Meh.... here's good enough.

My contribution



Itani: Some harmonious "we're not really ruthless killers" sort of thing.

Serco: Inspirational "look what they did to our station!" thing... with wings, and gears.

UIT: Big star, UIT, ten little stars, subfactions... or 9, corvus isn't present (but they saved them a space, just in case).

Way cool, Gav! Way cool!

~D.
"Nigel"

um.. just going to point out that--- those are freaking awesome Gavan! We need those instead of the three posted earlier. They're more realistic and not as cute, which is a good thing.

Perhaps Serco Dominion should be written out, cuz ppl just coming in won't know what "sd" stands for. You could run "Serco" in an arc above the top gear thing, and "Dominion" in an arc below the bottom gear thing. I would add an image as an example, but idk how to do that..

Hey thanks guys. I'm gonna start another thread for this, I know Leebs was thinking about throwing something together too.

Yeah LeChatlier, this version would be for the actual selection box which has Serco Dominion written below. I'm gonna do up a colour version of them and put it in.

Nah, Gav, leave them as they are without color. Clean, simple lines and they go with everything like the best credit cards.

~D.
"Nigel"

Those are absolutely luverly, Gavan. And yes, leave them uncoloured.

Not to be the ants at a picknic, but you might want to change the spelling to "independent". Not doing this to put you down, but because I think VO deserves the best icons possible ;-)

EDIT: Just discovered the current in-game icon spells it the same way as you, Gavan. Perhaps it's supposed to be that way. Though the text descriptions in the game uses the "independent" form. Very confusing, but then, that's how you keep your business partners and the competition insecure and unsure what to expect. UIT would know all about that...

Gavan, that´s really inspiring! congratulations!

Wow...how did you make that...

Oh my god. Gavan, I love you.

(I'm thinking of getting tattoos, Itani on one arm, Serco on the other. ;P )

Those are awesome. They'd be even more awesome had you spelled "independent" right.

Holy crap, Ray spelled it wrong too. Hahah. I'm pretty sure Waylon consistently spelled it wrong, and I went through and mass-replaced it at some point.

Edit: Yeah, this post is redundant (but not redundent). I didn't see Ion's post.

Those are really nice Gavan!

now that you mention it, I remember that too Andy.

Awesome job Gavan. How about adding some GTS to them? I believe GTS is used everywhere, the symbol matters most, the writing should in GTS imo.

M. Duncan

Really nice Gavan !
I love them !

Comendable work. But I think they need some refinement.

First, the Itani bears too much resemblance to the BDSM pride emblem:

http://www.desertpride.com/catalog/images/BDSM%20Emblem.bmp

Secondly. the Serco emblem dwarfs the other two by a significant margin. In addition, it looks alot like the Homeworld 2 logo:

http://homeworld2.sierra.com/img/splash.jpg

I disagree, Zyl. I think they look great as is, with the exception of the mispelling ("independent"). I think it might be neat to see what they look like in GTS as well, but overall I dont think they really look much like those other logos at all.

BD SM, huh? Where do you hang out, man?

~D.
"Nigel"

There is a world of flags. So, I doubt you can make a perfectly original flag or emblem without it resembling something, be it a company's logo or a nation's flag.
Also, Libya has the best flag ever.

Whoah, thanks for the feedback everyone. I was out of town for a few days with no access to the internet.

As per "independe/ant" Yeah, well, hmm. :) Could definately be changed if need be.

As per Zyl: Well, I won't deny that when I was looking for examples of military emblems that use wings I came across the homeworld design. And I was inspired byt theirs as well as other. But quite frankly, they ripped their idea of of countless other designs... so I think its safe to say nothings original nor sacred anymore.

Also, I. have. never. heard. of Desert Pride! That's random (but what a fabulous selection of toys!) But again, they utilized the pretty standard imagery of harmony/ying&yang, etc, as have many, many others.... so I'm sure its safe enough :)

Edit: And yeah Mdaniel, I tried out some GTS in there... but I couldn't get it to work in the time I devoted to it. I could try again.

Gee. I knew that Itani logo up here felt familliar:



That's the old Radio Quebec station logo. Station was renamed Télé-Quebec and it's logo changed. But that old Radio Quebec logo is forever imprinted in my mind as a soft kids -oriented learning and entertainment channel.

Go! Passe-Montagne!

soft kids -oriented learning and entertainment

Yep, sounds like the Itani Navy to me!