got this free sample pen in a sales mailer from pens.com yesterday with my web studio’s logo engraved on it. first off, i’m impressed with the quality. but secondly, how did they get ahold of this monochrome outlined version of my logo? i can’t remember posting it anywhere!
@alan really? wonder what AI does that! it’s exactly the kind of tedious task i had hoped AI would be doing.
@alan (as opposed to the actual creative work)
@sabbatical It seems like the sort of thing an AI should be good (and actually useful) at.
@alan if it is what happened, i'm curious if the AI made it from this badge-type one, or if they found the plain version someplace i've forgotten.
@alan the only place i can find my plain one online is this dribbble shot: https://dribbble.com/shots/999085-Recycled-Logo-Concept-for-Unnormal which wouldn't be much easier to simplify. they interpreted the overlapping lines exactly how i would've. makes me think i must have put up my monochrome version somewhere.
@sabbatical We have the exact same pens at the office, but just with name and url… time to ask for a fresh batch, I dare say
@levisan unfortunately i’m lefthanded, so ballpoints aren’t my favourite. this sent me down a rabbit hole of trawling their site to see if they had any pigment ink of felt tip pens. they do have gel, which will probably work well enough for me. but weirdly the code they sent with the pen for auto-populating my logo in their system doesn’t work!
@sabbatical I understand that struggle! My dad's a leftie and I'm pretty sure he still buys the same pens he settled on over 20 years ago
@sabbatical Sadly, I suspect they just handed your published logo to an AI and ask for an outline version.