Blender is a 3D modeling software, created in 1994 with its latest release in 2020. The program has a lot you graphical functions and has its versions for almost all the possible operating systems.
Blender is a very popular free 3D modeling, animation, and rendering program that is widely used by users around the world due to its almost limitless possibilities and flexible tools that allow you to create high-quality models and animations. Blender is open source, which means that anyone can modify it to suit their purposes. The program can be used by amateurs and professionals because it is suitable for different tasks.
In short, Blender is a tool that helps to realize any creative ideas in virtual space, from architectural visualizations to game development and animation creation. And they created this indispensable tool for designers back in the mid-1990s.
The idea of creating Blender originated in 1995 by a young Dutch programmer Ton Rozendaal, who at that time worked for NeoGeo. Ton’s main goal was to create a program that would help 3D designers realize the most daring ideas. And he succeeded.
Already in 1998, Blender was released as freeware, which opened up new perspectives and allowed many aspiring 3D artists to get acquainted with the world of computer graphics. In 2002, the Blender Foundation was created, which made it possible to attract outside investment. A year later, the creators of Blender opened the code of the program and released it under the GNU license.
The logo, used by the Blender 3D program for several months in 1999 featured a super bright and voluminous graphical element, drawn, of course, in 3D, without any lettering. It was a stylized circular eye emblem with its central part in acid green and brownish-burgundy resembling an avocado cut with a spherical seed. The framing was set in silver and black, slightly grounding the craziness of the main shades.
The Blender logo has many versions of its meaning. Being bright and recognizable, it looks different for all the people who look at it. The logo is composed of an emblem and a wordmark on its right.
The Blender nameplate in all the lowercase lettering is executed in a traditional sans-serif typeface, where the letters are slightly extended and “b” and “d” have their upper parts cut diagonally, while “n” and “r” top bars are stretched.
The Blender emblem is the most mysterious element of the brand’s visual identity. It is an orange circle with 3 lines coming out of it and a solid blue dot in the middle. And there are several versions of its meaning.
Version number one says it is a hand with three fingers up and fourth and fifth fingers making a circle, like an “OK” hand sign.
The second version says it is an eye, which represents the software’s purpose — visualization.
The third version combines both — it is an eye in hand, which is a popular cultural symbol, representing both observation (an eye) and action (a hand).
The fourth version of the Blender logo says that its an image of a blender in action from the top-view. You blend things into the program and get the final amazing result.
Whatever the real meaning of the Blender logo is, it looks bright and contemporary and makes people use all their creativity and imagination to solve its mystery.