Iterative logo design for Claude Code. Describe your project, explore concepts, refine through conversation, export production PNGs — all without leaving the terminal.
An in-browser audio/video censorship tool with a comic book aesthetic. Here's the full iteration journey from first concept to final logo.
Five distinct directions were explored: a censored speech bubble, an audio waveform with a censor bar, a megaphone, pixel block text, and an asterisk burst. Each captured a different facet of the app's personality — playful censorship meets audio processing.
Concepts 1 (speech bubble) and 2 (waveform) resonated most. Three variations of each were generated to test different color palettes, proportions, and levels of detail before committing to a direction.
The waveform direction won out. Iterations 1 through 6 explored making the waveform bars more abstract, experimenting with a central censor block overlaying the bars, and adjusting the overall balance between audio visualization and censorship metaphor.
The design needed to read well at tiny sizes. Iterations 7 through 10 focused on simplifying the shapes, increasing bar thickness, and boosting contrast so the logo would remain recognizable as a browser favicon.
With the waveform + censor block concept established, iterations 11 through 16 explored different treatments of the red censorship block — its size relative to the bars, corner radius, positioning, and whether the bars should pass behind or stop at the block edge.
A creative pivot. The red block was replaced with a glowing HAL 9000-style eye at the center of the waveform bars, introducing a "watching and listening" personality. Iterations 17 through 22 explored this new focal element with different eye sizes, glow intensities, and bar arrangements.
With the eye concept locked in, iterations 23 through 27 refined the details: centering the eye precisely, adding a radial gradient for depth, introducing a metallic bezel ring, and tuning the highlight reflections to give it a glassy, dimensional feel.
The app has a playful, irreverent personality, so iterations 28 through 32 applied comic book aesthetics: bold dark outlines, halftone dot patterns, saturated colors, and a drop shadow offset to match the app's existing visual language.
The last push. Iterations 33 through 37 dialed in every detail: eye contrast and gradient tuning, bar width and spacing proportions, halftone dot density, shadow color warmth, and bezel ring sizing. Each change was small but meaningful at this stage.
Iteration 37: a red comic-book panel with yellow drop shadow, halftone dot texture, three bold yellow waveform bars on each side, and a pink-to-red HAL 9000 eye with a yellow bezel ring at the center. Playful, bold, and unmistakably "Bleep That Sh*t!"
How the final logo holds up at the smallest sizes.
Install the skill and start iterating. Just describe what you're building and Claude handles the rest.