A few days back I presented the logo for Headlight in a post on logo design inspired by the fuzz about the new Quark logo. Since then I’ve had some feedback on the logo, which made me realize I had to change it. My main reason to change it was that some people didn’t see the lit head shape with the brain in it, but an image of a man yelling from the top of his lungs. When I saw what they meant, I kept seeing the yelling man as well. It was clear; the brain had to go.

The brain was to complex a shape, and for obvious reasons, not one of those features that make us recognize a shape as the human head. Maybe if we had x-ray vision and could actually see each others brains, it would have worked. But until we mutate into Martians, I decided to stick with the one feature that sets our head apart from e.g. a ball, a melon, or a potato – eyes. If you want to be concrete sure that people will recognize a shape as a head, it got to have eyes.

So here it is the new and brainless, but at least seeing, head.

As the software it represents it has undergone a lot of changes since the original idea. But that’s the way we like it. Nothing is sacred; if it doesn’t work it has to go, no matter who thought of it, and how long it took to make.