A little story about our smiley logo.

English Version below.

In our first blog we would like to explain the inspiration and background for our second logo.
It has no name, it doesn't need a name.
It has no gender, a face with 2 eyes and 3 mouths. It smiles, it is sad and neutral.

Thus it does not stand for only one thing. It reflects every feeling that can be experienced in different life situations.

"Life is pain, life is fear, and man is unhappy. Now all is pain and fear. Now man loves life because he loves pain and fear. That's how they've made it. Life now is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that is the whole deceit. Man now is not yet the right man. There will be a new man, happy and proud. He for whom it will make no difference whether he lives or does not live, he will be the new man. He who overcomes pain and fear will himself be God. And this [current] God will not be."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils

I got the idea when I was in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. At 5 a.m. I was walking with a colleague from a rave to the hotel. We were a bit lost in the strange city and tried to find the way. In the process, my eyes fell on a failed smiley face spray-painted on a wall.

I stopped in front of it for a while and the longer I looked at it, the more thoughts formed in my head.

It reflected my feelings so well, as if someone had spray painted my soul and thoughts on the wall. I couldn't get it out of my head and I knew I had to do something with it. When I got back to Germany I sat down to the logo. The eyes of the smiley expressed too specific feelings for me. But the logo should not only show one feeling but all possible feelings that people can feel. For example, it reflects your own feelings and that's all you see at that moment. So we bring together in 2D form what we can feel in our 3D reality.

With the finished logo I went to the patent office and registered it officially as the second logo of Life is Pain.

Why does your 'smiley' logo have such a strange face?

A little background story to our second logo.

In our first blog post we would like to introduce you to our smiley face logo and explain the background.

We don't have a name for our logo.

It doesn't need a name, does it?

"Life is pain, life is fear, and man is unhappy. Now all is pain and fear. Now man loves life because he loves pain and fear. That's how they've made it. Life now is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that is the whole deceit. Man now is not yet the right man. There will be a new man, happy and proud. He for whom it will make no difference whether he lives or does not live, he will be the new man. He who overcomes pain and fear will himself be God. And this [current] God will not be."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils

It has no gender. It's a face with 2 eyes and 3 mouths.

It's smiling, it's sad, and it's neutral (numb).

Oh and not round, that's our smiley. With that being said, it represents more than just one thing. It stands for every feeling you might have going through different situations in life. It doesn't conform to the norm, it's anything but normal.

I came up with the idea of the logo while I was in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

After an exhausting rave evening a friend and I walked home at 5am through the streets of Prague. We was lost trying to find our way to the hotel when a failed attempt of a smiley caught my eye. It was sprayed on a random wall and I stopped. I stood there and so many thoughts started floating around in my head.

It perfectly reflected my feelings in the moment as if my soul sprayed the smiley face there. Since then I couldn't get the badly sprayed smiley out of my head. It triggered my creativity and I knew I had to create something that included the smiley.

When I arrived in Germany I added two more mouths and normal eyes.

The original eyes on it seemed sad and that the smiley was going through a hard time and only showing this specific feeling.

But the logo wasn't supposed to only show one of the possible stages of feelings. Now it displays more of the emotions humans are able to have. You can interpret all of your feelings into it.

If you concentrate, you can only see one of these feelings. It depends on you what you see and how you are feeling right now. With our logo we sum up in 2D form what we are able to feel in our 3D reality.

After i created the logo, i went to the patent office and successfully registered the smiley as the second logo for Life Is Pain.®️.

- Words & Images by Mazlum & Nikita