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Offline Herra Tohtori

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The HLP logo. What IS it?
It has been troubling me for a long, long while. In fact, since I joined the forums. It's an awesome graphical design, but it's kinda... weird, also. I can't quite decide what it actually depicts, or if it's just cool geometric shapes or somesuch.

It looks disturbingly like a circular saw stained in dripping blood... although I have to stress that I haven't ever actually seen that in real life (yet). What kind of associations does the logo invoke in other people, if any?

Or perhaps it's a Hard Light Lava lamp or something. Where did it originally come from? Who can reveal the mystery behind the mark? Has there been previous incarnations of the holy symbol, and what did they look like? I'm too recent to have seen them... :sigh:
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Offline Black Wolf

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
It's just a cool design. Steak made it way back when to be symbollic of... stuff. The melding of something and something. It's not meant to be anything AFAIK.
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Offline achtung

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
It's nice to know it's original.
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Offline nubbles526

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
I think they should have the words Freespac SCP or something like that in that logo.  To me, that logo just looks like some ninja weapon.


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Offline Snail

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
Don't change the logo please. It looks fine.

 

Offline ZmaN

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
Don't change the logo please. It looks fine.

i agree...
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Offline brozozo

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
For some reason, I always thought it resembled the launch bay on an Arcadia.

 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
The logo does indeed look extremely weird, but then again changing it would surely be a poor decision.
I mean, I can't figure out what the hell it's supposed to be, but at least every time I see it, I immediately think: "Ah, this must be HLP stuff". The logo is very recognisable and therefore does its job well.
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Offline Snail

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
For some reason, I always thought it resembled the launch bay on an Arcadia.

You mean the hole?

 

Offline Black Wolf

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
I don't think that changing the symbol is on anyones radar atm.
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Offline Snail

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
I hope no one changes the HLP logo. The current one is fine. Why does it need to be changed in the first place? Because no one knows what it is?

 

Offline achtung

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
The only person who's even mentioned changing it is nubbles, who I highly doubt has any say.  :p  Calm down everyone.
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Offline Snail

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
Good. Steak may have since disappeared, but his logo will stay with us now and for ever more.

 

Offline vyper

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
He's shackled to a ball and chain. No surprise he's never around. ;)
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Offline Windrunner

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
I don't think that changing the symbol is on anyones radar atm.

You got that right..:nod:

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Offline Polpolion

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
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What about your avatar? :p

 

Offline Snail

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
That's the Hammer of Hard Light, not Hard Light Productions.

 

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
Hey! What about a poster? I would really like to buy it! :D
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Offline Polpolion

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
That's the Hammer of Hard Light, not Hard Light Productions.

But it uses the logo as its base image.

 

Offline Snail

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Re: The HLP logo. What IS it?
Well I suppose. But Windrunner's an admin so he can do what he wants. Even be hypocritical.