Michael Kane, and his car console post made me think a lot about cleaning up my none existent car. I promise mike when I get my first car I will by that cool autobin car concole car trash thing, it looks great and i agree with mike, makes car seem so much cleaner.

Anyway this also gave me a logo idea for a new client of mine who is a big pain in the ass and im trying to finish the logo off as Mike asked me to take on long term contracts with him on an AMAZING new project, you will all know of it soon, it will be SO HUGE i am so honored he would let me in on it. Anyway, as for logo, this is what I came up with;

Not amazing but it first draft, tomorrow I send him finished version and hope he likes it. Client wanted a icon/logo/symbol that screams out I love Recycling. What better way than with a heart shaped recycle symbol. Unique I think and memorable. Let’s hope he likes finished version so i can focus more on the new HUGE HUGE project!

I have created maybe 10 free logos so far, banners and stuff too. Why? Because MK said so! This is the thing, I know I get around 500-900 unique readers a day depending on the day of the week, most love ANYTHING that’s free, you guys would probably eat a blackhat fish if it was free. So go join me and the rest of the guys over at ShoutingZone and check out the Get A Free Logo thread I started! You wont be disappointed!

I don’t know how long this will last but soon after it’s over i’ll be starting a Free Wordpress Blog Theme thread for all of you lovely people! Now what are you waiting for you mini me blackhat fishies! Go check it out!

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

It did not take long to figure out what these clients wanted. Network security was their business, and they wanted something a little different. Something they could brand and market well. Something that would be recognizable if seen without the product/service name.

After about 7 revisions (it happens, clients can be picky but then again, they’re the clients, always right) they went with this version, although not my personal favorite, they loved it, and that’s all that matters.

A Silk Scissor manufacturer wanted a new logo for one of their new multi silk blade products. (oolala) Supposedly it cuts even fine strands of silk, I was told i would get a pair to check out, logo done and no scissors. not like I’d have had a use for them anyway.

This was a challenge, it took me almost 3 hours of random sketching and then about 4 hours to implement. I was on a tight schedule to get this one done but as yu can see, the outcome was a good one. I created the scissor like vector graphic based on a photo they sent me, it’s simply showing the concept of several fine blades used to cut delicate silk.

While designing this logo, I did not want to focus on the logo, as much as the idea behind it. Silk, fine trimmed and precise, for a tool with so many blades, I managed to make it look like a delicate cutting tool.

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’.