The Mask as Logo: Style Community and Series

“The transportable, visual logo face is the sign object that helps to install and sustain an everyday life between the acoustic production of a recording and the social violence of a performance” (Diederichsen 2014a, p. 13), as I quoted Diedrich Diederichsen in the introduction to this book. The face is therefore at the center of pop music and helps reception and production to connect the various parts of the media biography, to bring some order to the chaos. In general, a logo “visually represents the identity of the object it stands for” as part of the corporate design (CD), according to the Dictionary of Design.