What a crap logo this will be.

As requested.

If this is WHAT u wanted ill get it made.

First DRAFT!!!

Id post the full size image up here but its 2400x2400 Pixels...
What do u think?
THoughts?
Findings?
Everything i have made froms cratch, except the bird...
if it was a coloured bird i think it might look better, eitherway the edges need to be cleaned up...

ALso.
Anyone that says making decent looking flames is easy...
Is wrong.
Im thinking either a faded circle like so, or a fade out to a black square. (that might not make sense... its cool.)

Heres a desktop sized version... if u want.

Ze archives sketch 1...

Well laurie wanted something spiffy for ze archives.
First thing i thought was as follows.
Ze archive's have been rebuilt from the ashes of the last ze archives.
So mythicaly speaking, ze archives is a phoenix.
Heres a bit of background on said phoenix
"At the end of its life-cycle the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix arises."

SO!
as the new ze archives is rising from the ashes of its predecessor, what better emblam to take than that of said phoenix...

Heres a very rough sketch.
IM thinking the Z and the A need to be larger, and they will be embossed, or raised or 3d'd or maybe even on fire with blue flames or something..
either way heres a dogey sketch.
what are your thoughts.

Its been a while.

Heres some compositle blended images.
Original's stolen from Mels Blog.

Flaming waves...

Inverted.

A bit more flame, and shadow or smoke it might be at the top of the plume.

What looks to be flame or water "spray" now arounf the fire and wave..

Well that does it for me buggeising around.
I thought the idea of a flaming wave was pretty cool, plus it was an accident.
Well hope u like it.