DnHowTo has recently been launched by a friend of mine. I was asked to cook up an original looking yet simple horizontal navigation and I did, just PSD. He chose not to code it and instead used image mapping to bring it to life, but who cares, I like how it came out, it’s on a simple dark wordpress theme and it looks pretty cool.  I simply gave it that squre burst feel here and there like in his BG and kept it simple.I wanted to adda rollover effect to each but he opted not to go with that.

So Black Fish designs are not that common, fish logo’s actually are not that common, i think it’s because the shape of the fish is hard to implement in a cool way. I call this design the BlackHat Fish. It’s a logo, and a concept that I think would be great as a BlackHat Blogs logo or a forums logo perhaps. Maybe I should Message QuadsZilla or Eli or someone about the concept, they might like it enough to honor me by using it as their own, maybe not!

So how did I come up with this idea, well I didn’t, it just hit me! In the face! It’s simple, concept is origamy, which to me should give the feeling of patience, simplicity, complexity too, a calm and collected logo. Creative and unique, just something out there.

I always like to flip through magazines, check out photo galleries, read ebooks, comics, anything and everything that could inspire me, it’s all about inspiration.

Hope that inspired you, maybe these Photoshop brushes will help too! Anything to help, you know me!

Download this brush set (18 brushes)

Anyway, on the subject of Origami here’s a nice Ebook that you might be interested in, it gave me a lot of ideas while designing this logo!

DOWNLOAD IT BY CLICKING HERE

Update :

BlackHat Fish is, to me anyway, the process of playing with content in a way that it does not stink of spam, but is so full of shit that it knocks a bot out before it even gets crawled. Still it’s not fool proof, as there is no doubt Google is developing a way to detect the process I have just slightly described. In fact I would not be surprised whatsoever if they already have an ‘anti-algo’ to somewhat suppress the virtual mass of dupe/spam content filling up the internet and the Google index, at such a staggering rate!

In fact, if they don’t have one, they better get one soon as, to them, the problem has to be considered very dangerous. Imagine a scenario where, with the development of its revolutionary ‘relevance’ technology both in serving ads and in indexing the web as a whole, Google, now fattened from it’s billion dollar profits sits idly by and watches as it’s search engine becomes, well, irrelevant!

Not likely. But if it was to happen to the darling of today’s internet, it would be remembered as nothing short of a Shakespearean blunder on the grandest scale. We BlackHat Fish are innovators in our own right, we are the greatest.

We Black Hat Fish think global, who says you can only use content written in English for spam? You might be interested to know that I actually make a lot of money from non-English content as well, and I barely speak my own language!
Let me explain, quickly name the top 3 search engines in the world! NOW!

You said, Google Yahoo and MSN didn’t you? You are WRONG! Baidu (baidu.com which you may never have heard of) is one of the larges three search engines in the world today, Chinese based

Yes, we fishy blackhats know it all. -Ash

Recently I took on a role in an animation project for the site www.dnscammers.com

I was asked to design the [dot] in dnscammers[dot]com and their animation team worked on the animated version of my logo. You can see my logo in their splash page preview here.

The design work took around 4 hours, it works on both dark and light colored backgrounds. It was based off a black marble concept with 2 glass equator like striped running around each ‘pole’.