{"id":14,"date":"2026-09-18T19:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2026-09-18T19:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:55:24","slug":"the-story-of-the-ogp-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the OGP Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had just landed on the concept of using \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/?p=16\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"16\">oneiroglossy<\/a>\u201d as the brand for this press. I needed a logo that spoke to the language of dreams. Things, creatures, that come up from the depths. Night-time, and the illusions and fears that can bring. The depths themselves, some great ocean.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using those images and ideas, I drew this sketch. I used a photo of a crocodile as a reference for this sea creature that is rising from the deep. Is it a dragon? Ceto? Some other sort of leviathan?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-logo-1.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, I knew I needed to simplify it a great deal. I made a few copies of the sketch and started, first, by inking it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it wasn\u2019t simple enough. So I started tracing the inked versions and getting tighter and tighter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-concept-sketch.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I decided I needed to focus mostly on the creature\u2019s eye, as that was the idea or being that had risen out of the sea. It was also the most compelling and interesting part of the sketches.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, I decided, since I was cutting out the sickle of the waning moon, I\u2019d make the eye use a moon shape as a pupil. That makes the creature even more magical, and dream-like.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-concept-art.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6\" style=\"width:349px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I even tried focusing only on the iris.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-logo-2.heic\" alt=\"a black and white drawing of an iris with a crescent moon as the pupil\" class=\"wp-image-7\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500072160484919;width:338px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I think the loss of context makes it less interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-concept-art-crop-1018x1024.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white drawing of a reptilian eye with a crescent moon as the pupil\" class=\"wp-image-12\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-concept-art-crop-1018x1024.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-concept-art-crop-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-concept-art-crop-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-concept-art-crop-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-concept-art-crop-1527x1536.jpg 1527w, https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oneiroglossy-concept-art-crop-2035x2048.jpg 2035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I brought it into my computer to make things out of it, I considered removing the pencil lines, the little places where my ballpoint pen had gone outside the lines. But I\u2019ve since decided to leave them there. This is hand-made, and I don\u2019t mind if it\u2019s not polished and perfect-looking.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had just landed on the concept of using \u201coneiroglossy\u201d as the brand for this press. I needed a logo that spoke to the language of dreams. Things, creatures, that come up from the depths. Night-time, and the illusions and fears that can bring. The depths themselves, some great ocean.\u00a0 Using those images and ideas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneiroglossypress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}