Ahhhh. Red Dwarf.

We have quite a few members of the team who are with you on this!

@thespaceshipper.com Maybe you know someone who would fit the bill?

Q: How do you know you've got The One?

A: I know I've got The One when I can look at the design and not immediately feel the urge to tweak some tiny, almost unnoticeable aspect of it!

~fin~

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Are the elements overlapping in just the right amount, at the right angle? Will this design work in black and white? What typeface to use for "First" and "Of Mercury" and how to make them fit?

Once a direction was decided upon, what followed was a number of smaller challenges. What version of letter shapes were ideal? How many textures to incorporate? Do the textures have the right shape language? Do we want textures at all?

This change meant that I didn't have completed gameplay to work off of, nor the tone of the game to match. Colour palettes hadn’t been established, nor any typography.

That being said, it was also freeing by not having to fit any of those aspects into the design.

Q: What were some difficulties or challenges you faced with this logo design?

A: This time around we decided to do something different: we started with the trailer with only a concept for the game. We were just starting production when I began to design the logo.

Well, there was a small dot that was part of the "Puzzle O." As soon as I moved it outside the letter it looked like something orbiting a planet. It was a simple solution that reframed the Sun-Mercury-Station relationship.

But that change sparked another question: what would happen to the station? How would it be incorporated into the logo?

For much of the exploration, the two "O"s were meant to represent Mercury and the space station that orbits it. During a discussion with Evan it was brought up that maybe these would instead be Mercury and the Sun, since at that stage there was a large red circle behind one of them.

I tossed it into a logo concept as a placeholder since it had the same puzzle characteristic visuals that I was looking for. It ended up only needing slight adjustments for the final version.

Later in the process, we had a small design change that changed the concept entirely.

Q: What do the various elements of the logo communicate?

A: The design of the first "O" ended up being a happy fluke. I initially designed that as a part of an animated graphic element to go alongside one of the module shots in the trailer.