Graphic Design

Basic Logo

When we sat down with our graphic designer, the guidelines were: 1) Keep is Simple  3) Use the blue we earlier selected. To the left is what we received back. The image to the right is our favorite option on a Thumbnail test. 

Though we loved the last one with the globe, we ran into issues with the television network of the same name. Here is their logo:

 We wanted to keep the concept of the show global, so incorporating a globe was important to us.      So we sent our designer back to the drawing board with that in mind and here is what we got back:

We loved it and approved it for the show. It is simple and original. I'm glad that we didn't settle on the first one that we fell in love with. 

Channel Icon

Our circular channel icon is the globe taken from the ION Logo. Here's just that:

Channel Header

Just as important as a stellar Logo and Icon is the Channel Header. It is what welcomes people to your corner of YouTube. We also had our Designer make one of those up:

Though initially hesitant with the skull, it grew on me. I gave back the notes that I wanted to shrink "with Adam James" and add "In Other News" somewhere on the header. It is not shown anywhere else. Then I saw another issue on the mobile platform:

With this, I also requested that everything get swapped to the skull would be behind the Channel ICON on Mobile. This is the final header we ended up with: