[Swansea Hackspace] Logos

[Tom Lloyd]

When I was brainstorming ideas I tried to think of something that would say
"Swansea", but nothing came to mind.  None of the other hackspaces seem to
have their location embedded in their logo, so I figured that while it
would be nice, it's not a big deal if we don't either.  If anyone can think
of anything, let's hear it.

Colour-wise I went for greens and browns to evoke a community, grass-roots
feel.  Red does that quite nicely too, in its own way.

I think logo 3 seems to be the favourite so far.  I'm in the middle of
tweaking it to fit the established "Hackspace H" better in any case, so
I'll post a few variations on that when it's ready.

-- Tom


On 6 April 2013 13:01, Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 20:06 +0100, Tom Lloyd wrote:
> > Evening all,
> >
> >
> > As promised, I've come up with a few candidate logos for our fledgling
> > group.  You can find them here, along with my initial ideas page which
> > I used as a sort of mood board:
> >
> > https://sucs.org/~tlloyd87/hackspace/
> >
> >
> > All 3 designs feature a hammer and soldering iron.  No particular
> > reason for this, but they represent what we're about fairly well, and
> > have distinctive silhouettes for that blocky "no frills" look.
> >
> > I've tried not to be constrained by the "Big H" hackspace design -
> > while there's nothing inherently wrong with it there are only so many
> > variations you can make, and I see no reason why we shouldn't deviate
> > if we want to.  In any case, logo3 should look somewhat familiar :)
>
> I am rather fond of the "Big H", it is already well establish as meaning
> hackspace, what i was really hoping for was something that would
> hint/suggest Swansea about it.
>
> Taking just the city logo shade of red isnt enough on its own as its too
> similar a shade to the original logo, hence wanting an additional tweak.
>
> i have mashed together logo 3, the big H and the city colour, but i fear
> its still not quite right somehow.
>
> http://sucs.org/~arthur/hackspace/
>
>
>
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