Comments on: Blog Redesign: New Logo http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/ Knowledge comes from inspiration - one bit at a time Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:36:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ina http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12628 Ina Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:31:38 +0000 http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12628 Thank you Vivien, a pleasure! Surely your final version is just a flip away… If I was a computer person I may have shared the process but since I am not technical with programs, PC languages, illustrators and the lot, can't really detail it graphically. Once my graphics designer, my right hand, puts my paper scribbles and mind vision onto the screen I also share and explain the inspiration and details behind the final result then ask for input, (that is important)..... :) You guys are very detailed, technical, and speak a different to me language of the “Bits” and I admire that. Keep it up and be inspired! :) Thanks again for sharing! Thank you Vivien, a pleasure!
Surely your final version is just a flip away…
If I was a computer person I may have shared the process but since I am not technical with programs, PC languages, illustrators and the lot, can’t really detail it graphically. Once my graphics designer, my right hand, puts my paper scribbles and mind vision onto the screen I also share and explain the inspiration and details behind the final result then ask for input, (that is important)….. :) You guys are very detailed, technical, and speak a different to me language of the “Bits” and I admire that. Keep it up and be inspired! :) Thanks again for sharing!

]]> By: David Airey http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12627 David Airey Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:25:52 +0000 http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12627 You're very welcome, Vivien. Glad to be of any help possible. You’re very welcome, Vivien. Glad to be of any help possible.

]]> By: Vivien http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12625 Vivien Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:50:53 +0000 http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12625 David, I really appreciate your input here. I can see your point in favoring the sketch where the butterfly wings are filled out - that would certainly look better in smaller sizes, i.e. favicon. I'll be trying out other variations both with the logo and typeface for the name, and post about it here as well. Simonne, you're absolutely right about the loss of digital bits. You know what - you gave me an idea that I will try out on the logo that should preserve the concept of "traveling" bits ;-) Thank you. Lauren, thanks for your thoughts and suggestions. I do want to show the techy side in my new logo, so choosing Sans Serif for the BIT part should definitely help with that. lol @ flutterby. I was just about going with the question mark in the logo, but when I came up with the concept of butterfly I chose it instead, maybe because I've always admired their delicate beauty and relentless life style. Ina, thanks so much for the encouragement. I'm really glad I shared with you all my design process, and thankful for your input - it was invaluable, and re-charged me with new ideas to experiment with. So stay tuned. And good luck with your design process. Perhaps you should do the same and share it with your readers to get some more ideas and input? David, I really appreciate your input here. I can see your point in favoring the sketch where the butterfly wings are filled out - that would certainly look better in smaller sizes, i.e. favicon.
I’ll be trying out other variations both with the logo and typeface for the name, and post about it here as well.

Simonne, you’re absolutely right about the loss of digital bits. You know what - you gave me an idea that I will try out on the logo that should preserve the concept of “traveling” bits ;-) Thank you.

Lauren, thanks for your thoughts and suggestions. I do want to show the techy side in my new logo, so choosing Sans Serif for the BIT part should definitely help with that.
lol @ flutterby. I was just about going with the question mark in the logo, but when I came up with the concept of butterfly I chose it instead, maybe because I’ve always admired their delicate beauty and relentless life style.

Ina, thanks so much for the encouragement. I’m really glad I shared with you all my design process, and thankful for your input - it was invaluable, and re-charged me with new ideas to experiment with. So stay tuned.
And good luck with your design process. Perhaps you should do the same and share it with your readers to get some more ideas and input?

]]> By: Ina http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12610 Ina Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:05:56 +0000 http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12610 Hi Vivien, I truly like this design! It exudes freedom, freshness, life, as well as technicality and Computer-world stuff... I feel the best one is the one you have put first, the one you have kind of decided on beause the words feel like grass to me, tender and soft strings of grass which is an excelent complement of the gentle and free buterfly. May be try the B of "bit" to resemble more the B of the wings.... Surely you know deep down which one to choose :) I have been going trough a similar process with my Inspiring Wear logo :) let's see what comes out one day...:) Hi Vivien,

I truly like this design! It exudes freedom, freshness, life, as well as technicality and Computer-world stuff…

I feel the best one is the one you have put first, the one you have kind of decided on beause the words feel like grass to me, tender and soft strings of grass which is an excelent complement of the gentle and free buterfly.

May be try the B of “bit” to resemble more the B of the wings….

Surely you know deep down which one to choose :)
I have been going trough a similar process with my Inspiring Wear logo :) let’s see what comes out one day…:)

]]> By: LaurenMarie - Creative Curio http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12607 LaurenMarie - Creative Curio Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:12:37 +0000 http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12607 If you go with the butterfly, I really like the font you have in the very first digital version of the logo (no number next to it). It's quirky and cute, really fits with the butterfly. But as you <em>might</em> have seen, the caps for Bit needs a little work. Did you try a sans serif for it? Not sure how that would look... I was thinking "bit" as technology related, since sometimes your posts are techy and sometimes they are artsy. I love all your sketches! How did you choose?? I really, really like the idea and the sketches with the question mark. Those grab me much more than the butterfly. But I like the butterfly too (it really should be called a flutterby, you know, cuz that's what it does!) Just stopped by to let you know I'm still alive, but probably won't get back into the blogging scene regularly until the end of March (after my company's convention). Miss you all lots though!! If you go with the butterfly, I really like the font you have in the very first digital version of the logo (no number next to it). It’s quirky and cute, really fits with the butterfly. But as you might have seen, the caps for Bit needs a little work. Did you try a sans serif for it? Not sure how that would look… I was thinking “bit” as technology related, since sometimes your posts are techy and sometimes they are artsy.

I love all your sketches! How did you choose?? I really, really like the idea and the sketches with the question mark. Those grab me much more than the butterfly. But I like the butterfly too (it really should be called a flutterby, you know, cuz that’s what it does!)

Just stopped by to let you know I’m still alive, but probably won’t get back into the blogging scene regularly until the end of March (after my company’s convention). Miss you all lots though!!

]]> By: Simonne http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12605 Simonne Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:53:57 +0000 http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12605 I like the IB very much, and out of all typefaces, I think the best one is the one you've chosen to illustrate the logo. I like it because the letters are not perfectly aligned. The first thing that comes to my mind is freedom, maybe because the "t" doesn't end where it would have been expected to. Or maybe I got this feeling because I remembered the movie Butterflies Are Free. However, the idea of the computer bits (I don't know exactly how to call them, but you know, those ones who travel in bunches of 8) is lost. I like the IB very much, and out of all typefaces, I think the best one is the one you’ve chosen to illustrate the logo. I like it because the letters are not perfectly aligned. The first thing that comes to my mind is freedom, maybe because the “t” doesn’t end where it would have been expected to. Or maybe I got this feeling because I remembered the movie Butterflies Are Free.

However, the idea of the computer bits (I don’t know exactly how to call them, but you know, those ones who travel in bunches of 8) is lost.

]]> By: David Airey http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12600 David Airey Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:21:37 +0000 http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12600 Hi Vivien, It's not that I don't like the current iB butterfuly symbol (it's very creative), just that I prefer those two sketches I mentioned - particularly the second one, as I think it has a better balance, and would also work great as a favicon. Hi Vivien,

It’s not that I don’t like the current iB butterfuly symbol (it’s very creative), just that I prefer those two sketches I mentioned - particularly the second one, as I think it has a better balance, and would also work great as a favicon.

]]> By: Vivien http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12599 Vivien Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:49:47 +0000 http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12599 Thanks, Paul. #4 font on that list is BodoniXT. I did try Didot Regular, but it's a bit too thin for what I'd like to use. Jolene, welcome to Inspiration Bit and thanks for the compliments. That is quite a coincidence - if I hadn't called the butterfly a "delicate creature" (exactly like the name of your business), you would've not stumbled upon this blog/post ;-) Ronald, thanks for your 2 cents, though they're more like 2 dollars ;-) Thanks, Paul. #4 font on that list is BodoniXT. I did try Didot Regular, but it’s a bit too thin for what I’d like to use.

Jolene, welcome to Inspiration Bit and thanks for the compliments. That is quite a coincidence - if I hadn’t called the butterfly a “delicate creature” (exactly like the name of your business), you would’ve not stumbled upon this blog/post ;-)

Ronald, thanks for your 2 cents, though they’re more like 2 dollars ;-)

]]> By: Ronald Huereca http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12595 Ronald Huereca Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:32:16 +0000 http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12595 Hey Vivien. I really like #8 above. It's a very personable font and seems to go with how you write and interact with us. Just my 2 cents. Hey Vivien. I really like #8 above. It’s a very personable font and seems to go with how you write and interact with us. Just my 2 cents.

]]> By: jolene http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12592 jolene Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:02:44 +0000 http://www.inspirationbit.com/blog-redesign-new-logo/#comment-12592 hello there - i stumbled upon your blog through a Google Alert for my biz name. what a happy accident! i love the butterfly logo - it's just divine. :) hello there -

i stumbled upon your blog through a Google Alert for my biz name. what a happy accident! i love the butterfly logo - it’s just divine. :)

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