Original logo
I always liked the original logo because it was warm and happy and had all the main characters in it…but we've been using it for 4 years. I started playing around last night on my new laptop (wheeeeeee!) and PSP9 and came up with a 900x600 graphic that included art from the comic and new computer fonts. It took about 3 hours, a lot of layering and so forth, but I got it the way I wanted…
…and then it hit me: everybody looked sad! Carolyn's even crying! So, while I thought it looked really amazing, I was concerned it would depress anyone who saw it – and that kind of defeated my purpose of trying to intrigue and attract new readers for Due East. It just so happened that a lot of good art happened in a really emotional part of the first book.
Here's the full logo I did recently (it gets compressed in the forum, go to http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k261/irhaven/de_newlogo_2007.jpg to see the full version of the graphic):
With edits, I cropped it down to the version below and I think it contains all the main elements.
08-11-07 Update: Now we have this logo (below) with brand new art!
Neat, huh? And that is the history of the Due East logo. :)
