Portfolio: Mercury Opus
Overview
The owners of Mercury Opus, after going years without having a website discussion board, recently purchased a VBulletin license and skinned it with a very sharp looking theme. At one point in time, Mercury Opus was one of the largest Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's) in all of Florida. They contacted me hoping that I could help with creating a logo to be stationed at the top of the new forum. They were'nt interested in anything fancy, just something that fit the theme.
Technical Aspect
After a few sketches a very straight forward design began to take shape. Compared to, for instance, the beautiful rings of Saturn, Mercury didn't really give us a lot to work with. Being that this was a technical discussion board during it's hay day, I wanted to incorporate something computer related. The popular Microsoft mouse pointer icon filled that shoe just fine. To compliment the space theme, a very broad and strong typeface was ideal. In the final draft of the logo, the typeface called Baur was chosen with thick strokes and colors relating the rest of the theme. The entire logo was created with Photoshop.
