As Tordotcom Publishing approaches our fifth anniversary, we’re excited to celebrate by unveiling a new logo: a fresh, modern design that fully encompasses all the many different stories that we are proud to publish.
Stubby the Rocket has graced our pages from our very first book to our latest release (and rest assured, Stubby will still be our magazine masthead), but this new logo shows that Tordotcom Publishing doesn’t only publish science fiction. We provide a home for emerging and established writers of all types of SFF, from epic fantasy to wuxia, cyberpunk, fantasy romance, Africanfuturism, and so much more. Our authors reinvent American history, turn Cthulian horror upside-down, and create portals to unexplored worlds—this logo will serve as a reminder to keep pushing boundaries and continue publishing some of the most exciting work in the genre.
Irene Gallo, Publisher Tordotcom:
“The rocket (that we continue to love and adore) was not initially designed as an imprint logo. Switching to this logo-type gave us a chance to further solidify Tordotcom as an imprint, have our full name proudly displayed on our books, and help us represent the breadth of voices that we have the honor to publish.”
Our thanks to Drive Communications for their work on the design, and to all the authors, editors, agents, artists, and many other people on the Tordotcom team who work so hard to bring our books to life. And a special thank you to our readers, who make it all possible.
I will miss the rocket ship, but I enjoy the new design and the ways you can improvise with it.
Quite unexpected, but I like the new design.
The toddler crayon scribbles, to me, really make the new logo…
Not wild about the B&W version, but like the rainbow and the “art showing thru a stencil” versions.
If you read the letters diagonally from top left to bottom right, it could also be seen as a nod to Tom Doherty, Tor’s founder.
And forgot to add: Glad to read that Stubby will still be around.
Has it really been 5 years already? How time flies.
I like the succinct story the new logo tells: of how a mysterious someone’s Tic-Tac-Toe victory prevented Pac-Man from claiming his crown. :)
Kidding aside, I like it a lot. And @1, as I understand it this redesign is solely for the publishing imprint, so when you miss the rocket just hop back to the blog and feast your eyes!
Now, back to business: when’s your next open-submissions window? (You knew someone would ask, right?)
Nice, clean and grabby logo! And happy birthday!
Woah, happy 5 years! And wow, I am loving this new logo! Kudos to the whole team! Looking forward to reading more books from you guys!
You know what would a great way to celebrate five years? An omnibus ebook including all of the fiction published by tor dot com in the last half decade :D
That style of letter has been around for a very long time, particularly back in the day of the stencil, but everything old is new again. I much prefer the color versions, too.
TDC? Is it Top Dead Center?
OOO! in that case,
RTM. Read the Manual, and Release to Manufacturing.
Super proud the launch of my logo design for Tordotcom coincides with their fifth anniversary. The amount of creative firepower packed into this one group is otherworldy, and I’m honored to play a small part.
Can Pacman eat the three dots before being caught by the ghost?
The black and white logo reminds me of the old Science Fiction Bookstore logo in NYC in the 1970s–I still have a t-shirt from them from those days (alas, it would not fit me now!)