Pioneer spirit
Hideo Kojima took former Metal Gear Solid artist Yoji Shinkawa with him to serve as the art director for Kojima Productions. The result? A Giger-looking logo much more in line with Shinkawa’s style than the previous slick KojiPro fox. Kojima explains:
“I’ve always loved astronauts, and it is designed so it can be seen as a medieval knight or an astronaut’s helmet. The concept is, with new technology and a pioneer spirit, we want to bring you to a new realm — within the digital world, I mean — we want to travel together with you to a new realm to which no one has gone before.
“As for the skeleton, we’re homo sapiens — people of wisdom — but we’re also homo ludens — people who play — and the concept behind this logo is that: With new technology and a pioneer spirit, we’ll deliver play to a new world.”
The Giger callback works in an even more roundabout way given that that explanation sounds like a roundabout way of describing the in-Alien-universe Prometheus. Kojima Productions will be selling the design on a shirt at some point.
Hideo Kojima Talks New Studio, ‘Edgy’ PlayStation Game, and the Future [IGN]
