I’ve used a homemade ham logo for a while now. I think I designed it back in 2014 when I started this blog. Initially it was only there to serve as a favicon for my new blog, but over time it seeped into other places and I started using it on other social media channels and projects I was building. I once went nuts and ordered a pack with hundreds of die-cut vinyl stickers with that “ham” logo and started handing those out at in-person meetups and sticking them on the walls of dodgy dive bars. Super high-quality stuff. I don’t know if people even wanted to have those stickers I was handing out, but it sure was a fun conversation starter. And wow, there are still so many of them left that I’m sure that I’ll get to bug people for a long time to come.
A bunch of ham stickers.
I chose this cartoonish “ham on a bone” logo as a tongue-in-cheek reference to my chosen nickname. My name, “Ham”, doesn’t have anything to do with that piece of meat, but its a fun double entendre to play with.
Over the years I’ve grown a little tired of that “ham on a bone” logo and was looking for something that’s a little less grim than a dead piece of meat. I came across the fantastic Hey Hey Momo, an artist drawing refreshingly cute and positive comics about Momo (a dog) and his friend Forg (a frog). They were offering commissioned avatars over on Mastodon and I reached out and asked them if they could create a little pig avatar for me. They came back with two fantastic drawings, once a plain old piggie, and then a pig enjoying a cold one.
Heyheymomo’s piggie illustrations.
I fell in love with both illustrations on the spot. They’ve got so much more character, positivity, and ✨ good vibes ✨ than the old logo.
It’s been a few months since I got these illustrations made and I haven’t found the time to use them on this website until today. I’ve just replaced the “ham” logo in the top navigation and this site’s favicon with these lovely piggies.
It’s not like any of this matters, it’s just a silly avatar on some random dude’s personal website after all. But it’s alovely change on a lovely Sunday and I’m just so happy with what Heyheymomo came up with that I wanted to share this with all of you.
Have a great day out there, folks!