Simidude logo
Torsten Uhlmann
—Fri, 14 Nov 2008

Photo by Torsten Uhlmann
You don’t believe all the steps involved in creating an application! One of those things you forget most easily is having a logo for your aplication. Something your app is identified with. Now since my artistic skills are rather underexposed I wisely decided to hire someone to create a logo. Thankfully the guys at BOS discussed this matter in a recent thread so all I had to do was to check out the mentioned and recommended artists. I ended up with Arslogodesign and I’m very pleased so far. At first contact you basically fill out some briefing information that tells them about your company/product, your ideas etc. They then develop 5 drafts for you from which you can choose one which in multiple steps would be refined afterwards. Here are these 5 logos:
After some discussion we settled on the first version. I feel it represents the nature of the application quiet well. Another side effect is that I can use the joint squares as theme for an application icon. Oh well, an application icon is the next thing I need to get done…