LH Voting for New Rank Insignia

[maxzorin]

I understand this thread is not for discussion, the original request for new insignias was for that, but since the anonymous submissions were not submitted there I would like to comment on them here, aware of the fact that I might be stepping on the toes of this anonymous contributor.

I don't really understand why several people appear to like them so much. Personally, I think they're not very esthetically pleasing and quite unoriginal, since both background and font are 1 on 1 copies from the Matrix.
The rank characters, although from the Matrix font as well, look way too much like Japanese (actually most of them are Japanese characters, if not all), which makes no sense to me.
The fact that those characters are in a different location for the director clashes with my sense of consistency as well, although I realize the size of the Spyglass image makes this necessary, which in turn is necessary to make it recognizable.

What I do like about them is the border, the glow in the top left and bottom right is nice, and the actual ship pictures, which are sharp, clean, proportional and neatly orientated almost identically.
So, not bad as a concept, just too much of a Matrix ripoff for my tastes.

A different degree of professionalism is also apparent from the execution of the various submissions.
(I have a webdesign company and have worked with a lot of different graphic designers on various projects, just so you know where I'm coming from.)
Some of the submissions are clearly done by someone with extensive experience, especially (obviously) Xing's work. Although the actual ship images show a bit too much variance in orientation and amount of blur, the attention to detail he displays is astonishing and I guess I've always been a sucker for that sort of thing.

Oh well, hope I haven't offended anyone, just wanted to explain my opinion.

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Max Zorin - Pharmaceutically enhanced engineering of automated combat routines for shipboard computer systems.
Strength: Programming microchips to dodge big rocks. Weakness: Dodging big rocks.