I've said it before and I'm saying it again: It needs to be a parsnip. That's what springs to mind when you hear the name of your company, so that's what you need for a logo. Here are a few options: https://www.google.com/search?q=parsnip
I think a parsnip would also be an awesome logo. Before you discount it, remember that Sourcefire has a goofy looking cartoon pig.
Tarsnap logo contest
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Re: Tarsnap logo contest
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think a parsnip would also be an awesome logo. Before you discount it, remember that Sourcefire has a goofy looking cartoon pig.
So something like this, but less shit: http://i.imgur.com/30lVuJk.png
http://twitter.com/tqbf/status/384037360570089472/photo/1
(I'd have used FF Scala).
Vote parsnip!
Re: Tarsnap logo contest
#83edit: http://imgur.com/k6elBCU with masthead
Not a professional designer but I like mucking around in inkscape and it was a fun way to avoid work.
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#84I think you would end up with a better logo if you just did a call to your mailing list for designer recommendations, and paid a real designer $500 for a few hours of their work to come up with their best effort. By opening a contest, you're not only going to get a much lower quality of submissions, but in the end, the final decision is going to be made by you, someone "useless at anything artistic". Paying a designe…
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#85Re: Tarsnap logo contest
#86http://i.imgur.com/UP5d3gH.png edit: http://imgur.com/k6elBCU with masthead Not a professional designer but I like mucking around in inkscape and it was a fun way to avoid work.
(I quite like it, but if you replace that keyhole with a simple "A", it would be much better.)
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#88Re: Tarsnap logo contest
#89I think you would end up with a better logo if you just did a call to your mailing list for designer recommendations, and paid a real designer $500 for a few hours of their work to come up with their best effort. By opening a contest, you're not only going to get a much lower quality of submissions, but in the end, the final decision is going to be made by you, someone "useless at anything artistic". Paying a designe…
Question---how do designers who do this survive? $500 is not a lot of money---you'd need 100 of these projects/year to make 50K. Do designers do that many? If you've got bigger projects, something like this seems valuable as a sales tool rather than your bread and butter.