The first one has something that looks suspiciously like a penis on the bottom-right.
I'm sure it doesn't look like that if you're an electrical engineer, or whatever, but people -- especially kids and teenagers -- *will* see that, and that's probably not the kind of attention EOMA needs. :)
My apologies for the unintended phallic imagery... That wasn't what I was aiming for. I was actually just trying to use some different EE symbols to reconstruct the `M` and the `A` of EOMA. I was using the list of symbols from the following reference.
http://rapidtables.com/electric/electrical_symbols.htm
I think the offending symbol you are referring to is the `OR` symbol.
Just to better explain what I was aiming at, I took some colors to the original symbols to highlight the individual letter representations.
http://i.imgur.com/jjUbFx5.png
In the color coded (first) version the E is in red, O is in blue, M is in green and A is in pink.
By the way, I think these are the best logos I've seen on this list. The only gripe I have (well, other than the unintentional phallus in the first one) is that they don't really seem to represent modularity; the first one, in particular, rather looks like a circuit board, and one of the major points of EOMA is that users *don't* have to look at circuit boards to perform upgrades; they just have to pop out a card and replace it with another card. It seems like there must be some possible way to use this basic logo concept to represent that somehow.
In both of the logos that sent out the `E` was actually supposed to represent an EOMA CPU/passthrough card. That is why it looks like a squatty elongated E. I represented the O in the way that I did as I wanted it to represent the PCMCIA slot or housing that it fits into. So together the E and the O represent a modular CPU card being inserted into a device/housing. For the first logo I was intending to show that the specification provides an incredibly low level connection between the CPU card and the housing.
For the second logo... I was thinking that I liked some of the ideas and imagery of the first but that it was way too busy. Plus and end user might get a bit bewildered by it.
Oh and I have one more general comment about logo creation of this sort... I think that it is very important to make sure it will look good rendered in only black and white because, that is essentially what it is going to look like when the logo/certification mark gets silk-screened onto a product.
-Mike