Marko needs a new logo!

[patrick-steele-idem]

Let's create some logos for Marko!

I'll start things off with a really rough sketch of an idea:

Please feel free to take that idea and make it better or come up with something completely different.

All logos submitted here will be assumed to be licensed as public domain / CC0.

Contributors to the final logo will get credit on the main page and a custom printed T-Shirt with the logo on it!

[piotr-dajlido]

[piotr-dajlido]

[patrick-steele-idem]

@pdajlido I like the logo with the pink lettering because it is simpler. I like the visual elements added around the lettering, but what is the meaning of the lattice decoration?

Also, I think it works well if the graphic part of the logo could be used independent of the "Marko" text and for the graphic part to be easily recognizable and unique (if that makes sense).

[piotr-dajlido]

:D these are the '< >' it all can be customised I have .ai files saved

[patrick-steele-idem]

Instead of ><>< (which looks like two X's), I would lean more towards <><> since it matches how the characters would appear in an HTML tag. Maybe something can be done with a double diamond :)

[seangates]

Dumb, but worth the "idea".

[piotr-dajlido]

[philidem]

I like the upper-right "M" logo. Might want to create a companion logo that contains "Marko" as well. I do like the diamond concept.

[philidem]

I didn't see two "X"s at first but now that's all I see for "><><". Maybe "<><>" As @patrick-steele-idem suggested would be better.

[philidem]

@seangates Even "dumb" ideas can inspire something better! What is "Mark" though? Just kidding :)

[patrick-steele-idem]

[philidem]

@patrick-steele-idem Maybe ".Marko" instead of "Marko."

Or maybe ".marko" (lower case)

[seangates]

@philidem Yeah, I saw that as soon as I made it, but said, "What the heck? Worth a post."

[patrick-steele-idem]

[piotr-dajlido]

Since Marko is a dudes name I gave him some personality

[patrick-steele-idem]

Hah, nice @pdajlido! I'm curious as to what others think of adding a character to the logo, but I might like it :) A logo with a character seems to have worked well for Yeoman

[patrick-steele-idem]

Also, for Marko Widgets you could modify the dude to be a mad scientist.

[piotr-dajlido]

Some Urban Style.

[piotr-dajlido]

Alright time to leave Illustrator. Good night Gentleman!, I will be bugging you tomorrow since I haven't implementetd optimizer yet ;)

[patrick-steele-idem]

Thanks for the contributions, @pdajlido!

[patrick-steele-idem]

[onemrkarthik]

Maybe you could play around with the color...

[maberer]

Some thoughts (additional love to detail required):

• the brackets at the end should appear 3D "stacked"; meaning: tags can be wrapped... forming components... the "k" and the first bracket form the letter "o"
• the font should appear dynamic, "agile", quick and nice
• the sub text describes marko as template engine with binding (behavior) and gives an insight about how marko components are written

[patrick-steele-idem]

Hey folks, while we had a some great submissions we decided to get the help of some professionals. We started a logo contest on 99designs.com yesterday and are getting some great submissions:

https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/create-logo-marko-open-source-programming-project-ebay-531819/entries

If you have any thoughts please share so that we can provide feedback to the designers. Also, after the contest progresses some more I'll share a poll so that we can get more input. Thanks!

[philidem]

Link to contest entries?

[patrick-steele-idem]

Accidentally pressed the wrong button... Comment updated with link to contest. Thanks.

[SirParadox]

Lol how about some fancy..

${marko}

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On 8/5/2015 1:53 PM, Patrick Steele-Idem wrote:

Accidentally pressed the wrong button... Comment updated with link to contest. Thanks.

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[maberer]

haha had a funny idea.... marko and an abstract grining face

[patrick-steele-idem]

Hi folks,

We created two separate polls to help us choose a logo (99designs.com limits each poll to only 8 logos each):

Poll 1: https://99designs.com/logo-design/vote-d19zuf
Poll 2: https://99designs.com/logo-design/vote-3qyhyb

Please vote! Thanks!

[patrick-steele-idem]

Hi folks,

Thank you all for the votes in the earlier polls! We have one more poll (last one, I promise). Please give your ratings for the last set of designs:

Final poll: https://99designs.com/logo-design/vote-bdarln

We will use the final poll to help select the winner. Thanks in advance!

[patrick-steele-idem]

Marko has a new logo!

[maberer]

Well deserved, congrats Marko!