Any idea for a HKDUG logo?

From a design perspective "HKDUG-logo-draft-v1-07.png" is the best of all of your drafts.

Perhaps make the building silhouettes all black and straight up instead of to one side. More like HKDUG-logo-draft-v1-08.png

I like #5 the most, but without the golden band. In my mind, it has best proportions (well-rounded) and the position and size of the cityscape is perfect. Stars could perhaps remain or be taken out.

s 12 and 14 are also interesting.

Agreed, the HK Flag logo, the Tourism board Dragon, and the traditional junk are all very recognizable icons of HK.

It may be easier to integrate one of those icons with the Drupal tear-drop.

Will make a few drafts as well and post here.
As for the current ones, I don't think there is much relation to Hong Kong, except that it says Hong Kong.
Colors don't feel representative either, as HK's color are red and white perhaps they should be represented more.
Draft 09 is my favorite of these ones so far, clean and simple and will probably work well in b/w as well unlike most of the others.
Would like to see a variation with the HK text separated from the logo.

Hey, guys, I think we should all see what HK has that no other countries have (or symbolized HK)

Transportation:
Trams
Star Ferry
Peak Tram
Junk Boats
man-pulled rickshaws

Other Ideas:
1. Maybe either the drupal sits on a rickshaw, or drupal logo pulling a rickshaw(meaning moving forward in a way i guess)
2. Drupal Icon on the chimneys of the the ferry(or junk boat) going across the harbour
3. Dim sum is actually not a bad idea if the drupal sits on the dimsum tray =P
4. Bruce Lee-d the drupal icon even, haha, that'd be cool, like nunchucks the drupal icon, or the thumb to the nose on the drupal icon (i mean, i think the eye part of the drupal face actually kinda looks like the old school sun-glasses)
5. I guess just try to inject the idea of HK as in having both old and new style mixed together into the logo...

That's all i have for now, but that's just me tho....

I assume everyone knows what that stands for.
Forget the skyline is my advice, it's been done too many times already.
And I don't think most people will be able to tell from a silhouette that its the HK skyline.

Less is more is also something to think about.
I don't recommend adding up and blending in as many HK related gimmicks into the logo just to sell the idea of "this is HK".
If the basic concept can't sell that image without adding in a lot of extra surplus elements then the concept has already failed, and trying to make up for it by adding more elements will just make it messy and cluttered.

And whats the goal of the logo? are we selling HK or Drupal or the group itself?

If we are going to make a logo, lets do it the proper way.
Goal / purpose - target audience - research - creative brief - development

I know I sound like a jerk ( maybe I more than sound like one :P ) , but doing branding and brand identities has been part of my job for the past 18 years.

As Dave so elegantly put it regarding the website "better to not have one than one not maintained", the same goes for a logo.

Well after doing some basic research we came up with this logo for HKDUG.

http://www.metamorphicstudios.com/projects/hkdug.png

I think it captured everything "HK" pretty well if i may say so myself.
We also added in some typography elements that is very typical for HK and Asia.

Will add some other drafts later on, that I am working on.

Let me know what you think.

It most definitely is your brain ;)

To be honest i didn't have time to work much on the typography so there is plenty of room there to make it better.
Will do a few updates today hopefully.

Would be nice to hear what the rest of the group feels about it as well.

Hey guys,

This is my first post here, I work for a local digital agency called BeansBox….our lead developer Aaron told me about this thread. We've been using Drupal for little while now and are loving it, and would love to give something back to the community. We've been liking the logo suggestions so far, and would like offer some more ideas.

I've been playing around with some of the suggestions from you guys above (thanks!), incorporating iconic HK imagery and symbols into the design. I'm also interested in keeping the fun vibe of the logo consistent with other DUG logos from around the world:

http://www.beansbox.com/hkdug/drupal user group logos.jpg

The face of the Drupalicon is really cool….because its a face, there's a lot that can be played with here. I love the Darth Drupal and Boston Drupal above….also the Dallas one. Besides having meaning, logo needs to stay fun and playful…it should look good as a tshirt or a sticker too!

Here they are:

http://www.beansbox.com/hkdug/hkdug1.jpg

More sketches to come later today. Love to hear your comments, feedback etc.

Dave

Here are a few more variants of the same logo.
Made some small adjustments on the type but can still be improved on.

http://www.metamorphicstudios.com/projects/hkdug_2.png

And this one because now two people said "developers will lime this one".
I just want to say I hope nobody chooses this one.
http://www.metamorphicstudios.com/projects/hkdug_org.png

@cookiesun
Definitely the Drupal logo is on the light side, but from my experience that is also key issue to why potential users turn away from Drupal (myself included once upon a time, only to find the path of light later on :P), and instead turn to (yuck) Mambo/Joomla or other OSS cms.
Other cms brand ID just looks more professional and gives a more solid impression than the Drupal icon, even though they made improvements I still think revamping the icon would do more than a new hyped typeface.

@Davidyu
Lookingforward to see more of your logo drafts, keep em coming!

As for the Aquia logo I agree with what you pointed out, and I agree that they did not try to directly incorporate the drupal logo, I was just trying to make an example of an alternative way to reference to drupal without

But the Drupalcon Chicago was a nice and well made logo something worth using as a reference I think.

Ok im dead tired so im not sure Im making any sense now, so i better stop typing before i make a complete ass of myself (unless its too late already)...

Enjoy the logos.

I really like how you guys started with the development of the logo's...
I kind of liked Johan's hkdug_1.png ... a lot... except the merging of the 'H' and 'K'... is very solid...
Also the red drupal logo with the Bauhinia flower from dave is very good..

I like simple logo's which look beautifull and where the logo tells everything where it is about... These logo's do it pretty well.

Even more simpler is the hkdug_2.png from Johan. Great logo.

Only one thing i personally miss are the chinese characters... I mean, Hong Kong is China... language is chinese and english...
Don't know if there is a chinese 'name' for Drupal. but Am pretty sure the 'local's' in this forum can come up with a translation for the 'User Group' part..

I think chinese characters can make a logo even more beautiful and definitely speak towards the chinese community.
But is suggestion....

Great ideas from you guys! Loved the Bruce Lee one lol! Although agree that it's not the most suitable!!
Also liking Johan's http://www.metamorphicstudios.com/projects/hkdug_2.png
Bottom left with some chinese calligraphy integrated into the fonts somewhere would be subtle and clean, but also have a nice Hong Kong feel to it. I think a poll is definitely the way to decide this one!

http://www.metamorphicstudios.com/projects/hkdug_upd.png

Just added in the Chinese wordings, to the ones that seemed most popular.
And adjusted the bun slightly, darker shadow, and chi font.

@David I would like to see more from you as well if you have time.

Hi all,
Here is our submission from Monimedia. There are several variations of our design. Hope you like it:

http://www.moni-media.net/clients/drupal/hkdrupalgroup/logo_hk_v1.png

Thanks
Andrew Ryder on behalf of Monimedia

At last night's meet-up we had about 16 people. We did kind-of a variation on Exhaustive ballot voting. The winning design concept is Calligraphy by Johan:
http://www.metamorphicstudios.com/projects/hkdug_upd.png
Many of the submissions from Beansbox also got strong support.

Johan will do up a new version taking into account some comments on kerning and line-spacing and post his results.

Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas. It's great to see the creative energy building upon itself.

@dalin, Thanks for coordinating this.

All submissions were great, and it's good that there is so much interaction and contribution from Drupal developers in Hong Kong.

The winning submission has the following criteria.
A) The overall design is contemporary enough to be taken seriously in corporate/professional settings.
B) Keeps with the Drupal logo, so we know that it has something to do with Drupal.
C) Holds Hong Kong character (Chinese characters and the appearance that the outline is calligraphy)
D) Fonts look great.
E) Color scheme looks great.

Congratulations to Johan for the submission.