That "Mr.Valve" logo

[Mercury]

I always wondered why they thought of the idea of the eerie dude with the valve on him, but i wanted to make discussion this over some stuff about it like:

what if you turned the valve?

or better yet, why did it need to turn on portal 2?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Which one? There are 2 of them.

[Mercury]

Both of them.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Which one? There are 2 of them.

:qr:

[Levi]

In fact, it was actually a random individual from the streets - and they just took the image.

As for the other one with the strange looking eye, I'm unsure.

[Damn]

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

In fact, it was actually a random individual from the streets - and they just took the image.

As for the other one with the strange looking eye, I'm unsure.

:yinyangflip:

the person with a valve in his eye is/was a valve enployee (sorry for mispelling it) but i don't remember who it was

[Florida Man]

There was also a test version of the logo that seems to have been made in-engine.

https://youtu.be/zrqx45nfyR4

[Damn]

Originally posted by Florida Man:

There was also a test version of the logo that seems to have been made in-engine.

https://youtu.be/zrqx45nfyR4

my question is: who is that person????

[Bleurei]

Originally posted by Florida Man:

There was also a test version of the logo that seems to have been made in-engine.

https://youtu.be/zrqx45nfyR4

i dont know why im laughing at this.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Origins
Valve's Ray Ueno stated he worked with Gabe Newell and their colleagues to develop the "guy in the logo" when they decided to call the company "Valve" around 1995-1996, and needed to develop the visual brand vocabulary to go along with it.

Back then, the casting agencies Valve was using to find models for the Valve Guy only proposed attractive models, while they were searching for "heavy-set", "normal" ones. They then asked their agencies to walk the streets of Seattle and find more interesting people. In Seattle's Broadway district, they took many Polaroids of the types of people Valve was looking for and brought the shots back to them. The team then selected a bald, heavy-built man and a thin man with a goatee from the batches of "off-the-street" Polaroids.[1]

The two comprised the "Open your mind. Open your eyes." concept for Valve's initial brand, respectively for the heavily-built and goatee men. As of today, the identities of both the Valve guys appear to be lost, as Valve apparently did not keep any trace of their identities, the fact they are not professional models making it very difficult - if not impossible - to identify them.[1]

https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Valve