Hello fellow Hivers! I hope you've been having some creative and productive days and are doing well. Today I'd like to enlist your aid as a bit of a focus group! I need some fresh sets of eyes on this logo idea that popped in my head, so that I can figure out if it's simple quirky fun... or total crap!
But first off I want to take a second to thank everyone who's joined the Creating Comics community so far. We're up to a dozen subscribers (okay, okay... two of those accounts are just me, but whatever!) and I've already really enjoyed the engagement and conversation on one of my first posts into Creating Comics. In that post I offered up a free issue of Draw! magazine, and there's still a couple days left to get in on that contest, so check it out if you haven't already!
Now, down to business.
I had a few minutes tonight to start mocking up a possible logo for the community. It's very simple, but it's an idea that came to me and I thought... "Huh, that could be kinda fun."
It's simply the Hive logo, colored to look like a pencil! Voilà!
I like the idea of tying the branding closely in with Hive. In a lot of my communications I've even been referring to the community as "Creating Comics on Hive."
I made two quick variations, one being the classic #2 style pencil almost anyone would be familiar with, while the other is more a tribute to a classic Staedtler style drafting pencil.
There are pros and cons to each. The recognizability of the classic pencil is nice, along with the fact that it might speak equally to the writing aspect of creating comics as opposed to just the visual. However the drafting pencil has more ties to creativity in my mind, while the classic pencil could just as easily be a logo for an accounting or test prep community!
Of course, all that's relevant only if they both aren't complete rubbish!
So what do you think of the idea? Clever? Lazy? Fun? Stupid? Let me know in the comments and feel free to contribute any ideas of your own.
I continue to look at the best possible ways to start recruiting and onboarding new users from outside of the Hive ecosystem. In the meantime, if you know anyone who might be interested in the topic of Creating Comics, please refer them to me! I'm more than prepared to create accounts and delegate starting Hive Power to new members. You can contact me here, or have interested parties reach out to me on any of my existing social media.
https://www.instagram.com/bryanimhoff/
https://www.facebook.com/bryantheimpimhoff/
https://twitter.com/imhoff_bryan
Have a good rest of the night and be sure to take some time to draw, write, or at least daydream!
