I redesigned the Church of Satan’s website including the logo, and the redesign was featured in this Hot & Horny Halloween, November 2013 issue of Old Nick Magazine, Vol 3. No. 3.
A New Face for the Original Adversary
churchofsatan.com
The Church of Satan was founded by Anton Szandor LaVey in 1966. Satanism’s codification was officially launched in 1969 with the release of LaVey’s The Satanic Bible. The Church of Satan created it’s official website in 1998, after the passing of its founder. If you can say one thing about we Satanists, it’s that we love our aesthetics. Each of these events brought with them powerful imagery, unbridled emotion, and immediate access to the most controversial religion of our time.
The original website for the Church of Satan is remembered with intimate affection. It was created by Magus Peter H. Gilmore with design cues and content from Magus Anton Szandor LaVey. The original concept was one of a haunted mansion, with hidden passages that revealed secret information, images and thought. We still reflect fondly on the memory of the first time we discovered its bombastic graphics, and thought-provoking content. It stood for years as a beacon for every Internet user to discover for himself the ancient human truths contained therein. As with any living entity, a metamorphosis was inevitable.
An inspired collaboration between Magus Gilmore, Warlock Antony and Warlock Campbell produced the completely new, yet deeply familiar design, for the Church of Satan’s online presence. They took design cues from the printed source materials of The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Scriptures, combining them with symbols long associated with Satanism, presenting them in the timeless style of Art Deco.
What you now experience from the website is information presented in a bold new way, that you may directly and intimately connect with. The sense of style and strength of content now assault the visitor, encouraging you to discover, and to delve deeper into its pages; inspiring you study, not worship. Technology continually presents us with effective tools, and here we have employed them to maximize our power to communicate Satanism to all who wish to explore this individualist philosophy.
We believe this new embodiment is more than worthy of the Original Adversary, and we invite you to explore its secrets. You may be surprised at the reflection you witness in its dark mirror.