@petterm: Brief: My game journalism writing project Mutant Ink needs a logo inspired by Starbuck in Battle Star Galactica. Squared is ++.

Here I assumed that we are talking about Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in the 2004 of BSG, and not the male Lieutenant Starbuck original from 1978. It’s rare to see good portraits of strong female characters, so apparently it helps if you write for a male lead and then rewrites it as a female role some decades later.

The result is not as complex as the character Starbuck, she has lot’s of layers and good logos does not. The more direct and clear a logo communicates the better (in most design strategies). The name Mutant Ink is a strong name, it will look fine in most styles. I wanted it to be both an association of sci-fi and gaming, and of cause to look good in a square.

Download the Mutant Ink logotype »

The whole design took slightly under 2 hours and the music in today’s screencast is Gentle Touch – Pieter van den Hoogenband. And keep commenting and tweeting so I know what you like to hear more or less of. I would like to do a logo for bank, so if you know a marketing director at a cheap bank please tweet “You can still apply to Tomas’ free logo summer project, instructions at http://logotyp.se #logotypse” or tweet something else, just tweet if you like the project.

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