Interesting. I looked at their site as well, but I was little more impressed by thelogocompany's samples. As I said, though, I'm not sure that we'd get anything better than koorb's logo from either of those places. (Different, I'm sure... but better is unknown, and subjective anyway.)
What you get from someone like Jon Hicks is an incredible level of detail. Look at the Firefox, Thunderbird or even the Rails logo and you'll see what I mean. Or check out his samples: http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/ His logos have very interesting texture and detail to them. (I guess I don't tend toward the austere...) One thing about koorb's logo idea that just hit me (bringing in the other message that wondered about our branding vs. J2EE, for example): it is a more "fun" logo than the current one. It may actually skew a little too "fun". (Not that I'm, in general, an opponent of fun, but we *are* competing for real attention as an application platform.) Consider koorb's logo: http://koorb.co.uk/turbogears/variations.html and the "under the hood" in use today (look on the far right): http://www.diggdot.us/ Kevin On 12/9/05, Sean De La Torre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently used logoworks.com for my business logo. After seeing what > they did for me, my dad also used them for his company's logo. Their > service was excellent, however, they are a little more expensive than > thelogocompany. > > Kevin Dangoor wrote: > > On 12/8/05, koorb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's good this topic has been brought up, although an apparently > > > trivial thing the look and brand can have a big impact on how something > > > is perceived. I rather liked the "turbogears under the hood" badges, > > > and the newer templates on the site are nice and clean but it would be > > > good to get some continuity. > > > > Very nice work. The G looks like a superhero emblem :) > > > > I was looking at this company which has done some surprisingly nice > > logos for surprisingly little money: > > http://thelogocompany.net/logo-design-example10.htm > > > > But, your logo idea seems as good as what we'd get from there. > > > > Kevin > > -- Kevin Dangoor Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: http://www.BlazingThings.com blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com
