Working on a logo...need opinions...

Kalindras

Kalindras

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Howdy, All...

Well, I've been making for a couple of years, now. Just delivered out some of the most recent pieces (working on getting pics up), and I figure it's about time that I came up with a logo for my little venture...Knife-Order Specialties Steelworks (or as I affectionately call it, K-OS).

I've been tinkering around with a couple of ideas, and I've come up with three possibles. My goal is to keep it simple and clean enough that it will be legible when reduced to etch on a blade. Yet, it still has to express the slightly off-kilter attitude I take in all things, knifemaking included.

Thus, I present the following (very rough, they will bear some refinement, if I continue to develop them further):

KOSLogo02.jpg


KOSLogo03.jpg


KOSLogo04.jpg


That last one would be used without the text, if I go with it. I'm thinking I'd go with the text, for any advertisement that I might do in the future, though. Something along the lines of "Know Infinity--Order from K-OS!" And let my ego write a few hot checks, while I'm at it...

I dunno...I kinda favour that second one...something whimsical in me. What are the thoughts of the viewing public?!?



:D
 
know infinity inplies knowlage. you sign would inplie no as in none.which way do you want to go?
 
Just a thought. Not a week goes by that you don't see someone trying to identify the maker of a knife they got somewhere. These knives are usually marked with either initials, or some form of logo.
Usually they are never identified. JMO, but you might want to mark your blades with, first initials, last name, city and state. You can get all that on a logo and still keep it pretty small. :)
 
Rhino--

Not to sound too full of it, but that's part of what I'm going for. Ideally, I would love to find a symbol which (without infringing on anybody's copyrights or trademarks) signifies "Chaos." Unfortunately, in lieu of finding anything so succinct, I'm falling back to this type of design to give the impression of it. Chaos is confusing. It springs up whenever, wherever (but seems to keep a home address at my shop!). Thus, the "Know Infinity!" logo encapsulates (to me, at least--everyone else may think it's perfectly stupid) a world of contradictions and possible views, the way that Chaos does. Considered one way, "Know Infinity" encourages one to grasp the boundless. Viewed another "No Infinity" draws into question that which lies beyond our grasp. And from the Chaos that the image inspires when you first see it, will come the order you will impose, when you decide how to read it. Or maybe, having made a snap judgement and chosen order, you'll begin to consider that it might mean something else? The symbol can be read literally or phonetically, to derive that which the reader desires to take from it. I like that. It's obtuse. Just like a bunch of my work. Sure, I make a bunch of pretty straightforward pieces. But I also loooove to make the weird stuff. The stuff that practically everyone looks and says either, "What IS it?" or, "Why'd ya make THAT?!?"

And I don't often wander off into the land of the Esoteric, now...do I? :rolleyes:

Mike,

Yeah, I know it flies in the face of marketing sense and good judgement, but my feeling has always been, if you make a big enough impression on a customer, through style, effort, practices and product, they'll remember you, even if all you mark with is an "X." If folks forget me, then I guess I didn't try hard enough in one of those fields...or they're having a momentary brain-dump. With my luck, I could include a dog-tag with all of my info as an inlay on every knife, and people would simply lose the knife, anyway!! :D

Hey, if anyone has any other thoughts, or even wants to offer suggestions for other logos, I'll be happy to hear/look/think on/at/around/about them!! Heck, if you can come up with one I just fall in love with, I could probably even see my way to trading you a knife for it!! It'd have to be REALLY weird, though... :p

[edited to fix evil smileys.]
 
I agree with Mike Hull, I started off with a logo and then my initials, and I had a Big name knife maker come over to my table at a show once and said to me, oh I see that your not proud of you knives. I said yes I was very proud of what I had made and he said to me then why don't you put your name on them, from that day on I either use my last name or full name and city and state.
 
Howdy There....!
Man, they are your knives, you put whatever you want to on them...! Until someone buys it, it is yours. I like the first design and think that it looks the best. Good luck with your choice.

Later "Possum":cool:
 
Kalindras, take a pic of under the bench. I know there's some pretty good Chaos under my bench:D
 
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