:
“Actually you need to look closer at the Big Brother 3 eye - the colours used are actually cyan, yellow, magenta but because the human eye can't differentiate the blue and pink when they appear so chaotically close together they look green and orange”

lol- i just read ur post and thought- uh...yet whatever... it was green yellow and orange... ur talking rubbish...

until...

i zoomed inon the bb3 eye that i have on my comp and...
omg!!
ur right!! theres no orange or green!! how on earth did i not notice that b4!!!
lol
well done!
flandangos
10-05-2005
but on the book'Big brother-getting in and staying in' the eye WAS orange and green.
smeg_head
10-05-2005
Originally Posted by flandangos:
“but on the book'Big brother-getting in and staying in' the eye WAS orange and green.”

I haven't got the book so can't check myself but perhaps the cover designer was also fooled by the optical illusion...
tillyoshea
03-06-2005
Originally Posted by G-BOI:
“This years Logo has been designed with a hidden meaning sparking rumours of a split house.”

Did we ever find out what the hidden meaning was?
Dawa
03-06-2005
They use the eye because obviously of 1984 by George Orwell, who described the world as we know it united under a totalitarian police state. Orwell (or some elcheapo artist) who was a firm believer in the illuminatis plans to create a new world order in real life used the eye from the illuminati symbol with the pyramid and all seeing eye above.

And before you start going " yawn yawn fake " have a look at the back of a one dollar billl (USA)

so really it was allready famous before big brother, and they didnt invent it

(Most of you allready know that, but i thought it was cool )
Rain
03-06-2005
GBOI rocks because I know about the eye's back ground now! WHooooHoooo!
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