So i am the process of working on improving my personal brand and have created myself a new logo.

I thought it would be interesting to see what you all think?

"As a developer/designer hybrid i wanted to create a identity that was able to form a symbolic reference.

My initials (nb) are formed into one continuous line making a connection to two seemingly different fields that represent both design and development."

Full Resolution: https://dribbble.com/shots/...

@kp15 Ah shit, how did you see through my plan?

Whats the name, whats that logo meant to represent... ?

aw... NB rite?

@Nelson Yeah, it's my initials but i updated the post with the details from Dribbble too.

It looks really nice, especially when compared to other personal brand logos out there. I would like to suggest 2 things if you don't mind: make the lines a bit thicker (not much), and add some kind of backround/frame or something like that (it would add another dimension to it)... Beware: I have no knowledge of designing logos, this is just from a user POV and i could be wrong :D

It looks slightly swastika-y to me. Besides that, nice and clean. I like it

@CrankyOldDev It's intentional as it's from Dribbble (hence the quotes)

@iam13islucky You are not the first to say that, not sure how to address that.

@nblackburn I don't know either. Right angles off of a center cross will always look similar to one

@CrankyOldDev No need to apologise, it's designery language.

@nblackburn http://i.imgur.com/ZMu1JZa.png

@nblackburn I deleted my comments because I sounded like an ass and I don't mean to be. Too used to people posting tongue-in-cheek things on here.

@CrankyOldDev I already said it was fine, i was looking for critique.

@Letmecode Thanks for the feedback, i am currently trying to make it less swastikary but also widen the gap and thicken the lines a little.

I am doing this by offsetting the 'n' and 'b' so it no longer joins in the middle, hopefully breaking the resemblance.

@Nelson eh, looks a bit to busy to me. Lacks the simplicity

@iam13islucky Yeah, it's too cramped.

I really really like it. Cool. 😀

@Gradle Thanks!

Really cool. I'm so jealous of devs/designers, I can only into dev.

@zedrubber Thanks and welcome.

Don't be jealous though, it just takes practice ;)

@letmecode So i have made some tweaks but am trying to decide on either a 20px (left) or 40px (right) gap.

What do you reckon?

2 ideas: If you take it like this, lenghen the lower left line so that the thought line meets with the full, thick line... Yeah, i hate to explain this.

Another idea (my favorite): Turn it by 45°.

@vortexman100 Not following on the first one and the second defeats the point.

Jup
It's a nice one

@nblackburn I second the one on the right.

OK so i made some more tweaks to get the edges aligned instead of them meeting in the middle.

At a glance, it looks more like 'rb' instead of 'nb' . That's because of the joined downstroke. Try changing it because I think that's a bad thing for your brand identity.

@Deserter FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

@nblackburn I think the joining downstroke is okay. For the symbolic meaning, it works. Don't sweat it too much

It made me think of the Telerik logo. It's one line away.

@brettski saw the same thing.

I like the first version, though.

@nblackburn, for what it's worth, i think you've got the start of a great logo there..

What about using a two-tone effect? In color, you could have the "n" in blue and the "b" in black, while in b/w you could simply make the "n" a lighter grey.

Other than that, you could try playing with the vertical position of the lines a bit; for example, make the riser from "b" shorter, make the right leg of the "n" drop down more, etc.

Play with the whitespace a bit and you might just find what you're looking for there. (:

FINALLY I understand what it feels like as a non-programmer listening to programmers talking shop! Thank you, mr. Designer.

This is the final version, hope you all like it.