{"id":823,"date":"2013-04-21T15:53:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T20:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2013-04-21T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T21:06:56","slug":"drafting-the-insect-mecha-battle-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/promotional\/drafting-the-insect-mecha-battle-logo","title":{"rendered":"Drafting the &#8220;Insect Mecha Battle&#8221; Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the side projects we&#8217;ve got going on at Ottoman HQ is the design of the &#8220;Insect Mecha Battle&#8221;\u00a0Tournament logo, which adorns the flags and banners of the &#8220;Ottoman&#8221; world.\u00a0The ideal logo design would serve as a visual signature for the project as a whole, while still fitting the art style of the film. We aimed for a vintage 1960s silhouette design, taking special inspiration from the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saul_Bass#Logos_and_other_designs\" title=\"Saul Bass wikipedia entry\">Saul Bass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We began with some core motifs: beetles, crossed sabers, gears and skulls, and tried to see what we could distill into a striking and iconic emblem. The six designs below are some of the rough concepts that we&#8217;ve developed along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/six-logos.png\" alt=\"Six logos\" width=\"580\" height=\"800\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With luck, we&#8217;ll have a finished design to unveil within the next few weeks! Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the side projects we&#8217;ve got going on at Ottoman HQ is the design of the &#8220;Insect Mecha Battle&#8221;\u00a0Tournament logo, which adorns the flags and banners of the &#8220;Ottoman&#8221; world.\u00a0The ideal logo design would serve as a visual signature for the project as a whole, while still fitting the art style of the film. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}