{"id":3096,"date":"2013-06-19T14:38:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T21:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2013-08-06T12:58:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T19:58:23","slug":"nexu-company-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/nexu-company-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nexu Company logo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nexu Company, Guild Website and Logo<\/h2>\n

\"Nexu<\/a>Nexu Company<\/a> is a Republic guild on Jung Ma, in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Their “story” is that they’re a special ops unit created after the Treaty of Coruscant.<\/p>\n

The elements were chosen by one of their officers (the republic sigil, the colors, the font, and inclusion of a Nexu). I wanted to invoke the aesthetic of the old hand-painted World War II era unit logos, the kind you might see painted on the side of a bomber or a tank, while still fitting it into the sci-fi setting of The Old Republic, so I chose to contrast a “sketchy” nexu against the cleaner and slicker name and sigil.<\/p>\n

Oh and if you’re wondering what a nexu is<\/a>… think… a giant tiger with the Chesire Cat’s grin, full of sharp teeth, spikes behind the head (here hidden by the name), and the claws and attitude of a velociraptor… swinging down on you from up in the trees. They’re agile and use speed and sharpness instead of bulk and brute force — perfect for the mascot of a first strike unit.<\/p>\n

I’m also one of the webmasters for the guild’s website. It’s built on the webs.com platform, so there’s nothing that I can do to affect things like the positioning of the main menu. It was a challenge to design around these immutable elements while making it look like they’re there because that’s what the design calls for. For the header graphic, I designed around screenshots of the basic website and made it semi-transparent to allow the template’s background to be changed by the webs.com interface without it interfering with the graphic.<\/p>\n

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Imagine a giant tiger with the Chesire Cat’s grin, full of sharp teeth, spikes behind the head, and the claws and attitude of a velociraptor… swinging down on you from up in the trees. They’re agile and use speed and sharpness instead of bulk and brute force — perfect for the mascot of a first strike unit. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,98,27],"tags":[18,102],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolio","category-visual","category-web-design","tag-logo","tag-swtor","portfolio","visual","web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3194,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}