Music Glue is a London-based e-commerce platform for the music industry, launched in 2007, that allows artists to sell music, merchandise and tickets directly to fans from a single branded storefront [1]. The company was founded by Mark Meharry, who remains its chief executive [2].
Design and History
The Music Glue logo consists of a wordmark paired with a circular emblem. The symbol is described in the company’s US trademark filing as a circle with a decorative border, including scalloped, ruffled or zig-zag edges, with the circle totally or partially shaded [3]. The mark was filed with the USPTO on April 13, 2007, by Music Glue Limited, and registered on August 19, 2008 [4]. The US registration was later cancelled in 2017 following the cancellation of the underlying international registration [4].
Vector and raster versions of the current logo are available on Wikimedia Commons, filed under the category for Music Glue [5]. No documented redesign history, designer attribution or agency credit for the logo has been published in accessible sources.
Meaning and Symbolism
The company’s own communications describe its platform in functional terms, such as enabling artists to sell “anything, to anyone, anywhere, in any currency, any language and via any device” [6], but they do not explain the visual meaning of the mark itself.
Typography and Design
The company’s platform documentation notes that artists using Music Glue can customize their own storefronts with their own branding, images, colours and fonts [7], but this refers to artist-facing customization tools rather than the Music Glue corporate identity itself.
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