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Byomkesh Bakshi, created by Bengali author Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, is a self-proclaimed Satyanweshi—a seeker of truth.
I tried to recreate a scene from one of his most famous cases, “Pother Kanta” (The Thorn on the Path). In 1932 Calcutta, wealthy, childless men are mysteriously killed in crowded streets. There is no gunshot, no witness, and no visible weapon—only a gramophone needle piercing the heart.
The killer’s weapon is a modified bicycle bell. When the rider rings it, the bell masks the sound as it fires the needle. The cyclist then disappears into the crowd, leaving behind a perfect mystery.
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Blade Soundsystems. A logo with an edge.
Blade Soundsystems is a self-initiated concept: a fictional audio brand I created to explore one question. How do you make a name this sharp into a mark that truly belongs to it?
A blade is precise and memorable. It is also an easy cliché, the kind of symbol that ends up placed next to a name and never really belongs to it.
So I didn’t draw a sword beside the word. I made the word the sword.
The mark
The whole logo is one object that reads in a single line, from grip to tip.
The word is the blade. The letters b-l-a-d-e form the body of the weapon. Their heavy, slanted shapes sit tightly together, so the name holds as one solid piece of steel.
The ascenders are the serrations. The tops of b, l and d end in sharp, angled points that break the silhouette and give the word its bite.
One fine line runs through it. Starting at the guard, a narrow cut splits the bars before the word, like the fuller of a real blade. It returns after the “e” as a thin line sweeping into the tip, and that small detail makes the form feel forged rather than typed.
The guard and grip do the rest. A short crossguard and a tapered grip finish the silhouette. They’re simple enough that the sword is clear at a glance, and they let the word stay the hero.
The slant gives the mark its direction. It leans forward and points right, so it seems to be moving even at rest.
The descriptor
Below the blade, “soundsystems” is set in small, light, widely spaced lowercase. It’s the quiet counterpoint to all that weight and tells you at once what the brand does. It also shifts the tone: without it, the mark could belong to a knife maker. With it, sharpness becomes a promise about sound.
The colour
Black and white, nothing else. A mark this graphic doesn’t need colour to work, and the strict contrast matches the world it lives in: dark hardware, metal grilles and glowing status lights. It works equally well as a positive and a negative version.
The result
A logo that is a single, ownable shape, and that stays recognizable at very small sizes. The concept mockups test it where it would have to perform: on a speaker grille and at the top of an app screen.
