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I'm thinking non-political thoughts, I'm thinking non-political thoughts...
Still trying to name my graphic design/comics/publishing business. Right now, I'm dithering between Icefall Press (or Icefall Graphics, Icefall Comics, however I need to adapt it for whatever application I'm using it for at the time ...) and Fireweed Studios. The big problem with Fireweed is that it's one of those regionally over-used business names -- between Alaska and the north of Canada, there's basically every kind of business you can think of that uses Fireweed in the name.
Whatever I come up with, I want it to be Alaska-themed, to have some kind of personal meaning for me, and to sound good to other people as well. (That was the problem with Susitna Mythographics -- I loved it, but people didn't get it.) Fireweed is perhaps my very favorite northern flower, and its blooming season also coincides with my birthday. It always went really well with the other, more traditional July birth month things -- ruby (birthstone) and rose (official flower).
Icefall ... that's a little more obscure, but I've been thinking on my walks with the dogs that one of the things I most love about this particular piece of land on which we live, is the massive overflow in the First Chance Creek ravine. It's unique and cool and I love going out there every day to see how the ice has changed. "Overflow" just sounds silly, but "icefall" (according to Wikipedia, the fast-changing part of a glacier) seems like a perfect metaphor for what it's doing in that ravine. It also has kind of a cool fantasy sound to it.
... Damn it, I just dropped a piece of chocolate into my keyboard. (Yes, I'm eating Cadbury eggs again.)
Whatever I come up with, I want it to be Alaska-themed, to have some kind of personal meaning for me, and to sound good to other people as well. (That was the problem with Susitna Mythographics -- I loved it, but people didn't get it.) Fireweed is perhaps my very favorite northern flower, and its blooming season also coincides with my birthday. It always went really well with the other, more traditional July birth month things -- ruby (birthstone) and rose (official flower).
Icefall ... that's a little more obscure, but I've been thinking on my walks with the dogs that one of the things I most love about this particular piece of land on which we live, is the massive overflow in the First Chance Creek ravine. It's unique and cool and I love going out there every day to see how the ice has changed. "Overflow" just sounds silly, but "icefall" (according to Wikipedia, the fast-changing part of a glacier) seems like a perfect metaphor for what it's doing in that ravine. It also has kind of a cool fantasy sound to it.
... Damn it, I just dropped a piece of chocolate into my keyboard. (Yes, I'm eating Cadbury eggs again.)
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Wow. I'm no help at all, am I?
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I really love Caribou Rose! It might make a better character name, though. I could see her as a gold rush-era go-go dancer or prostitute with heart of gold...
The trouble with most Alaska plants is that they have really unevocative names. Wild Carrot Studios ... Cow Parsnip Graphics ... Harebell Press ... (Actually, that last one is kind of cool.)
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People will call it Hairball Press, you know.
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Definitely not using that one, in any case. Still think it sounds cool, though.
It's a kind of bluebell. Very pretty.
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What about... Falling Ice? It implies surprises at every turn!
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*sigh*
I like Icefall. It's local without being ubiquitous.
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It's local without being ubiquitous.
Oh, excellent way to put it! That's exactly what I'm going for. There are so many local business names that would be incredibly cool if everyone wasn't already using similar ones
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Some examples of words you may want to consider (from a non-Alaskan's point of view)...
Denali
Bering
Salmon
Pipeline
Sitka
Kodiak
Yukon
Kenai
Copper River
Ketchikan
Some examples that popped into my head while making up the above list:
Copper River Graphics
Bering Strait Line Studios [I know, it's a stupid pun]
Pipeline Press
Salmonberry Studio Arts
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Pipeline Press sounds really cool! And the pipeline actually goes within about a mile of where I live; we drive past it every day on our way to and from town...
The trouble with a lot of these, though, from the Alaskan point of view, is that they're either dreadfully overused (i.e. Denali) or they're referencing elements of geography that are a thousand miles or more from where I live. Sitka might as well be in Colorado from the viewpoint of Fairbanksans, despite the coolness of the name.
Salmonberry Studio Arts sounds neat...
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Beaver Fever Arts?
um...
Permafrost
Muskeg
I like Icefall, also.
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I'm not sure if "chronic unstoppable diarrhea" is exactly the mental image that I want people to get when they hear the name of my business, though...
Ooh, Permafrost Press sounds really cool!
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Studio -52?
The Graphic Moose? (ok, maybe not that one...)
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(Actually, it makes me picture the big frozen waterfall from the "Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" movie. It's probably nothing so dramatic, though.)
And Caribou Rose is a great name for a Gold Rush floozie. You're gonna have to write a story set then just so you can use the name.
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Actually, that's funny (and cool), because what inspired the name originally -- well, the word, before I knew it was a real word -- was the frozen waterfalls along the Seward Highway that I was admiring earlier this year. After a little Googling netted me its actual definition, I thought that it would apply beautifully to the overflow in the ravine. But the original inspiration was a frozen waterfall.
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Ice Vista Graphics
Evernight Graphics
Skydance Graphics
Arctic Dream Graphics
I do like Icefall as well though...