Apologies for the rather blurry picture – today is not a good camera day for me and the tail is just slightly too long for my scanner.

GoodnessDirect logo
Originally uploaded by Justin Fleming

Goodness Direct have decided to change their logo, and they’re asking for consultation. Here’s the proposed new version.

It bothers me a lot – garish and plain at the same time, with an odd variant of CMYK without the K. Green: the new black? That’s an interesting idea, but I don’t think it goes anywhere. Those shapes look like children’s sweets, packed full of artificial colours and flavourings.

Mind you, the text portion I like – it manages to be solid & reliable, while still looking modern.

I was doodling earlier tonight, with a blue gel ink rollerball I’d discovered in my satchel, and started trying to do faces. Normally I’m doing well to get something actually recognizable as some hideously mutated travesty of a person, but I noticed that what I had actually looked half decent. So I scanned it in and started messing around with the GIMP for awhile, and ended up with this. Definitely progress on the drawing-people front, I feel.

There’s an SVG version for printing here.

Time I got a new camera, I think – the one I’m using, which is the 1.2 megapixel camera built into my phone (a Sharp 770SH) is just fine for pictures of small immobile items, or taking notes, but it’s hopeless in low light levels and doesn’t have much versatility for distances.

On the other hand, I like the effects it produces in low light levels sometimes, like this one I took on a whim a month or so ago.