Logos

Here are my top 3 names and some design ideas for how they would look. The font is "Eurostile" with some web 2.0 curvy going on. I like the orange/gray/blue colors so I went with those.



Moving parts are what you look at, just as the upside down "i" is so obvious in this logo.






brickduck.com is open so I could just drop and "studio" or "design" after that. I like the "duck footsteps" walking away, but it still feels a little to boring right now. The name is so fun, it should have a fun logo!





What is 1 mile? The last mile between you and people looking at your webpage. Um, its how close every one will be no mater how far away you are. It sounds good? Anyway I like the lines a lot, so much energy. And the number "1" vs "one" gets shown off.

Names II

Ok, this list has been chewed over and over and here is what I have now. brickduck.com is still available, but all the rest need addendum's. I like "studios" now, lest constricting to future business.

MovingParts
1mile
Brick Duck
2nd Floor

+ Designs
+ Studios
+ Works


MovingParts makes me think of my initial project, flash based web pages.

1Mile is about bridging the last mile to people through web pages.

BrickDuck - I wanted to use bricks because of the apartment. I asked megan what she liked in names and she said, "ducks?" heh

2nd Foor - again, apartment driven.

Names

Names edited throughout the night:

MovingParts Design
1mile Design
First Mile Design
Hat+Feather Design
Snow+Hat Design
Red Feather Design
Blank Feather Design
Blank Hat Design
Bird Steps Design
HayPenny Design
3Gears Design
2nd Floor Design
1st Floor Design
Still Paced Designs

It's all business

So I have decided to do two things for jobs at the same time. One for the short term (gata pay those bills now!) and one for the long term that probably won't be making much money right away.

First, I got a job at the caf for 15 hrs a week at 7.15 pr hr refilling milk and drinks three mornings a week. Some how this strikes me as much better than serving food to people, much less stressful. I for sure get a free lunch during my shift that will be great. Mmm variety.. I also bet I get to take home some left overs too, but I won't know about that until I start. I start after second semester does, so thats the 7th of February I think.

The second path I will be going down is starting my own business. I have always been toying with it, but now is the time to do it. We had a talk with the Northfield Arts Guild this morning and the graphic designer who will do part of our post card stuff get $60 pr hour. Now I knew that was the price range, but for some reason hearing it at that moment made me say, 'hey, I wana do that!.'

So, step one of course is finding a name. Here are a few that I brainstormed with Derek:

• "Feather Hat"
• "Bird's Eye"
• "Water Wheel"

What do you think? Favorites? New ideas? I tend to obsess about these things.

The URL becomes a problem. Since this would be a web based affair (doing mostly flash based web pages to start) I would need a good one, but all of those and more have been bought by squatters who just sit on 1,000s of them. Even if you add "design" to the end, only featherhatdesign works. So you have to do "designs" or something like that. What do you think? I like Feather Hat because it brings to mind "a feather in your hat" and its a nice short thing to say. Of course Google "Feather Hat" and you get all sort of sill hat photos....

If this works, I could feasibly work at home next year making my commute *zero* and get a new (tax deductible) computer. It would work well around the VRC too, because I could make all my own hours. We will see...