When you have a website, you must also have a logo. So it appears. Logos can be really awesome, really boring, or really outdated and sometimes also pretty ugly. Some of them are so simple yet so powerful. Those are my favorite ones. The logos that don't make you think too much. Yet they suggest something that you also don't completely understand, but you get the key idea and that's all you need. So here I go, with my company name ideawarrior, a name I came up with many years ago. I like the name. It's a good combination of fun and funky and you would think that it would be easy to come up with something. So I make a word list, it goes something like: Idea: lightbulb, light, ray, sun, bubbles, arrow up, van diagram Warrior: shield, weapon, bow, arrow, horse, horseshoe, water, waving flag, dragon, bat, wings, helmet, target, shooting, bullet I sit down and start sketching. The horse had to be drawn first to get that out of my system – everything that has a horse with it looks … [Read more...]
What this blog is all about
I have been blogging away on my German blog for many years, mostly to keep my friends and family members up-to-date with my adventures in Seattle. I left Germany in early 1993 to join Microsoft. Fresh out of college, it was a great way to get started in a fun, high energy environment, and it also dropped me smack into the middle of a vibrant music scene in a beautiful, green city with rainy days on end. Luckily, there was no shortage of good coffee in Seattle (that would have been a total dealbreaker otherwise), and I immediately loved this place! I am still here now, the weather has not driven me to Los Angeles yet, but I admit that I think about it sometimes. Since I only write about personal things on my German blog, I decided 2014 was the year to start a more business oriented blog which I will dedicate to my professional passions: software design, art, literature and angel investing. I will share many of the marvelous things I come about and hope to get connected with likeminded … [Read more...]