Anti-Masonry | The Pentagram In Corporate Logos

The pentagram in
corporate logos

Fig. 1: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, Chermayeff & Geismer, Inc.. p. 162

Fig. 2: Precision Datacom, Gardner Design. p. 162.

Fig. 3: Tejas Grill, John Evans Design. p. 9.

Fig. 4: 1925, Texas Portland Cement Co., Dallas. Texas p. 62.

Fig. 5: 1949, Capitol Records, Inc.,, Los Angeles, California p. 94

Fig. 6: 1925. Colonial Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania p. 70.

Fig. 7: 1936. Fiera di Tripoli, advertising stamp for fair. p. 9.

Fig. 8: 1938, J. E. Harton Co., San Francisco. p. 61.

Fig. 9: 1947. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank California. p. 108.

Fig. 10: 1953. Mirna, Poduzeee Za Preradbu Ribe, Rijeka, Yugoslavia. p. 118.

Fig. 11: 1944. Morandi Rice label. p. 87.

Fig. 12: 1936. Royal Revues, Inc. Hollywood, California p. 62

Fig. 13: 1924. Stella d’Italia, Cheese label. p. 87

Fig. 14: International Workers of the World

Fig. 15: 2003. Career College, Vancouver.

Fig. 16: 2001. All Star Cafe.

Fig. 17: 1988-2006. Prodigy Communications.

Fig. 18: 1887. University of California, seal detail.

Fig. 20: 2006. HexeEdit software logo.

Fig. 19: 2009 KTOO Radio, Juneau, Alaska

Fig. 21: 1920. Wentworth Smith.

Fig. 22: 2012.
John Varvatos.

Note: In a collection of 365 logos uploaded on 19 February 2006 by Stabilo Boss [Ludwig Gatzke] of Berlin: Germany to flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/, entitled “The Hall of Web 2.0 Logos”, not one of them incorporated a five-pointed star or pentagram.

Figs. 1, 2, 3.: Logolounge, 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers, Catharine Fishel, Bill Gardner. Gloucester, Massachusetts : Rockport Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 1-56496-909-6.
Figs. 4, 6, 12.: Trademarks of the 20’s and 30’s. Eric Baker, Tyler Blik. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1985.
Figs. 7, 13.: Italian Art Deco, graphic design between the war, Steven Heller & Louise Fili. San francisco, California : Chronicle Books, 1993.
Figs. 5, 8, 9, 10, 11.: Trademarks of the forties and fifties, Eric Baker, Tyler Blik. San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, 1988.
Figs. 14, 15, 16.: Uncited web images.
Fig. 17.: sbcglobal.net (accessed 2006/10/28)
Fig. 19.: An open source hexadecimal editor for Mac OS X, posted 8 May 2006 by Richard K Miller. There are several hints from macosxhints.com that require a hex editor.