[Lapper]

dsrb, on 02 April 2012 - 05:25 AM, said:

I'm all over the wavy lines, if only that “THE” can be enlarged to fill that gap in the upper left corner.

Edit: Including resizing the other words if necessary. Why aren't “MOBIUS” and “ENGINE” just the same size, anyway? If anything, it should be the opposite and the former should be larger, but I don't know if any disparity between the two is necessary. Perhaps “THE” should be smaller in any case, though.

I can see what you mean, but I think it fits together nicely the way it is. If they were both the same size, where would "The" go nicely?

[Caniad Bach]

Elratauru, on 01 April 2012 - 12:30 PM, said:

Well, this is my final take of it I guess:

[many many logos]

I actually prefer the first one (Top left). It's got a really cool Sonic 2-esque vibe, whilst the logo has the mobius strip effect and the Sonic/Sega blue without looking like the Google Chrome logo.

[acrazyplayer]

All I know is, it's gonna be hard to choose just one design to pick for the actual logo.

I think it may be better if there is a vote. Not necessarily vote for all of them but vote for 1 out of 5 or something.

[LocalH]

I have two further variations. One is entirely based on the variations most recently posted, using the basic design from the "wavy lines" version with the dots from the other version on top and bottom of "THE MOBIUS ENGINE" (and spacing of the same slightly adjusted for internal consistence). I also took that variation and enlarged the "THE" to occupy the remainder of the width difference between "MOBIUS" and "ENGINE", and shifted it downward to align the baseline with "MOBIUS". Uploading to Imageshack as we speak, will post them shortly.

Edit: Here they are. Full size, as found in the PSD.





I also feel that the all-blue variation on the strip itself should be considered depending on the particular usage (for example, if being placed on a red- or yellowish-orange-heavy background, as an alternative to outlining the logo).

This post has been edited by LocalH: 04 April 2012 - 05:05 PM

[Gen]

acrazyplayer, on 02 April 2012 - 02:21 PM, said:

All I know is, it's gonna be hard to choose just one design to pick for the actual logo.

I think it may be better if there is a vote. Not necessarily vote for all of them but vote for 1 out of 5 or something.

May as well I suppose. Let's narrow it down to three, and we'll put it to a vote.

I'd say the first variation of LocalH's looks pretty decent. The second one I'm not so happy with the size of "The"; it just doesn't seem to flow very well.

[Candescence]

I love LocalH's first one, as well. Probably my favourite version of the logo, yet.

[TheInvisibleSun]

Candescence, on 08 April 2012 - 05:16 AM, said:

I love LocalH's first one, as well. Probably my favourite version of the logo, yet.

I also vote for this one. It's perfect.

[mitaknight]

I'll vouch for LocalH's first variation as well. The second one's "the", despite it's different color, could actually trick people into thinking it says "Themobius". Yes, there are people like that out there. :P Size and proximity is important like that.

[The Growler]

While I agree the first one looks better than the 2nd, there's still this niggling feeling that the position it's in doesn't look quite right - almost as though there's supposed to be something there to the left of "THE"; or, maybe move Mobius slightly to the left a bit so it doesn't feel too 'squashed' to the right?

[LocalH]

As I was looking at it, I like the original positioning much better. It looks like the proportions are based on the Golden Ratio, which I didn't notice at first.

[Elratauru]

LocalH, on 10 April 2012 - 04:54 PM, said:

As I was looking at it, I like the original positioning much better. It looks like the proportions are based on the Golden Ratio, which I didn't notice at first.

Oooh, I was hoping someone would notice that :P If you take a Golden Spiral, and place it above the logo, you'll see that the spiral ends on the center of the words "The, Mobius and Engine", making a really nice startup point to start "reading" the logo. Both the Mobius and Engine words have their own importance here, however while mobius is smaller, it has color. Making it different enough while comparing it to the Engine part of the logo, which I must say its also important.

Edit; typo.

This post has been edited by Elratauru: 10 April 2012 - 08:36 PM

[Gen]

Elratauru, on 01 April 2012 - 12:30 PM, said:

Well, this is my final take of it I guess:

LocalH, on 04 April 2012 - 04:58 PM, said:

I have two further variations. One is entirely based on the variations most recently posted, using the basic design from the "wavy lines" version with the dots from the other version on top and bottom of "THE MOBIUS ENGINE" (and spacing of the same slightly adjusted for internal consistence). I also took that variation and enlarged the "THE" to occupy the remainder of the width difference between "MOBIUS" and "ENGINE", and shifted it downward to align the baseline with "MOBIUS". Uploading to Imageshack as we speak, will post them shortly.

Edit: Here they are. Full size, as found in the PSD.



I also feel that the all-blue variation on the strip itself should be considered depending on the particular usage (for example, if being placed on a red- or yellowish-orange-heavy background, as an alternative to outlining the logo).

I'm narrowing things down to the bottom right-most logo in Elratauru's selection, and LocalH's variant above. Expect a vote momentarily.

EDIT: Vote's up.

This post has been edited by Gen: 14 April 2012 - 08:04 PM

[Black Squirrel]

I knew it was familiar

not that this matters much, just thought it was worth pointing out sooner rather than later.

[Gen]

Well everyone, looks like LocalH's modifications ended up making the cut!

His variation on the logo one by a close 10 - 13.

[LocalH]

Not that I changed much, but after a gentle prodding I have provided Gen with my PSD file.