Go Logo!

So we have a name, now we need a logo. The name Terrapin means sea turtle or it does to me, some say it means regular turtle. So I am looking for a turtle/mapping based logo. I actually am throwing a hundy at a logo design company to see if they come up with anything decent but I have a lot of industry expertise at my disposal for this. For one thing my good friend here in Dallas, lets call him MamouDogFace, is a VP of marketing, has degrees in graphic design and artsy stuff and is basically like a professional free-lance photographer so is like, really artistically minded. He, for example would be able to come up with something better than the lame-assed kiddie scrawl I came up with (at left).

Actually the concept of a sea turtle with a map on its back I rather like and if it looked like a cave drawing I would accept that as well but I am still hoping something else will emerge. I was going for cave drawing but with MS Paint you can only get so close to what you are envisioning. That should be their slogan: "MicroSoft - kind of close to what you are envisioning, almost every time." Anyway, as near as I can tell, MamouDogFace is pretty excited about the project so we'll see what he comes up with. The nice thing about working with MamouDogFace as opposed to some of my other friends is that MamouDogFace is not a heavy drinker, so I don't have to buy MamouDogFace enough whiskey to float his entire carcass just to get him to work for free. The one regret I have about MamouDogFace is nicknaming him 'MamouDogFace' in this blog, as it is tricky and arduous to type. These are the difficult things a small-business owner has to face every day though, and I feel I am equal to the challenge.

In addition to MDF there is my business partner, Chakka who is quite adept at this type of design but of course if I allocate him to the task, he is not working on Important Things like getting the business running and spell-checking my blog. He will be a great editor and idea generator for the logo but we wont occupy too much of his time with it. Nor should I be occupying too much of my time with it as there are many other things for me to work on as well.

More on Logos later . . .