The graphic above is the logo for American Atheists.
It's also a very clear example why there are logical steps to follow in this business that so-often gets tangled up in subjective, emotional thinking. Yeah, designing a new logo for a client is probably the Holy Grail of all work, "See that sign? It's MINE! Mwaaahahahaha!"
Logos are silly, fun, controversial...but there are rules to their creation.
Whether you believe in God or Not, graphic designers need to believe in basic Reason. Aside from appearing to be lifted from a DEVO album (ironically, they had an excellent sense for graphic design) the AA logo fairly states that their deity is the St. Louis arch and the Helium atom.
Some day, some Atheist family is going to show up at NASA on a Sunday morning and have their faith shattered when there's no carmel rolls or singing.
What appears to me is that the designer laid out a Christian crucifix, Jewish star-of-David, Muslim crescent and morphed them when the right answer was there all along...
nothing.
