DOTS, BARS AND SYMBOLISM

Even though Michel Comte has been described as "the most influential designer of the 90s", even if some argue that his innovations in typography and graphic design have revolutionized the look of contemporary magazines, advertisements and packaging, one should know that the gigabrother outlook was not totally born out of that man's maniac and psychopathical mind, this high priest of the World Wide Web.

THE ONH LOGO

The ONH logo is the base of the entire gigabrother aesthetics, including its typography, symbols, other logos and runelike alphabets. Whenever Comte or any other gigamember is asked where the ONH logo comes from, you'll get that same silly answer : "This is the skeleton of an ancient starfish". They will also tell you that this starfish can be seen in the Babble Bible (the holy book of the Order) and that it is a symbol for their neverending quest, just like that dear Taciturne, who once said : "Our symbol, our cross is our infinite desire to honour our powerful lord the DOT and with him the army of BARS."

To understand this one has to know that the main leitmotiv of the ONH has become the worship of those abstract elements, who build our lives, the dots and bars. Those small fragments that build up letters, symbols, words, stories, dreams, hopes, joy... words who are merely synonyms of ORDER and LAW in the ears of the ONH Elders. The goal of their worship is to understand the cause and effects of these dots and bars, and then to use them in order to rule the world.

But this is ain't very new in fact. "First there was the word" is already written in every holy book of every known religion. The idea that words are using us and not vice-versa is a million years old. So even if they act like originals, they are no more but suckers...

And it was the same with the logo. The true story is that Taciturne was about to write the first manifesto of the Order and told Michel to find a punchy logo. I was there that very day, when I had to clean my desk, for I was fired from TNT the day before. "Something like the Nazis Swastika" both Taciturne and Michel agreed laughing like mad... "Yeah, something mean and cruel." I ran away with tears in my eyes...

But all that Michel did was to go on a fucked up webpage at vonschwautz.free.fr to download a long forgotten Schutzstaffel symbol (which was in fact inspired of a starfish skeleton) and he told Taciturne that it was he who actually designed it (he did the same with the main gigabrother logo!). The original logo though was designed by SS occultist Willfried Brauseberger Von Schwautz (nowadays member of the ONH Elders) and symbolized the will to "weave a black web over the earth". Unfortunately it was refused by Himmler who prefered Wiligut's Black Sun (which according to legends was the idea of Schwautz... strange, isn't it?).

THE TYPOGRAPHY

All the gigabrother fonts are derived from the ONH logo. The main font has been designed by Alois Von Grünenwörth-Mömpelgard Der Jüngere, while the numerous others have been secretely manufactured by innocent typographists, who were apperently killed afterwards and guess who claims to be their original and multi talented designer? Bingo, it's that Michel Comte again.

But nothing original here either. Unprofessionally typefaced, unreadable punk rock dada headlines, "Back to the 80s", even back to Anti-art theories of pre-Weimar eras. In other words : just plain boring crap... we already had to endure Brody, Warhol and all the other bimbos, do we really need a Michel Comte ? Yet one more Factory ? One more Bazooka ? All this seems a little retarded to me...

THE RUNES AND OTHER SYMBOLS

No fascist ideologies without runes and cryptic symbols. In our times of post-post-industrial culture, gigabrother seems to make no difference with all the other crypto nazi shit, by using a high ammount of weird mystic signs and cryptic runes. It is told, that it is all taken from the Babble Bible and that it is older than any of the contemporary religions, but this is only part of Comte's conspiracy in order to erase the last little bits of truth on this planet. Like he once said : "...in order to get hold of the future, you'll have to distort the past !"

But let me tell you : "IF YOU DO NOT REMEBER THE PAST, YOU ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT."