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Logo Design: Event Horizon

Jack — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:28:13 +0000

Jared’s point is well-taken. Moving any closer to my brief without a warp-assisted graphical designer will turn me into spaghetti.

That’s what I have and that’s where I stop it, mate. The link will work when the entries propagate.

Logo Design: It’s Working

Jack — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:41:50 +0000

Remember Darby O’Gill and the Little People? I didn’t. I used to watch this movie all the time, and it’s the kind of thing I’m talking about: Frightening, fantastic entertainment.

Janet Munro (Katie) really churns my butter, and listen to that language! Wow.

Here’s the song the intro ditty is based on. It’s the Irish leitmotif!

I was in band and choir at St. Patrick’s. That and this were constantly in our rotation:

Logo Design: Sam Who?

Jack — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:41:31 +0000

The easy part’s over. Now I’m designing a logo.

I’m a fan of the “emotional inspiration” method of design used at CMU by the EGP. You start by collecting things — music, art, poetry, sea shells, jade monkey skeletons, whatever — that generate an emotion in you with which you want to work. Eventually you reach a critical mass of feeling and the collection collapses into a singular idea.

My company is coming from a place of Celtic identity, Ghostbusters animated cartoons, and the Insane Clown Posse. Here’s some of the stuff in my bin: