So Fairey outsourced the task to workers from another country, then took all the credit (and profits) for a job well done? Hmmm… that would actually explain a LOT about this “redesign.”

Have some courtesy 
Have some sympathy, and some taste 

Whether or not anyone agrees with this or not, I hope I make it to my grave without ever being called something like this.

Evidently he remained too overwhelmed throughought the process to actually redesign it. I don’t think a skewed tracing and an extra highlight counts.

Of course Mick might have been a picky client who was all “change it but not very much”. Maybe.

Edit. A little research shows that the slight skew and extra highlight came along somewhere in the 41 years the logo has been in use rather than by Fairey’s modification.

Because of that the yellowed look actually makes it look more modern to me than aged, though either interpretation is valid :)

edit- Better idea- Are you listening, Banksy? Please do a piece about Shepard Fairy!

To hell with Fairey, seriously — at this point, he’s more a living brand than anything else, the Mitt Romney of art. There is no piece of his I wouldn’t like to see promptly covered by street art by a sincere artist with a little soul remaining.

The iconic tongue alone means The Rolling Stones, so you don’t need to write the band’s name. Since it already says “Fifty Years”, one might’ve, in place of the band’s name, simply written “Still Rolling.”

He mostly does the first by mucking about in the gray area around the lowest accepted thresholds of “art,” “expression,” “contribution,” and “integrity.”

He mostly does the second by being an unrepentant un-self-aware uninteresting mooch with pounds of smarmy hustle for every pinch of talent he employs.

All that said: Maybe this is a turning point for him.  This could be a (shockingly) subtle, ironic comment on the Rolling Stones shift from moderately subversive figureheads to mainstream corporate shills.  Maybe he’s saying, “Now that you’ve built a media empire around your image as rebel rockers, you deserve to have the famous icon of your irreverent sexuality debased into a shoddy commercial symbol churned, bereft of artistic quality.”

Maybe.

What is a shepard fairy? 

Sorry, to me this is just lazy, even the choice of color. Rolling Stones: It´s kind of an old thing so let´s just make the white parts look yellowed and call it a day.

To call this a redesign is a sign of amazing chutzpa if nothing else I guess.

“Cover Concept/Photography:  Andy Warhol
Album Design/Graphics:  Craigbrauninc.
Jackets/Sleeves:  Sound Packaging Corp.”

OK, so then it was Pasche or this Craig Braun fellow?  It sure as hell looks like Warhol.  To Google:  http://rockpopgallery.typepad.com/rockpop_gallery_news/2007/06/cover-story—r.html
John Pasche:  “The first use of the logo was the inner sleeve for the Sticky Fingers album. The outer sleeve was designed by Andy Warhol, hence the mix-up with the credits (Ed. Note – many have attributed the logo design to Warhol, so we’re happy to clarify this here today!)”

Guess I better quit telling people Warhol designed the Stones logo.  Pedantry is one thing; misinformation?  Quite another.