Sorry about the prior thread, I blew it up by mistake.  We had a logo contest for a new web site I'm planning called zenamps.com  (Zenamps.com will be another web site to sell our amplifiers) We took the winner logo from the contest and came up with the following:

This one is less impressive in white so far... that's why I haven't taken the time to make a white one.

This might be my best effort so far... got rid of the performance car parts feel.

I am really liking the direction of the one on black #8. I agree. It is starting to feel like the feel of your amps. The Zenamps letters (especially the black) on the white back (#9) lacks the dimension and richness of the Zenamps on the black...the black letters being pretty flat.

There is balance on the black back one, the depth and transparency of the letters complimenting the dimensionality of the globe. And the overall richness conveys the vibe of the amps while being visually seductive.

I wonder about somehow bringing the bronze, silver or yellow, or all of the above from the the globe into the Zen on the white back one...like bordering the black of the letters or filling the interior while keeping the black edges or something like this to add depth??? Don't know, but I think you are on it! I like all of these better than the original online choices.

I have to admit that after a long day - doing this for a bit in the evening with a good Scotch and some great music on the stereo is most relaxing...  and quite a bit more productive than watching TV.  

Here's a few more...

Of corse, not that anyone ever will, but seeing it BIG is kinda fun...

Well I'm not going to get anything better than this tonight... time to float in some music!

Is there a (planned?) Zen amp with that tube?

I like (in order of preference)  #2 (I love the mercury vapor tube), #8 and #6.

I'm still with the black background. It has a grounding to it. no pun intended.

I was confused. I figured there was a black background and white back one.... working variations on the "same" but intended for different backgrounds. Needing it to be exactly the same for all backgrounds....Ouch.

I think the last one (#16) is really nice considering the much more difficult white background. I do find the breakup of some of the 1st watt phrase letters disconcerting. And as-is I would think...just maybe, it could show on black, but could get lost, for example on this webpage background.

Assuming these are for advertising on web and perhaps on paper, shirts etc, I would think it would be fine to have two variations, one adapting the lettering coloring to light backing and one for dark, as long as they were clearly the "same" logo, with the same globe, type, layout and feel. With these conditions, in the independent experience of them popping off light, or popping off dark, I don't think I would even think about questioning that they were the same thing. But I am no logo expert.

If they need to be exactly the same on light or dark backs, I guess you have already tried this, but does the black background one (#8) work on white? Maybe either 8 and 16 will work on either background with some light tweaking. I also wonder about #8 with the orange letter coloring in the Zen and its lighter color in amps.

Personally I don't see what that tube has to do with Zen Amps, but it does look cool. I'd rather see part of a Torii or the Zen Monoblocks in that image, I think that would represent the amp site better. But that's just me!

Yup,  I knew I saw this orb making a crop circle...

No, but I will... got distracted in other areas of the forum...