Love it! :D

I love it. Especially the grumpy Panda superhero

Cute!

it makes me think the name of the website is “Pandagain”

I love the look but @5, yeah - it doesn’t look like an O. You need a tubbier bear.

Can we have some evidence that believers in “Jesse Taylor” aren’t operating from a faith-based perpective?

Damn. I was so hoping you’d use the Pistols For Pandas logo.

Remarkable?  But, see, ummm, urrrr, pandas are sort of black and white, and…

I still miss the beer can.

I guess I thought his head works as the “O” more than his stomach.

I second the vote for the fatter bear, to make it more like an “O.”

Love it.  The super-panda is amazing.

If it’s really confusing people though, perhaps he can be the first “A” in Panda.

If you put him inside an Atlasphere, s/he’d look like an O, be even more heroic, and piss off the Randians.

You were holed up creating a Bill Mantlo-Alpha Flight concordance. Admit it!

I still think I liked the panda-in-a-bathtub theme best.

I second emmit.

But but but it’s not black and white.  It’s black and white and red, er, in the cape area.  And all over.

I like it.

That said, if the head is the “O”, then it needs to be bigger.

Otherwise, make the belly bigger and rounder so the limbs are less sticky-outy.  Less “A” more “O”.

I like Panda as it is, but for letter-use, roundify.

Or leave as is and move to the middle A position—perhaps with longer legs.

(OK, I’ve got to go.  I’m generating language too much.  Brain is not properly engaged.)

Looks good, except that such a dark drop shadow doesn’t work with such dark lettering. Winds up making the text look a bit muddy. Would suggest trying a lighter shadow, if one is indeed necessary.

Typeface makes me think of the movie 2001.  Not a bad thing,  just sayin’.

I love the drop shadows on the letters, far more than I should.

Hey, can we drop shadow SuperPanda?

Drop shadowed SuperPiratePanda in an Atlasphere!

I still miss the Panda with the ball. But I can get behind this.

Can you maybe redesign the site such that it looks like a Totally Boring Work-Related Thing, and not a fun blog?  That would be very helpful.

For the first time in Pandagon’s long, panda-themed history, we’re going to have a black and white design…which is kind of remarkable, when you think about it.

Dude, the motherfucking cape is red!

I think it would look classier…in a brandy snifter!

/SNL

This is kind of a tough crowd.  I feel for the designer(s).

Sweet.

Let the saying suffice . . .

Should also add a favicon

Is that Panda wearing a monocle?

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I like the idea for a black-and-white design, since they’re often crisper.  The new logo looks good, but I echo the comments that the bear doesn’t necessarily remind me of an O.

Is that Panda wearing a monocle?

the eyes are different sizes in a O-o type manner, but combined with the eyebrow, it looks a little like a pirate eyepatch to me.

Hence my SuperPiratePanda comment.

I like it, even with SuperPiratePanda being more A-like than O-like.  My critiques are only with love!

Not a fan of the drop shadow, FWIW, but the super-panda’s cute.

If anything, may I suggest the redesign be much less bordered-box-in-box-in-boxy? The great teacher of information design, Edward Tufte, would classify the way the comments are formatted (just to take one example) as evidence of his “1+1=3” rule; the eye perceives the space between the boxes/lines as an object as well, making it harder to see the content.

I do UX / UI design for a living so if you need someone to bounce ideas off, I’d be more than glad to offer feedback.

Great logo work.  Cheers to the designer.  I’m looking forward to seeing how you change things.

Oh, and the drop shadow isn’t terrible, it’s just too dark.  Ask your designer to lighten it up a bit and see if that doesn’t work better.

I can hardly see the drop shadows on my crummy monitor.  Maybe they show up better on a flat-screen.

I like the Panda, though you might get twitted for it looking so mad (“PMS Panda” was an early thought).  Progressives should be mad though, at this point, so it works for me.  You could maybe superimpose it over the “o” that it’s supposed to represent, that might fix the a/o issue.

What’s the cape for?  I like it, just wondering.

I would completely lose the drop shadow.  Simpler is most often better.

Liberalrob—seriously? Did you just tell the new logo to “Smile, honey, don’t spoil your pretty face?”