Horizons Companies

Background
Horizons Companies is a media content development and video production firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio that creates and produces broadcast television programming, television and radio advertisements, web sites and other audiovisual elements for corporate, governmental and educational entities. The company was founded in 1984 by Donald A. Lee as Horizons Video and Film, and began operating out of small office in Upper Arlington, Ohio. In 1994, the firm changed its name to Horizons Companies and moved its operations into a former 1930's arc deco movie theater in Columbus, Ohio. Horizons also produced software until 2002.

1st Logo (1999-2000)
Visuals: Against a desktop background, there is a red button with a cursor hand on it. The hand clicks the button and leaves, causing the button to become transparent. A rippling effect appears, forming a blue rectangle with "Horizonsinteractive" underneath it. There is an "i" slightly off-center and cut into the rectangle, making a stylized "H". The hole where the button used to be dots the "i". As the logo faces the camera, the background fades out and the rectangle turns blue-green. The logo zooms into the hole.

Variant: On Garfield's Mad About Cats, the logo fades in from the Brighter Child logo.

Technique: The desktop is recorded from a real computer interface, while everything else is CGI.

Audio: A three-note synth tune accompanied by clicking sounds, followed by a fourth note that holds out for longer.

Availability: Seen only on Garfield's Mad About Cats and Zoboomafoo: Animal Kids.

2nd Logo (2001-2002)
Visuals: On a black background, several light trails begin circling around a green orb, on which forms the new Horizons Companies logo, which is a mannequin-like figure holding an arc with the words "Horizons[Companies]" underneath. The text "know the edge" appears in green below with a trademark symbol.

Technique: The trails and the logo forming.

Audio: Whoosh sounds.

Availability: Seen on Zoboomafoo: Creature Quest.

3rd Logo (2001-2002)
Visuals: On a black-golden background, we see numerous light sparkes forming as the figure from before creates the arc. The camera pans outward until the figure is in full view. The words "Horizons[Companies]" fades in underneath.

Technique: The arc forming and the text fading.

Audio: A chiming tune, accompanied with whooshes.

Availability: Seen only on Zoboomafoo: Animal Alphabet.