
A rough idea for a gapingvoid logo...
[Scratches head]
Posted by hugh macleod at March 22, 2006 1:14 PM | TrackBackThere's no wine in the glass! :)
Posted by: Simon at March 22, 2006 2:26 PMnice. very nice.
almost lennon-like.
in a good way.
It's not doing it for me. Self-portraits are such a *****!!! So how would I know that this is you drawing a cartoon on a business card as opposed to somebody else writing a journal?
Posted by: Katherine at March 22, 2006 3:29 PMlooks idea but I would have the martini glass tipped over and put some of your classic gritted teeth on the character
Posted by: tomdog at March 22, 2006 3:44 PMI'd go with a wine bottle rather than a martini glass. For obvious reasons.
Posted by: Beck at March 22, 2006 4:05 PMI'm thinking tomdog has the right idea. I LOVE the self-portrait thing, but do it once more, with *feeling*. It looks a bit too safe. I don't feel that visceral-Hugh-sharp-edges thing. I like the basic theme a lot, though -- (love the hair) with you drawing on the card...
Posted by: Kathy Sierra at March 22, 2006 4:07 PMI'm not feeling this one. As a cartoon it feels like it needs a witty caption. As a logo it gives me a "Hunh? Whatever." feeling. How about a depiction of the gaping void, like on the "decommodification" card? Still love, love loving the new stuff bud. Cheers!
Posted by: Andrew Toomey at March 22, 2006 5:31 PMNot a bad drawing, but where's the sarcasm? It doesn't stand out as a logo in my mind...
Posted by: Andy at March 22, 2006 5:56 PMPut the wrong url in and got this
Ha... Not your room is it Hugh? Like pic. Is there a redesign coming along?
Posted by: pieman at March 23, 2006 9:22 AMThis gapingvoid logo does it for me. It is definitely a design outside the box.
The intensity is there and the graphic carries a sense of the activity. It is better at that than the version you used on the t-shirts
As to the critics, tell them it's f**king art, you have to put something there yourself in order to see what it means. If you don't have anything to put there...well you are probably not going to understand the value of the service anyway.
Posted by: David St Lawrence at March 23, 2006 11:33 AMI love the general idea, but it MUST be the size of a business card. Whaddaya, nuts?
Posted by: Colleen at March 23, 2006 5:13 PMI like this logo. The hair is good. The martini glass is perfect. In short, it says everything it needs to say in the fewest possible lines. The only thing I might suggest is rendering the title in Photoshop text-- nothing too fancy, just so it's more instantly legible.
Posted by: Doug at March 23, 2006 7:36 PMUh oh, I'm being swayed by David St. Lawrence. He has a good point--I was being all lazy and hoping you'd do it all [whatever "it" is] for me. Perhaps that logo is an acquired taste?
Posted by: Kathy Sierra at March 24, 2006 1:35 AMi think it's pretty boring. about one in 3 of your posted 'back-of-business-card-comics' make me laugh out loud, and this just seems boring.
*shrugs* you're pretty much going to do whatever you want anyways, doesn't matter if you receive 1,000 comments to this post.
later.
Posted by: Julia at March 24, 2006 4:44 AMWorks for me though the script could be Hughized more.
Posted by: Jack Yan at March 24, 2006 4:56 AMi like it very much as art - it's simple, classy, and makes me want to snap my fingers and eat an olive, or sip a cup of earl grey.
i enjoy these feelings, but they are not what bring me to this site every day, so i'm going to have to side with the "not quite it" camp.
but do whatever fires you up, of course.
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Posted by: stacey-keebler at March 30, 2006 7:48 PM