It was awesome to see these ‘Aphex Twin’ logo sketches and construction images on designer Paul Nicholson’ Instagram profile.

One of the most memorable logos in the music profession inspired by aliens. Its interesting to see how Richard has gone through the process of making the rough sketches and then design the final construction.

Richard says, “A little piece of trivia about the logo: at the time I met Richard, I had being doing artwork for a San Francisco-based skatewear label called Anarachic Adjustment. Their ‘thing’ at the time had been the whole “alien” vibe (remember, we are talking 1991). So, I had been creating loads of designs based around the letter ‘A’ which got knocked back. Richard, having seen the work in progress, liked where I was going with the amorphic shape and from these I developed what is now the Aphex ‘A.’ The logo was finished early 1992, in time to appear on the ‘Xylem Tube’ sleeve.”