GeekLimit Branding

Posted by The Technocrat | Filed under GeekLimit News, Geeky

GeekLimit logoOK, so I've been fighting to find a certain something that will really identify GeekLimit to the blogosphere.  BoingBoing has its jackhammer girl, del.icio.us has its boxes, flickr has its pink 'r', etc..  I made a prototype logo (seen here), but it's relatively uninspired.  I'm still working on logos, T-shirts, etc.

However, while browsing the popular links over at del.icio.us, I can say with absolute certainty that GeekLimit now officially has a theme song.  The masterpiece?  Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton.

Congrats Jonathan on a very well-done, Geekery-inspired tune.

How about you other Geeks? Stumbled across any real-world/geek culture mashups or original works like 'Code Monkey'?  Let's hear ya.

Comments (14) | May 3rd, 2006

14 Responses to “GeekLimit Branding”

  1. The Technocrat Says:
    May 3, 2006 at 2:49 pm

    I know there’s one out there that has lyrics to the tune of ‘Loser’ by Beck, I can’t find it though… :-(

  2. Taoski Says:
    May 3, 2006 at 3:00 pm

    You can’t beat “Hey hey 16k“.

    I got an A-level in graphics design and art. I can also throw some photoshop/illustrator skills if you are interested in using them…

  3. Taoski Says:
    May 3, 2006 at 3:24 pm

    Or open up a logo competition..?

  4. AtariBoy Says:
    May 4, 2006 at 2:44 am

    I do love that Code Monkey song :)

    I’m not a huge fan of that logo, its not web2.0 enough for me, i think we should aim to predict web3.0.0 and start that trend :)

  5. bumsk Says:
    May 4, 2006 at 4:53 am

    a logo competition sounds like fun

  6. taoski Says:
    May 4, 2006 at 6:58 am

    Anyway, should’nt it be 256?

  7. The Technocrat Says:
    May 4, 2006 at 8:02 am

    I figured you’re allowed 0-255. Technically, it’s 256 bits, but the max address is 255. I figured I’d go for the extra geekery.

  8. nitro2k01 Says:
    May 5, 2006 at 3:56 am

    Technocrat, wtf are you talking about? “it’s 256 bits, but the max address is 255.”
    An 8-bit number can take on 256 distinct values. Usually you are using an unsigned notation which would give you the values 0-255. A 256-bit value can take on about 1.15 * 1077 distinct values, far more precision than you need. And whoever talked about addresses? Usually you would prefer a 16-bit addressing space, which gives you 65536 different values.
    But 255 is a cool number, since it has all eight bits set.

  9. The Technocrat Says:
    May 5, 2006 at 8:12 am

    hmm, I should have said ‘ip address’, not address. I didn’t think of it as 256-bit addressing anyway…

    When I made the logo, I had been working on drawing up a network diagram for one of my sites all day…I was in IP Address mode.

    I’m not sure how I worked bits in there, but I think somewhere I started talking about ip addressing and allocated address space in the same sentence… A case of thinking faster than I typed…

    So to answer your question, I know exactly what I was thinking, but have no idea ‘wtf’ I was typing… :-D

  10. AtariBoy Says:
    May 5, 2006 at 4:29 pm

    As soon as you say 255 i think addressing, but in 8 bit assembly, probebly one of the geekiest langauges ever.

    Obviously everything is different depending on the complexitly – 8, 16, 32, 64 bit etc, a logo should be something more visual, that stands out and shouts to the right people, you dont see anyone complaining about the pink r in flickr.

  11. neoncheez Says:
    May 5, 2006 at 6:57 pm

    the logo isnt doing anything… it needs to reach out and grab you. since you’ve come up with what looks like a road sign, how about something more relating to a ‘crosswalk’ sign. for example, have a person sitting at a computer hunched over with crosswalk lines next to it..

  12. The Technocrat Says:
    May 6, 2006 at 10:09 pm

    yeah, jus something I threw out there to just get the creative process going. We might have a logo contest…I have to think up a good prize though… :-)

  13. taoski Says:
    May 8, 2006 at 10:34 am

    What about something like this?

    http://static.flickr.com/48/142801820_e839bc66e8.jpg

    Just something i threw together in ilustrator today (and then it promptly crashed and did’nt save it!)….

    Grrrrr.

  14. Stefan Says:
    May 9, 2006 at 11:25 pm

    I had an idea tonight for a logo for you guys. I hope this is something that you might consider:

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