Seeking Logo Input

Monday, May 21st, 2012

So the Steve’s Quest concept art team and I have been working on a logo design for the show.  I started out by suggesting that the logo use the metallic style of the logos of 1980s hard rock and heavy metal bands.  By this, I mean bands like:

and

This style, I figured, is not only in keeping with the show’s musical approach, which is a playful homage to ‘80s hard rock with a few contemporary elements thrown in, but is also amusingly ironic.  After all, the show is about a software engineer who, at least at the beginning, leads a pretty humdrum, non-epic, non-Norse mythological hero-like life.

We experimented with a few logo possibilities.  The first idea we came up with looked, in my opinion, too spiky and ninja shuriken-like, and might scare people away:

Another idea we explored had, to my mind, science-fiction overtones, with the sleek and unusual shapes used for its first and last letters.  I wasn’t totally sold on this one, because I was concerned that people might not understand what it said:

What I eventually decided to do was ask that the most prominent “spikes” be removed from the “shuriken” logo I showed you earlier, while keeping the appearance that the logo was forged from stainless steel or mithril (preferably in the fires of Hades or Mt. Doom):

This worked better for the people in my life who were generous enough to comment.  However, a few still had trouble deciphering the words because of the two backwards “E”s.  I personally like the backwards letters (maybe it comes from never having been able to produce legible handwriting), but hey — now that I’m in show biz, I should probably pay some attention to audience input.

So, here is what we most recently came up with, which is 100% “forwards” and hopefully 100% comprehensible:

Any comments would be most appreciated!

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  1. Seeking Fictional Corporate Logo Ideas
  2. The Grate: Seeking Your Input on a Future Project
  3. Meet the Steve’s Quest Team, Part 2
  4. Your Opinion On A Song
  5. Meet the Steve’s Quest Team, Part 3, and More Groundbreaking Concept Art


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6 Responses to “Seeking Logo Input”

  1. Evan Says:
    May 21st, 2012 at 5:06 pm

    I think the last one is easily the best.

  2. Evelyn Lim Says:
    May 22nd, 2012 at 4:59 am

    It has been such a long time and I thought that you have decided to completely disappear. So it is nice that you have actually been busy and working on a fun project. The backward Es look great but I also think go with the last one. I look forward to reading more updates :-)

  3. Davina Haisell Says:
    May 22nd, 2012 at 6:54 am

    Hi Chris.

    I prefer the last one too. I really love the flavour of this logo.

    I hope it’s okay if I offer come constructive feedback :) I’m not an expert or anything, but this is what occurred to me when I first looked at this.

    I find the “T” in “Quest” a little busy and even though I know it is the letter “T” my eye always is drawn there, a little distracted by the descender; it also wants to read it as an “L.” The other letters look fabulous.

    The word “Steve’s” is perfect! I love the apostrophe :) The lines and angles in that word are quite optically pleasing.

  4. Chris Says:
    May 22nd, 2012 at 9:11 am

    Hi Evan — thanks for the feedback.

  5. Chris Says:
    May 22nd, 2012 at 9:11 am

    Thanks Evelyn — I plan to post on the show every day — I definitely am not lacking for material.

  6. Chris Says:
    May 22nd, 2012 at 9:12 am

    Hi Davina — thanks for the feedback. I’ll give some thought to what can be done with the “T”.