The Plot Against America
Done in: 2019 / Customer: HBO / Task: Logo for Television Series produced by David Simon. Based on the Book by Philip Roth.
What the client needed
This 6-part miniseries is an American alternate history drama created and written by David Simon and Ed Burns, based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Philip Roth. It premiered on HBO on March 16, 2020. The show needed a logo with a sense of the dangerous nationalism of nazi Germany, but any use of the swastika was off limits.
My part of the project
We tried a few options and came down to two: one is a “wiped out” america, and the other incorporates barbed wire. Both use the eagle common in both US and German iconography. Both logos were used for different purposes during production and for advertising.
