You can assign any art to some time period, but unless it was created deliberately to emulate it, you can't say it's following a trend. I merely like blue shiny things.

I can show so many logos from 2010's that were not done in this stupid flat style. You make it sound like it didn't come about only recently (past 2 years at most). You both are literally doing a "this logo is so last year!".

So how do they start something "new"? The logo in question is the hot new thing!

The first time I saw those logos I chuckled because I thought SiegeLord was joking. They don't fit in with what most people expect these days.

But I'm all for Allegro being more retro and all that, but that's not how you get more users.

If you think a logo will have any effect on the number of users we get, you're living in a very interesting world... We're not that desperate to literally grasp at every newfangled trend.

Look at this, incidentally:

Do you know what that is? That's Ruby. Ruby, the most hyped up language I've ever seen in my life.

Geez, I thought SiegeLord's logo was good. Has anyone come up with anything else? Lets see it.

In my opinion the new logo should be created with a5 and some kind of shader but I dunno how to do that.

So come on, design some shit!

Here's my attempt using Paint.NET (full size the image cuz the preview is a jpg) :
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https://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/608476

Did you look at the full size? The preview jpg is messed up.

And I don't see anything better coming out of you AMColey

This ought to be darn well good enough.

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Now get off my lawn.

I seriously like that idea. Just a single color version with the old A4 font, it's brilliant, so much character. And it's flat so even AMCerasoli would like it

The pink draft was so I inspiring, I could persuade wife to make some more variants.

Note these are quick drafts, i. e. the 'a' / 'A' was just scanned from paper and not properly vectorized.

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For those who dislike flatness and prefer gradients and depth effects, you can easily make it look like someone applied a cheap Photoshop filter by doing ... exactly that:
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If everybody makes logos i am a lemming too...

I SO DAMN LIKE that hand-sketched 5. And I like the light-blue.

And I also like the vectorized purple retro with that "5" in the triangle.

Yeah you guess what I dig....it's the 5.

The "snaky" alligator unfortunately look quite bad in the context...it's been thrown in.

SUM IT UP:

Poly, have your sweetheart sketch a capital "A" that pars (in style and dimensions) with the "5"....there we could use the extended Allegro5 with the current layout and the contrapted "A5" form as logo proper.

The hand-sketch conveys all the right moods about what Allegro is in my opinion.

It's ok guys, I've done the only logo we're ever going to need/use. Everyone stand down.

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HEY! Don't be....oh wait it does look that.