Mill Logo

I think we should hold off making a change until we can get someone who knows the logo business to come up with something.

Windmills and waterwheels are not apt. We are not a wind energy company or a nostalgic back-to-basics company.

“Mill” is going to be tough to do well because of these problems of the word Mill leading off into areas that are not computers or not state-of-the-art.

It’s fine to retire the box logo tho. We don’t need a new one anytime soon unless a totally great one falls in our lap.

The name comes from Babbage, who separated his design into two parts he called the mill and the store. Anyone have a primary reference for what Babbage actually wrote?

Windmills and waterwheels are not apt.

The name comes from Babbage, who separated his design into two parts he called the mill and the store.

I’m not expert at etymology or Babbage’s work, however I strongly suspect that Babbage’s use of the word mill for part of his invention was due to its strong connotations as the ur-machine (where “ur-” means original/earliest.) And the origins of the word mill trace back to mills for grain. Thus, I’m not sure that a logo based on a windmill or a water-wheel is such a bad idea. Since wind has connotations of speed, a windmill-derived logo might be a good way to go.

OK, yes I do have to much time on my hands.
You are free to you this however you wish, either as an idea, a giggle, a what not to do, whatever.

Enjoy.

I had this logo idea at the time that this thread was made, but didn’t have time to execute it.

The strokes of the letters evoke a transition between two states of the belt.

It could naturally use some stylizing, but I like the concept.

I like the concept a lot. I won’t comment on color, spacing, outline weights, or aspect ratio should be- I have no strong opinions there,but the concept is great.
Other wacky options:
– add more boxes to the right,
– make them fading
– make them tilted so they look like they’re falling off the edge of, say, a belt.

I like the design of NDxTreme, but I think it is a bit too complex.

The thought of David is quiet nice too, if you know what it stands for. If you are not involved with the mill in any way, I’m afraid it says too little and in my opinion it lacks recognition value.

I do like the spirit however and I’ll see if I’m able to think of something myself.

Had a bit of fun with Inkscape, and figured I might as well toss it on the pile. I don’t think logos have to explain anything, in fact, very few have anything to do with what the company does. But if you squint, you can see bidirectional instruction streams, a belt carrying items, and a family of processors in this :).

Large/hi-res version.
Inkscape SVG for modifying.

I have some ideas myself, they are not the best and kind of prototypes.

The last two need a bit of work with the cpu design thingy bit. I just got a simple electron microscope picture from google, but a design like the one used by NDxTreme on the wings would seem like something soothing. The first use a bit of colour, but they are just basic ideas. There are design here I think I like more already, but I leave that up too you guy.

The logo must not try to look like a windmill or watermill or any other kind of mill other than a Babbage mill, to avoid misleading the person looking at the logo.