Cameland

Alright, Ivan had an awesome concept for a logo. Unfortunately, you can see that it was a bit blurry, so I thought it would be a good idea to convert the image to vector format, so that it can be resized to any size while remaining clear.

After many long hours of strenuous work (okay, not really), here’s the final result. Firefox users can click on it to see it even bigger, IE users can click on it to see a long list of meaningless numbers.

Also notice that this site now has the little icon in your list of bookmarks (you HAVE bookmarked this site, right?), on each tab and in the address bar beside the URL. The icon’s too small to include the ampersand (without turning the whole thing into an indeterminate blob), so it’s just the camel.

Note that all I did was create a replica (as close to identical as I could, minus the blur and jaggy lines) and credit goes to Eyeven for the actual design.

While I was waiting for Dom to actually find the original image, I went and googled for my own camel silhouettes. Here’s a logo that didn’t make the cut:

Both images were made in the same way. After getting the original images, it was time to start up InkScape, the poor man’s alternative to more expensive products (that I’d usually pirate) like Illustrator. From there it was simple (except for when it crashed just when I finally worked everything out). Tutorials rock. And notice how both camels only have three legs.

Here’s the original InkScape file.

There’s plenty of things that could be done with these logos. It’d be pretty cool to have come Cameland merchandise, like stickers or even tshirts.