The Bunkhouse One group for Camp Magic MacGuffin is looking to establish an identity through a name and group logo.
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1968. Maybe we could be The Monkey House?
“The Monkey House DRAFT 1” by aforgrave, on Flickr
The DRAFT 1 logo is designed to fit a traditional square avatar/icon footprint. I’d like to make some adjustments to the spacing around the edges — the ears are too close to the boundary for my liking.
“The Monkey House DRAFT 2” by aforgrave, on Flickr
Draft 2 is nice in that it includes all three of the retro icons together. Another option would be to have three variations on Draft 1, with each of the typewriter, microphone, and camera substituted in the centre.
The oh-so-cool retro icons are by Mike Demetriou — they really seem to capture the visual, auditory, and text modes of storytelling as exemplified by ds106 The Daily Create in an old-school Vonnegut kind of way.
I replicated the monkey from an old clip art image using vector objects in Fireworks. In these drafts, the three monkeys are identical. In a later draft, I’d individualize them — possibly adding hands to wind up with the See-No, Hear-No, and Speak-No monkeys.
So, does Bunkhouse One like the homage and idea (and catchy title!) of being Monkeys?
Update: 1:33 PM June 1st At this point, there are 26 suggested names for Bunkhouse One. Eight of them feature Monkeys!
- The Monkey House
- the mONkEy House (reference to Bunkhouse One)
- Monkeys with Typewriters
- Monkeys with Sticks and Birchbark (older school, rustic camp setting for writing)
- Funky Monkees
- Funky Monkeys in their Bunkies
- Monkeys in PJs
- One Funky Monkey Bunk
Apparently we’ll be polling later this evening …
How can you go wrong with monkeys? It lends itself to all of the Trazan movies, the notion of 10,000 monkeys typing shakespeare, Bonzo, PotA, and more.
I dig your icons so much that I want to go with the monkey theme. I definitely like the camera, microphone, typewriter one. Film no, broadcast no, blog no evil? 🙂
Hi, Shannon! Yes, I like the monkey theme, too! Can you tell? Perhaps we could go with Monkeys in general and have several of the names hold true! One Funky Monkey Bunk has a nice rhythm and rhyme, has funky and ONE and Bunk, and the Vonnegut allusion. AND Monkeys!!
I love the monkies! I hope we can be Funky Monkeys or just the Monkey House and we can keep the “monkeys creating stuff” theme and just keep riffing on it. I’d like to take a stab at some vector monkeys too if you don’t mind.
Hi Cheryl! Over lunch I was thinking about the modular nature of the expressions for the monkey face, and how my next step will be to put a few other mouths, into the .png file and simply toggle layers on and off to get different faces. Adjusting the location of the eyeball lets you add expressions — easily customizable.
After that, it became clear that if we went with Monkeys in some capacity for our bunk name it would be easy for each member of our group to take the basic monkey family “face” and customize their own individual Monkey, adding their own personality. Maybe like the seven dwarves — with a defining characteristic for a name?
Ah, it’s great when an idea develops some momentum …
Sweet! You continue to develop your monkeys any way you like. I’m sure I will end up with my own custom version. I attended Phoenix Comicon last weekend and went to a drawing workshop by my favorite local illustrators, Daniel Davis and the crew of SteamCrow, and I am just dying to try out the techniques I observed on a brand spanking new monkey me!
Just saw SpazMonkies! Wonderful!
Love Draft 2 of monkeys for a logo. Spazmunkees would need new wording. A ripe subject for depiction!! Hurray.
Ahhh you are cracking me up! I like the monkey with camera, mic and typewriter too!!
Kathleen, I think that must be one of the primary design intentions behind monkeys! I mean, c’mon, what’s their primary prop? A banana!
And yet we still can imagine a room full of them, sitting at typewriters, writing Shakespeare …
So let’s truly empower them, with typewriters, microphones (get them on #ds106radio), and video cameras !!!
Power to the Monkeys!
That second one is sweet. Hope we get a monkey name too.
Looks like the balloting has closed, and The Monkey House it is! Next up is for everyone to choose a monkey name, and possibly skin their Minecraft Stevie with a monkey skin.
Dibs on Curious George!
And we have a winner! We are The Monkey House, only I’m going to go ahead and make a logo that emphasizes the ONE in “monkey” – the mONkEy house 🙂
#mONkEyhouse106