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Daniel John

"There were tears of happiness": How a fan-made Coldplay logo caught the band's eye – and ended up on the Barcelona FC shirt

Barcelona FC kit.

Music fans have been designing their own posters and logos for years, but it isn't often that a fan-made design catches the eye of the band itself. It's even less often that said logo forms the basis of the band's next album. And it's even less often that said logo then ends up on the kit of one of the world's biggest football teams.

Mexican fan David Saldaña Palomares created a Coldplay wordmark made from moon symbols in 2021. Up there with some of the best band logos, this clever design was shared by a fan page (below), leading to Coldplay adopting it for Moon Music, released this month. And as part of a collaboration with Spotify, it's now on the Barcelona FC shirt too.

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