It's always Friday in +friday.
The Phoenyx' earliest logo, back when we were a dialup BBS, was
an ASCII-art phoenix. When baud rates jumped (to 2400, which
today would be expressed as 2K), we used a Corel 3 clipart
phoenix, converted to ANSI-art.
has a
small version.
Unfortunately the Origins convention picked the same critter to
grace its T-shirt one year, so we decided not to look like a copycat
(even though we used it first) when we moved to the web. Since the
Phoenyx has always been a bit of a minimalist site, I decided to
make our logo reflect that, so instead of a whole phoenix, our logo
became a phoenix feather. That is, a feather on fire.
Now, I don't remember the exact year we switched to that, but I
could find out just by figuring when In Nomine hit the shelves... with
a cover featuring a flaming feather. Sigh.
So lately I was playing around with XNews' new X-face feature,
which sticks nifty little 48x48 b&w icons in the headers of news
posts, and certain newsreaders can decode them. I reduced the
Phoenyx logo and stuck it in there just for the heck of it. Outside
the roleplaying groups, it got some attention... it was mistaken for
a flaming ear of corn.
Corn.
Okay, that's the final straw, it's time for a new Phoenyx logo.
Anybody want to take a shot at it? Ideally, it needs to be reducible
to 48x48 b&w legibly, be suitable for the New Phoenyx look (see,
for example,
...the logo needs to fit in the box, preferably with whitespace in the
upper right corner although the text could be moved), and not be
ugly. It can connote "roleplaying" or "PBeM/online gaming" rather
than "a mythical bird," if you can figure out how to do *that*.
Oh, and there's no particular reward for doing so, other than credit.
Although we could put you on the wish list page at
and maybe people will send you neat stuff.
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Karen J. Cravens (silver@phoenyx.net)
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