EP46: Frank Olinsky - MTV logo and Moon Man designer

This week’s silent giant is Brooklyn artist, graphic designer, illustrator and art director Frank Olinsky, the man who created the iconic MTV logo!


Frank stopped by the podcast to chat about his early life, attending Pratt Institute back in the late 1960s, breaking into the industry as a graphic designer, creating album art for some of the biggest rocks acts of the 90s, being neighbors with Jean Michele Basqiuat, and oh yeah the makings of that famous MTV logo and a whooole lot more.


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