New Logo and Look for 2017 MTV Video Music Awards by OCD and In-house
First awarded in 1984, the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) are the annual celebration of music videos and artists bestowed by MTV. Over more than 30 years, the VMAs have provided some of MTV’s most talked about moments and they are, relatively speaking, one of the few MTV events that make MTV feel like the old MTV before reality TV (early seasons of The Real World excluded). At the end of August, the 2017 VMAs will take place and they feature a new logo — meant to return year after year instead of being a one-off as previous logos — designed by New York, NY-based OCD and MTV’s in-house team. All previous VMA logos. Previously, the logo changed for each edition of the VMAs. Seeing them all together here is like my youth — up until the mid 1990s — flashing b