Charybdis is a logo made as a university project. The task was to create a logo that adequately represented the history and personality of the creature assigned to us. I was assigned Charybdis and decided to use his name in English to better tell her story. Charybdis was an ambitious woman who, seeking to increase the territory of her father (Poseidon), tried to flood the earth; as punishment, Zeus turned her into a monster that generated whirlpools by absorbing so much water, a nod to her unlimited ambition.
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Caribdis es un logo realizado como proyecto de universidad. La consigna era realizar un logo que representara de forma adecuada la historia y personalidad de la criatura que se nos fuera asignada. Me asignaron Caribdis y decidí usar su nombre en inglés para contar mejor su historia. Caribdis era una mujer ambiciosa que buscando aumentar el territorio de su padre (Poseidón) intentó inundar la tierra; como castigo Zeus la convirtió en un monstruo que generaba remolinos al absorber tanta agua, siendo un guiño a su ambición ilimitada.
In the logo there are several nods to the history of Charybdis, such as:
- The letter "A" is inspired by the structure of the letters of the Greek alphabet
- The grid of the logo is based on two half circles paying homage to Charybdis and Scylla (the two monsters worked together, Scylla in the mountain and Charybdis in the sea; generating a strait almost impossible to cross)
- The structure of the letters is inspired by the letters of Ancient Greece as can be seen in the letter "B" and "D"
- The letter "Y" is shown as a trident paying tribute to her origin as she is the daughter of Poseidon
- All the letters give the sensation of exerting force towards the center, leaving the central letters "R", "Y", "B" enclosed; paying tribute to the phrase that these two monsters inspired "Between Scylla and Charybdis" which we currently know as "Between a rock and a hard place" to refer to a situation in which one is in the middle of two dangers.
- The grid of the logo is based on two half circles paying homage to Charybdis and Scylla (the two monsters worked together, Scylla in the mountain and Charybdis in the sea; generating a strait almost impossible to cross)
- The structure of the letters is inspired by the letters of Ancient Greece as can be seen in the letter "B" and "D"
- The letter "Y" is shown as a trident paying tribute to her origin as she is the daughter of Poseidon
- All the letters give the sensation of exerting force towards the center, leaving the central letters "R", "Y", "B" enclosed; paying tribute to the phrase that these two monsters inspired "Between Scylla and Charybdis" which we currently know as "Between a rock and a hard place" to refer to a situation in which one is in the middle of two dangers.
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En el logo hay varios guiños a la historia de Caribdis, como por ejemplo:
- La letra "A" está inspirada en la estructura de las letras del alfabeto griego
- La cuadrícula del logo se basa en dos semicírculos que rinden homenaje a Caribdis y Escila (los dos monstruos trabajaron juntos, Escila en la montaña y Caribdis en el mar; generando un estrecho casi imposible de cruzar)
- La estructura de las letras está inspirada en las letras de la Antigua Grecia como se puede observar en la letra "B" y "D"
- La letra "Y" se muestra como un tridente rindiendo homenaje a su origen al ser hija de Poseidón
- Todas las letras dan la sensación de ejercer fuerza hacia el centro, dejando encerradas las letras centrales "R", "Y", "B"; rindiendo homenaje a la frase que inspiraron estos dos monstruos “Entre Escila y Caribdis” que actualmente conocemos como “Entre la espada y la pared” para referirse a una situación en la que uno se encuentra en medio de dos peligros.
