Logos / Icons I designed
Logos aren’t my main craft, but I keep coming back to them. A few turned out better than I expected:
GwBasic.net
June 2016
My first mark that actually worked, after the ‘N’ logo. I was deep in a Photoshop and Illustrator phase then; Illustrator mostly baffled me, so this one is pure Photoshop. I drew the splash screen too, and held it on screen by sleeping the thread before the app loaded. ;)
BlackArcX Logos
January 2020
BlackArcX was a company my friend (@ameerhmzx) and I invented for fun. The system: a 3x3 grid of dots, letters formed by connecting them with one fluid-like stripe. We drew all 26 letters on that grid — a few of them:
Exosoft
October 2020
Exosoft is a software house, and this was my first interactive SVG logo. Nothing literal fit the name, so I went abstract, and they took it. I also helped build their website.
Drawing it taught me how hard seemingly simple shapes are, and how to animate stroke length.
MPVIR Group Logo
August 2021
MPVIR Group stands for Machine Perception & Visual Intelligence Research Group, run by my final year project supervisor, with a site for publishing the group’s projects and papers. They already had a logo; I redesigned it unprompted after staring at it one afternoon. It never shipped.
The shutter animation borrows from Nigel Stanford’s music video for Automatica.
D-Square
September 2021
D-Square, aka Data Drive, is another software house. I redrew their logo, picked a font pair, and designed both their job advertisement and the HTML page for their jobs section.
Personal Logos
Once you can draw a few logos, friends and family start asking. I got as far as planning to do all of them so our chat avatars would match — a branded friend group. These are the ones I’d keep:
