• Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    I’m a professional concept artist. The worst thing you could say in our field is actually “let’s draw something together”:)

    Design by committee results in abominations 99.99% of the times.

    I’d say let just people draw stuff if they want and then we pick the best.

    • Otome-chan@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Kbinauts and kbeans are the names I’ve seen used. I prefer kbinaut and I think it’s growing in use haha.

    • gk99@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen Kbeans and I think it’s both funny and useful. Cartoony beans would make a great snoo replacement, both in logo and if Ernest plans on adding an equivalent to reddit’s user snoos.

      • digitallyfree@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m thinking that the design should be open to customization with a basic creator, where one can choose different heads/bodies etc.

  • wildncrazyguy@kbin.socialOP
    7·
    1 year ago

    One of the things that I think made our exodus site so endearing is that we had a cute logo from the start. In that vein, and with many folks thinking about us collectively calling ourselves kbinauts, I thought to make a little logo with a spaceship. What do ya’ll think? Can someone with more skills doctor this up?

    Also, for those with their own ideas, feel free to post your own in the comments. Maybe we can settle on one and make it ours. I’d like to start seeing these logos all out in the real world one day.

  • Otome-chan@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’m no artist but my vote goes towards the mascot being some sort of alien (or maybe astronaut?) with a gun. the gun to match the karabin source of the name, the alien to match the “kbinauts” moniker.

    • Grimlo9ic@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been wondering where “kbin” came from. So it’s confirmed that the original Polish version is supposed to be named “rifle”?

      • Otome-chan@kbin.social
        8·
        1 year ago

        So I just stumbled upon one of ernest’s comments about it. Yes, the polish instance is a play on words referencing a rifle. however it seems the original “kbin” name actually stems from unix’s “sbin”.

        I guess in the end it ends up being a double reference?

        • Grimlo9ic@kbin.social
          5·
          1 year ago

          however it seems the original “kbin” name actually stems from unix’s “sbin”.

          Oh so THAT’S why it’s stylized as “/kbin” on kbin.pub. And why the logo kinda looks like a folder. Interesting!

        • Boabab@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          seems the original “kbin” name actually stems from unix’s “sbin”.

          That makes a lot of sense! I really like that reference and how the logo is stylized as a forward slash

  • wjrii@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Did Ernest ever explain the origin and pronunciation of the name? While there would be a certain tragicomic open-source poetry in ignoring what he had assumed would happen, it would be relevant information.

  • steb@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I think of kbin as ‘Kabin’ so something like ‘Kabby the log cabin’ would be what I’d design if I had any artistic skill

  • BentiGorlich@thebrainbin.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    I mean just look at mastodon and how omnipresent the mascot is. It would be relly great if Kbin had one, too. Sadly I am neigher an artist nor super creative when it comes to this stuff

  • BuddhaBeettle@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Im not an artist /designer but I do draw and know some illustrator. While we wait for someone more capable Ill gladly try to design something, gives me something to do while I find myself around kbin.

    I like the idea of the rocketship!
    Goes well with the whole fediverse concept (which Im still in the process of understanding).