Just a few (very rough) ideas and thoughts, that came with those, solutions to what I wanted to depict are in the spoilers. Just so you could have more of a chance to guess.
first pic: I guess, you‘d usually use Katakana (Wikipedia say that they‘d use those for tech terms/brands) for the first one (オノ-センダイ), but I‘m not sure if that wouldn’t obscure the meaning? Also not sure about the dash (-) in this.
>!My japanese isn‘t great, my translation of ono-sendai is (word for word: ono, sen, dai): axe, plug, great? But that‘s just guessing. Alternatively, sen could as well be the number 1000 (千), which would kinda fit as well (1000 times as awesome), but I‘d say Japanese people are a bit more humble than that. Otherwise it‘s a cute play of words. Since ‚axe‘ is already in the product name, I thought adding an ICE axe would be kinda cute, hadn‘t seen that anywhere on other fan-art/stickers when I did a little searching!<
second pic: I tried that without any colors, but that‘s a little hard to read, imo. I think the RGB adds a little of the late 80‘ early 90‘ style of branding. I guess it could be fun to 3d print this as a relief, with the characters sticking out then use some acrylic to color that, or print the characters seperately and glue them on the three-colored background.
>!I dunno if ‚hosaka‘ carries any meaning/connotations that I‘m not aware of, if anyone can comment on that, I‘d be glad to know. !<
in general:
>!I just read the Sprawl trillogy, and the burning chrome collection of short stories mention ‚sendai‘, ‚ono-sendai‘, and ‚hosaka‘ separately in different contexts. I‘m new to Sprawl and Gibson‘s work, so I‘m not quite sure if sendai and hosaka belong together or are part of a later merger, thus form a new megacorp, or if there‘s any consensus on this in general. Seen that a few things are on ‘fandom‘ cyberpunk wiki, but the fandom sites are shit in general, and those pages contain even less info than I gathered for myself when reading.!<
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Just a few (very rough) ideas and thoughts, that came with those, solutions to what I wanted to depict are in the spoilers. Just so you could have more of a chance to guess.
first pic: I guess, you‘d usually use Katakana (Wikipedia say that they‘d use those for tech terms/brands) for the first one (オノ-センダイ), but I‘m not sure if that wouldn’t obscure the meaning? Also not sure about the dash (-) in this.
>!My japanese isn‘t great, my translation of ono-sendai is (word for word: ono, sen, dai): axe, plug, great? But that‘s just guessing. Alternatively, sen could as well be the number 1000 (千), which would kinda fit as well (1000 times as awesome), but I‘d say Japanese people are a bit more humble than that. Otherwise it‘s a cute play of words. Since ‚axe‘ is already in the product name, I thought adding an ICE axe would be kinda cute, hadn‘t seen that anywhere on other fan-art/stickers when I did a little searching!<
second pic: I tried that without any colors, but that‘s a little hard to read, imo. I think the RGB adds a little of the late 80‘ early 90‘ style of branding. I guess it could be fun to 3d print this as a relief, with the characters sticking out then use some acrylic to color that, or print the characters seperately and glue them on the three-colored background.
>!I dunno if ‚hosaka‘ carries any meaning/connotations that I‘m not aware of, if anyone can comment on that, I‘d be glad to know. !<
in general:
>!I just read the Sprawl trillogy, and the burning chrome collection of short stories mention ‚sendai‘, ‚ono-sendai‘, and ‚hosaka‘ separately in different contexts. I‘m new to Sprawl and Gibson‘s work, so I‘m not quite sure if sendai and hosaka belong together or are part of a later merger, thus form a new megacorp, or if there‘s any consensus on this in general. Seen that a few things are on ‘fandom‘ cyberpunk wiki, but the fandom sites are shit in general, and those pages contain even less info than I gathered for myself when reading.!<
Big Ono-Sendai fan here. Thank you!