here is zee final logo

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the best logo I could cook up for the Brookville Bees. When I first started to sketch these suckers out, I was going for a semi-militaristic feel to them- almost like something you would see on a flag. My first design was the very square looking bee in the lower left corner of the original four. I liked it, but then felt that it looked too much like something one might see on a building block- it was very boring, and while that is an accurate adjective to describe my high school, I wanted something more exciting. I then tried to adapt the original design of the Brookville Bee, with the initials "BHS" into my design. This lead to a more organic and fun shape to my logo, but I still wanted to lean more towards something more stylized.
I was still milking the idea of using a religious symbol, so I thought to toy with the stereotypical opposite of what my predominately conservative, Baptist high school stood for- of course I went for the somewhat-less-than-subtle Pentagram. For this design I made the Bee more angular, and a tad more sinister. While I thouroughly enjoyed the sense of irony attached to the design, I once again went in another direction. Along with a Pentagram and a Star of David sketches that showed up in my first ideas, the image of a Yin Yang and the Rising Sun came into my head. This lead to a combination of my second, more organic Bee and the idea of using pseudo-religious imagery.
Despite my original idea to take a stab at the overall conservative feel of my high school (Jerry Falwell went there, for goodness sakes), I'm glad I went with the Yin Yang theme because Brookville is relativelly well-rounded and balanced when it comes to academics. At first I was going to add rays jutting from the circle, like Japan's Rising Sun, but this made it too busy and clunky. I think this design is an improvement on the original in that it is much more sleek and stylish. It would also look pretty nice on school merch, if I do say so myself.