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MyBB Rebranding: New Logo and Mascot

By TimB. | Published January 12th, 2012 | Updates | Rating: 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars Loading ... Loading ...

Early last year, we announced the development of an official mascot which would be used in a variety ways to promote MyBB and its official merchandise. After countless hours of hard work, we’re proud to unveil our lustrous new mascot.

MyBB Mascot

MyBB Mascot

During the planning stages, the MyBB team heavily debated on what would best represent MyBB. After numerous ideas, we finally decided on an astronaut, because we feel it best demonstrates the following attributes of our forum software: strength, power, friendliness and dominance.

However, the astronaut is currently unnamed; but you can help change that. We will be announcing a naming competition soon, so stay tuned for the details.

MyBB Logo

MyBB Logo

Is it a bird? Is it a pig? No! It’s the MyBB logo! It’s great that our users always find new ways of describing our speech bubbles logo but it’s getting quite old and the team decided, along with our new mascot, we needed a new logo too.

We’ll be using the new mascot and logo across MyBB when we launch 2.0, but we just couldn’t wait to introduce them to you!

Lastly, none of this would have been possible without the talented work of Mike Creuzer (if you’re interested in his services you can find him over at Audentio Design). We’ve been extremely honored to work along side him the past few months to bring you these new and exciting assets to MyBB.

Comments

  1. 1.

    Alex Smith (January 12th, 2012, 2:36 pm)

    Do you guys want a real name like well my name? Or, a fun name like spiderman?

  2. 2.

    Yaldaram (January 12th, 2012, 3:16 pm)

    My prescribed name would be “Dominant”. :P

  3. 3.

    crazy4cs (January 12th, 2012, 3:27 pm)

    Just lovely. Mike doesn’t fail to amaze me, more power to MyBB.

  4. 4.

    Mark.M (January 12th, 2012, 4:26 pm)

    Not what I expected. Though nice design. When does the new logo come in effect?

  5. 5.

    Xstrike (January 12th, 2012, 5:59 pm)

    I like the mascot design, I think it’ll go a long way in promoting MyBB. The logo is totally sexy. All the more reason to look forward to the MyBB 2.0 release when it’s ready.

    Cheers to Mike and the MyBB team.

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    Echo off (January 12th, 2012, 7:28 pm)

    Loving it! Keep up the good work mike.

  7. 7.

    Vapor (January 12th, 2012, 11:01 pm)

    Very different….lol

    Great job though !

  8. 8.

    kavin (January 12th, 2012, 11:34 pm)

    Great work guys. :D

  9. 9.

    Flux (January 13th, 2012, 12:10 am)

    Name for astronaut: Astro

  10. 10.

    Staff Response: Paul H. (January 13th, 2012, 12:23 am)

    @Mark.M the new logo will be rolled out with 2.0.

  11. 11.

    euantor (January 13th, 2012, 12:37 am)

    Loving the new logo for sure. The mascot isn’t quite what I was expecting, but it’s still really professional looking and is sure to help improve the brand identity. I take my hat off to Mike for the amazing work he’s done here!

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    FBI (January 13th, 2012, 1:10 am)

    Cute astronaut ;)
    Even cute, but powerful and dominant

  13. 13.

    Taylor Jones (January 13th, 2012, 2:36 am)

    I don’t understand what an Astronaut has to do with MyBB or any forum software for the matter. Quite puzzling.

  14. 14.

    Ansem (January 13th, 2012, 3:17 am)

    Isn’t aquaman copyrighted ?
    Somehow it doesn’t really appeal to me, the new logo does however :)

  15. 15.

    Staff Response: Nathan Malcolm (January 13th, 2012, 3:24 am)

    @Taylor Jones “We finally decided on an astronaut, because we feel it best demonstrates the following attributes of our forum software: strength, power, friendliness and dominance.”

    @Ansem That gave me a good laugh. :)

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    Aaron (January 13th, 2012, 8:49 am)

    George is a good name. Go for George! lol

  17. 17.

    xpserkan (January 13th, 2012, 12:43 pm)

    Fine has been working. congratulations.

  18. 18.

    Rui Tiago (January 13th, 2012, 2:17 pm)

    Cool, nice design.

  19. 19.

    Simon S. (January 14th, 2012, 1:00 am)

    The astronaut looks pretty cool, but tbh I don’t really like the shape of the bubbles (actually only the left one) in the logo and the font. I hope it isn’t final just some small changes would make it almost perfect. :P

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    Envira (January 14th, 2012, 1:50 am)

    Awesome work team.
    Thanks Mike for beautiful mascot.
    The logo is quite usual but professional.

    May be the mascot can be named a “ForoMan” or a “ForoNaut”.It sweeps easy with words.

    Thank you,
    Regards,
    Dr.Envira

  21. 21.

    GamerVoid (January 14th, 2012, 2:34 pm)

    I kind of agree with Envira. The left speech bubble looks a little odd. But excellent work other than that insignificant bit!

  22. 22.

    Lokki (January 15th, 2012, 4:27 am)

    Maybe the astronaut can be named Ben!

  23. 23.

    Darrell (January 16th, 2012, 5:39 pm)

    How about Jules, Verne, or Nemo?

  24. 24.

    -Gosw- (January 18th, 2012, 8:27 am)

    Astronaut name: B. ByM. :)

  25. 25.

    4TecH (January 18th, 2012, 6:18 pm)

    I really had a nice work, congratulations:)

  26. 26.

    Kevin (January 19th, 2012, 2:20 am)

    What about Mete? It’s short and have meanings in many languages.

  27. 27.

    labrocca (February 1st, 2012, 8:24 pm)

    How about naming him Bobby? MyBB’s Bobby. MyBB Bob. Something simple and to the point plus it uses 3 letters from MyBB itself.

  28. 28.

    Nathan P. (February 2nd, 2012, 4:13 am)

    I look forward to the new logo with 2.0.

    Both look professional, and I think I’ll have to use Audentio Design’s services for when I get Leet Link back up and running.

  29. 29.

    Anand @Knownblogger (February 14th, 2012, 12:54 pm)

    That’s cool. I loved the new logo..

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