Back in 2006 I created a trace of the Laughing Man Logo from the Anime "Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex 1st Gig". As the SVG and PNGs I released back then were a lot reused, I decided to rerelease my original files with some improvements.
I am not the designer of the Logo, the Logo was designed by Paul Nicholson of Terratag and used by Production I.G. in the anime.
You will find following SVGs here:
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laughing_man.svg contains the refined 2018 version of the Logo I traced back in 2006.
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other/laughing_man_with_text.svg contains the (mostly) original SVG I created 2006. It still contains the text path that was layed down a circular path.
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other/laughing_man_masked_text_path.svg contains a version, where the text was converted into a path object for easier manipulation. There are still the primitive masking rectangles over the blue circles and text however, which make exporting hard.
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other/laughing_man_inkscape.svg contains the refined 2018 version of my Logo trace, with proper boolean operations and a few transparent characters.
The PNG files are what you may use for any rasterized stuff you may want to do.
Here is the SVG:
