Now that Nano Banana has created a new logo, I thought I should review the older one and explain how I got here.
I forget which AI I used to make the above logo. Androken is a mash up of the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers’ names. They join at Merrymeeting Bay not far from where I live. I thought it would be a good name and I tried to create a logo from it.
As you can see, there are two streams of blue snaking down to the globe that represents Merrymeeting. It took numerous prompts and bad results with the AI engine to get this far. This used 2024 AI technology.
The new logo has a much more modern and crisper feel to it. The two rivers are still represented by the flow into a camera’s eye. This was the result of a single prompt, which produced four different examples. One thing that Gemini was particularly proud of (can AI be proud of something??) is that Nano was able to incorporate “Androken” into the logo without correcting or changing it as a spell correct algorithm might try to do.
In addition, Gemini/Nano Banana also produced a black and white variant:
Plus, with digital technology, I can capture the graphic and do my own typography.
All very cool.
I do understand the concern an artist might have that Nano was stealing work. Since I am not making any money from the imaging work I’m doing I cannot afford to hire an artist to make logos. We are in a very weird time where technology is quickly changing and we humans are hard pressed to keep up. A curse, possibly ancient: May you live in interesting times.