Hi everyone,
Terrific to see so many new ideas being added
@JamesR1 - I'm glad you enjoyed that
I absolutely agree with you, as long as we are working on an interesting direction your submission is as valid as any other - plus, it would be a shame if we sucked all the fun out of the thread!
If you're interested in trying out a more fun/playful take on the logo, associations I personally thought were interesting were things like sumo wrestlers and elephants. The analogy is pretty simple and both have fairly iconic shapes that could be worked in, plus could work in a playful direction.
Sumo logos:
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=sumo+logo&safe=off&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=u1ouU4C0KYeOkgWXnYG4Aw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1451&bih=825Elephant logos:
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=elephant+logo&safe=off&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=zFouU967OImXkQXA7oCYCg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1451&bih=825@ckybe - was your last comment to me? Did I miss a submission from you mate? If I have just point me in the right direction.
@desuDeArimasu - Clean animations man! Only thing I would suggest from a timing perspective is how much time the text is on the screen (particularly the longer bits of text).
Something I do when I time animating text on and off the screen is read it out loud to myself, clearly and slow-ish pace - I know for me when I animate text I get familiar with what it says quite easily and can end up speed reading the text and not trying to view it as someone reading it for the first time. Hope that helps.
(oh and the Ultra Secure screen - I think you are missing a space on the last line where it says "theeggs")
@luckytiger - great shape man. Have you tried removing the "heavy" text when you start to take down the size? Even at the Poloniex size it may not be needed and the shape could just breath by itself. That's a legit iconic look man.
@kaduwall - strong entry - great to see you are playing around with the unicode H options. Have you tried making the inside border of the text ring a little more defined? I personally really like the second version in the line of three that you showed - what do you think if you turned off the text for this one and brought up the alpha of the sphere behind it? Could be interesting.
Also for the text, I appreciate the idea of clearly embedding the message of the coin around the edge, but just as something to play with, I posted some reference Latin quotes a few posts back (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)), just if you wanted to play with some options.
@Trivelius - solid shapes and really clean. I appreciate you acknowledging your sources and I think your idea is clearly influenced but not derivative of these. Only three things I would suggesst to try - maybe close the 1px gap between the H and the C to keep things simple.
Maybe increase the width of the circle border (I wouldn't want to see it too much thicker, but it looks like there might be a little room). Lastly I'd suggest just keep playing with colour combinations - feel free to PM me if you want to spam me a bunch of colour combinations and talk about it on the side.
@pipipipopopo - wow man, great entry. The H shape that you posted is obviously strong. The animation treatment in the lower right of your second post is simply brilliant, I can picture that so easily, and what you could do with it is endless. Only feedback I could really give you is that I know Keccak has expressed that he would like a logo that it "friendly" and commercially viable, where the aggressiveness of the saw teeth might be leading it away from this direction. But what a great shape to play with.
@BTCspoon - nice way to play with getting the H shape involved in the design, I'd encourage you to keep playing with it.
There's something that really draws the eye you the blue/white design on the top right of your image, I'd be worried that it starts to lose it's "H"-ness but there's something there for sure man. I think it might be the white cutting of on the right makes the it look like a C? Either way, I think if you let yourself fall down that rabbit hole you'll get some interesting results.
@mymenace - hey mate, cool design. I don't know if it;s intentional, but the way you're using that unicode symbol is adding a Japanese-ness that I really like (maybe I'm being crazy about the Japanese-ness, but the best way I can think to describe it). Have you tried pulling the vertical lines in a little bit so that where they intersect with the top vertical line happens inside the border? Also, I'd be tempted to let all the lines of the H character go completely in to the outer border and see what you think of it.
Great ideas guys and if I can say, the general strength of the shapes you guys are creating is so strong at this point - congratulations to all of you.
Cheers,
M
