New DMPulse Logo

Thanks to everyone who voted!  The new logo is:

New DMPulse logo

Vote on the new DMPulse logo

It is time for a new logo for DMPulse, and we are letting the audience decide.  Check out the logos below and vote for your favorite here!

DMPulse Logos

Logo #1

Ear buds as "d" and "p"









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Logo #2

 Headphones with "dmpulse" audio wave image




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Logo #3

 Ear buds with "dmpulse" audio wave image

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Logo #4

 Vertical ear bud with cord






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Logo #5

 Vertical ear bud without cord





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Logo #6

Horizontal ear bud 






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The Making of the next DMPulse Logo - Part 1

For the past several weeks, I've been working with Andrew from Ozone Consulting to develop a new logo for DMPulse.  After several teleconferences, and quite a bit of back and forth, we are ready to unveil our four finalists for you to vote on!  That's right, the DMPulse audience gets to chose the new logo!  Before we get to the unveiling, I wanted to share some of the early versions so you can see the process.

Fairly early, we landed on a font that we liked pretty well.  




But, something important to me is for our new logo to have a visual tie-in so you know easily what the logo is representing.  For example, a tire company logo that incorporates a wheel.  That is pretty challenging with an internet radio station.  What represents a radio station?  Andrew and I kicked around idea after idea...  We tried a microphone, but it looks too cartoon-y.



We tried earbuds in various states






We tried a boombox, but it's just too retro!



One brainstorm was to try to "visualize" DMPulse by using an actual image of the audio of our station "voice" saying DMPulse.  You'll see that incorporated here with one of our headphone versions.



None of the above made the cut, but they have helped get us to where we are now.  Keep an ear to the station, and an eye on this website, as we'll be rolling out finalists soon!



Share your thoughts on the logos above by emailing me at jay AT dmpulse.com!

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Top 10 - Week ending Sept. 11

This Week's Top 10

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Wrestle
2. Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
3. The Black Keys - Howlin' For You
4. Dan Mangan - Road Regrets
5. Tokyo Police Club - Wait Up (Boots of Danger)
6. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
7. The Arcade Fire - Ready To Start
8. The National- Runaway
9. Free Energy - Something In Common
10. Mumford & Sons - Awake My Soul