Experiments using a free structured-graphics drawing tool, Inkscape .
My friend, Rob Bettmann, commissioned me to design a logo for his online magazine, Bourgeon (bourgeononline.com, now midatlanticreview.com). He suggested the theme, a budding - burgeoning - branch. I found a public domain image of a budding elm branch and used the fantastic SVG vector-graphics editor, Inkscape, to transform it into this iconic image. Rob used it as the site's emblem for several years.
My young friend, Kira, made this design while playing with Inkscape, with my help..
A variation on my young friend, Kira's, response to Rob Bettmann's question, "what is dance?", that Kira and I developed in Inkscape.
Here's a draft logo design which i wound up using as be basis for the site favicon. It's an example of a design that's self-similar across scale: the successive enclosing braces are the identical to the ones they immediately contain, except larger. You can also look at it as a pair of repeatedly crossing paths, clockwise going inwards, counter-clockwise going outwards. I like to think that the paths turn around at the (infinite) outer edge and center, so they constitute an infinitely enraveled loop.
