| The Hornet Spinner Page |
| Introduction |
The Hornet Spinner is our group's logo. It is simply a golden letter H with a circle surrounding it, spinning around and around like a globe. The entity has affectionately been referred to as the "Hornarchy" (Hornet Anarchy), but to us it's just a Hornet Spinner.
| History |
The Hornet Spinner came into effect in early May of 1996. Our group was getting ready to attend NAID (North American International Demoparty) and we all wanted to get matching t-shirts. For that, we needed a logo.
A very nice picture of a real insect hornet had been drawn for the cover of our Hornet Underground CDROM, but that image was too expensive to print on a shirt. We needed something simple. Something instantly recognizable. Something catchy.
I was sitting down with Isaac Turri (the Walnut Creek CDROM artist who had drawn the picture of the insect hornet). I told him we needed something more simplistic. He sketched out a few ideas but none of them seemed quite right.
At the time I was not very proficient with Adobe Photoshop, but I took the mouse and started drawing a huge "H" on the screen with lines, filling it in with yellow. It was not my intention for this to be our logo. I was only trying to give Isaac and myself inspiration. Then he drew a circle around the "H". We ran out of time and I had to send what we had to IOR / Hornet so he could get t-shirts made before NAID started.
As it turned out, the shirts were a great success. A huge bright yellow "H" on a black t-shirt is very recognizable, catchy even. More importantly, our group had a new logo.
| Spinner Gallery |
| Conclusion |
This is another one of those nonsense pages that doesn't really do anything productive. Hopefully you found it amusing or at least enjoyable to read. :)
Want to add your own Hornet Spinner to the gallery? Just mail it to me at r3cgm@hornet.org.
Christopher G. Mann (Snowman / Hornet) - r3cgm@hornet.org