Hey all. I need to come up with a company name quite quickly. It needs to be top notch, clever and to form a great logo.
I not got time for the logo just yet, doing another logo and site and something else at home at the moment.
http://www.awwwards.com/99-creative-logo-designs-for-inspiration.html
I am capable of a logo of these standards, these are not only clever but look good. One fav of mine is the spartan golf one. Very good.
It is for website design and development.
Some words I been going around with are:
Panda, lab, labs, code, web, chimp, space, rhino, jungle, cloud
Im after two good words and for consideration for the URL : .com
I know I want two opposite like blue panda.com but something obviously cooler that when you say it sounds cool.
I'm on two pages of words at the moment and it is either exists or not tells right.
It needs to ping a great logo idea and theme for a aside, to many people do not realise how much the logo sets the tone and the quality for a whole site. Taking time to nail your company name and logo sets you well for everything.
I liked atomic apple as it is a play on Adams apple and the logo of an apple with atoms around it would be cool BUT it would always be too close to the Aplle logo so that is out.
Any ideas? Any good words?
Thanks
Melodramatic Mongoose
Bewildered Wildebeest
Badgering Badger
Rocket Propelled Goat
Sites with names like 'superjaguar' and 'electricmulehat' just smack of not being able to get a good domain IMO, so out come the 'zany' ideas, maybe I'm just old and not down with the whole hipster thing but can't you just make at least one word relevant to what you do?
Or am I just spectacularly missing the point :lol:
code rhino :)
Bewildered bear ;)
Bear hands
No I'm inclined to agree with matt here, I think the idea of funky monkey web design and all that is done to death, you'll look back in ten years and say "Horny Hedgehog, what was I thinking?"
I don't see what's wrong with something 'neXus' inspired, its a cool word on its own. I've kept it simple and no gimmicks with 'Clocked Web Development'.
If you are gonna go down this road, I'm voting Translucent Pterodactyl (pisser of a domain name, though)
Relevant words I like are 'kiwi' 'tiki' and 'pacific' but hell it's your website, but even just playing with those I can see your difficulty, any two words plopped together like 'kiwilabs' the .com has a 'for sale' on it :gag:
Couple of you missed the concept
Take a look and the logos in the link, these too:
http://www.instantshift.com/2011/06/09/60-latest-and-creative-logo-designs-for-design-inspiration/
Safari bar for example. Too nice words, great combination causing the double look.
The URL is short, the two words role together, it is easy to remember and creates your theme.
Nige, the basic name stuff which is you but no other meaning is the old school way and causes you to have actual no brand identity. Sites I have had to design and are crap like 3 I'll do soon are because of the logo and name with no identity to them.
A name sets your logo and theme and everything else .
Tekmonmeys works for that concept. It has meaning related to what it it is about on two levels. Little tricky logo wise it's been but it's along the concept of a good brand name.
Code rhino for example is close.
Quote from: matt5cott on January 27, 2012, 13:14:12 PM
Relevant words I like are 'kiwi' 'tiki' and 'pacific' but hell it's your website, but even just playing with those I can see your difficulty, any two words plopped together like 'kiwilabs' the .com has a 'for sale' on it :gag:
I do not want to go down the fern or kiwi line because it is done to death. Every company here is so unoriginal and you see 5 companies a day all with a fern on their van for example.
Gotcha, right, 'jungleflip' (all .XYZ available)
You have the clean word
'JUNGLE'
then underneath you have an upside-down jungle* with white text inside it of 'flip'
*please include an upside-down confused monkey.
If you really want to be smart about it, you could make it work so that whatever way 'up' you look at it, it looks/means something different.
edit - or even better, you have an upside-down jungle with the 'JUNGLE' text in it, and water at the bottom with 'flip' text in it, reflecting the jungle the 'right way up'
Okay, I have a better idea what you mean now. I think you should move away from animals/places though and spend a bit of time finding thinking of some really original - possibly more abstract - concepts. Otherwise I worry you'll end up with something no different to all the other brands on that site. The Spartan Golf one is possibly the best idea there, the others for the most part I think are uninspired.
Invisible Panda.
Tbh, if you chose a name that doesn't include the word panda, I will be upset
Quote from: Beanissocoollike on January 27, 2012, 15:03:49 PM
Invisible Panda.
Tbh, if you chose a name that doesn't include the word panda, I will be upset
Do we have to panda to your attentions? :dunno:
And as for the thread, can we all be paid £20 million for helping with your business? :ptu: :ptu:
Is it an IT related company? Some sense of genre may help guide suggestions.
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Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 27, 2012, 13:48:19 PM
Okay, I have a better idea what you mean now. I think you should move away from animals/places though and spend a bit of time finding thinking of some really original - possibly more abstract - concepts. Otherwise I worry you'll end up with something no different to all the other brands on that site. The Spartan Golf one is possibly the best idea there, the others for the most part I think are uninspired.
Funny that, pretty much most of those are critically acclaimed, wont say which but a number of them have walked away with logo and branding awards last year :P
Quote from: sexytw on January 27, 2012, 19:58:39 PM
Is it an IT related company? Some sense of genre may help guide suggestions.
Blue Carrot
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Not quite the right concept, these are just two words together with no meaning. Check out the links to logo's to see what I mean.
You're probably better off coming up with one yourself as it's your website - keep thinking about it for the next 24 hours and the idea might well come to you late at night or when having a shower and it will be better than anything anyone else will come up with having thought a out it for a minute at most.
here's a random one...
thinkCloud
White brain set amongst a few clouds, blue background. Or maybe just sort of brain shaped cloud alone on blue background.
(sort of current as cloud computing is big now)
.com domain has gone though...
You'll easily have a better idea, I doubt much good will come from stuff any of us will post as we don't care as much as you do about the site and will only consider this 'concept' for the 30seconds or so it takes us to reply to this thread.
Best brand name key points are
1.Stickyness - just sticks in your head.
2. shorter and sweet the better
3. functional - Can use it in what your brand is.
4. tells a story
5. Making a new word.
You can take say two words and make up a new word. Mozilla is Mozilla Godzilla for example. (If you did not know :) )
Will there be payment for this company name and concept logo? I'm sure i can think of something if your going to buy me a 530D Touring for my effort!
Quote from: neXus on January 27, 2012, 20:15:46 PM
Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 27, 2012, 13:48:19 PM
Okay, I have a better idea what you mean now. I think you should move away from animals/places though and spend a bit of time finding thinking of some really original - possibly more abstract - concepts. Otherwise I worry you'll end up with something no different to all the other brands on that site. The Spartan Golf one is possibly the best idea there, the others for the most part I think are uninspired.
Funny that, pretty much most of those are critically acclaimed, wont say which but a number of them have walked away with logo and branding awards last year :P
Most of them also look like 5 mins with Photoshops text tool, a nice font and Blending Options to me :P
The 'Twins' logo is a perfect example of something that would take 5 mins to achieve, its not brilliant or clever, it's the sort of logo I was coming up with for the first websites I did. These big concept logos do nothing for me and I think are all part of the web 2.0 bubble thats growing tiresome. Some of them are great, but if that Twins logo won an award I'll be bloody surprised.
Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 28, 2012, 13:08:06 PM
Some of them are great, but if that Twins logo won an award I'll be bloody surprised.
Bit harsh, it's a classic IMO
(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTgwNzYwNTQ0OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzk1ODcxMQ@@._V1._SY317_CR5,0,214,317_.jpg)
Ok, I'm leaving already ;D
I didn't look at those logos before.... you're right.... they're utter utter crap
if I was paying someone for a logo and they tried to give me that crap I'd refuse to pay and I'd be very tempted to give the designer a slap for good measure
Quote from: neXus on January 27, 2012, 20:16:54 PM
Quote from: sexytw on January 27, 2012, 19:58:39 PM
Is it an IT related company? Some sense of genre may help guide suggestions.
Blue Carrot
Framed Stag
Orange Culture
Origin Unknown
Not quite the right concept, these are just two words together with no meaning. Check out the links to logo's to see what I mean.
It wouldn't be the first company I've met where I have no clue what they do from the name.
I don't know..... Kiwi Code Store :tinhat:
The logo that you thought was the most simple will be the one that probably took the most time.
It takes time to get to such a simple and effective concept through a lot of different concepts narrowed down and then refined. Coming up with that concept itself you may think is obvious looking at it but to do that: it's not.
Eagle would testify to that.
(http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/5651/sh*tf.png)
first offer over £10,000 gets it !
Quote from: neXus on January 28, 2012, 20:02:10 PM
The logo that you thought was the most simple will be the one that probably took the most time.
It takes time to get to such a simple and effective concept through a lot of different concepts narrowed down and then refined. Coming up with that concept itself you may think is obvious looking at it but to do that: it's not.
Eagle would testify to that.
This is what I said about taking your time and thinking of something more abstract :) Twins with a 2 turned sideways should not have taken a long time to think of IMO. Maybe it was the best of a bunch of ideas? Who knows, I still maintain it looks like a quick and simple knock up, regardless of how effective it is. I do logos like that all the time for clients that don't pay much ;)
I got one now and logo and theme concept.
There you go... coming up with one yourself was prob the best thing to do all along.
What did you you come up with in the end?
Quote from: Dave on January 29, 2012, 15:56:32 PM
There you go... coming up with one yourself was prob the best thing to do all along.
What did you you come up with in the end?
Always take the positive and negative advise now, often find the latter the best. The bad examples, the ones off direction etc helped narrow it down.
You have to find one that is cool but one that has not been done and one you can get the domain for. I got the domain and I will get the logo done before showing off. Logo will make the sense of it. (Firefly slang)
Explain it when that is done. I got to finish drawing decent monkeys first for something else.
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Quote from: Beanissocoollike on January 30, 2012, 15:59:47 PM
If you didn't like or want our help, then don't ask for it! Simple as, do it yourself
I don't think that's what he said at all, I read it as "I didn't go with any of your ideas, but thanks, they helped narrow it down to what I was actually looking for"
Quote from: Beanissocoollike on January 30, 2012, 15:59:47 PM
If you didn't like or want our help, then don't ask for it! Simple as, do it yourself
Not what I said at ALL! :(
Why is it someone says a word on the negative scale people jump on you?
A good to great designer/developer knows that the negative is as or even more powerful then the positive feedback.
There were some interesting thoughts and the reactions to my concepts and what I was after. I took that in but I also took in some of the nice ideas as well.
So did this help? Yes it did and why I said thank you.
Quote from: Mongoose on January 30, 2012, 18:22:26 PM
Quote from: Beanissocoollike on January 30, 2012, 15:59:47 PM
If you didn't like or want our help, then don't ask for it! Simple as, do it yourself
I don't think that's what he said at all, I read it as "I didn't go with any of your ideas, but thanks, they helped narrow it down to what I was actually looking for"
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Quote from: Serious on January 30, 2012, 21:46:43 PM
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Quote from: Serious on January 30, 2012, 21:46:43 PM
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