[Updated Brief] Logo & Standalone Icon for "Arcane Link" - A Cybersecurity Podcast

This is what Arcane Link was looking for in their logo design

Arcane Link is a cybersecurity podcast exploring the hidden side of the digital world - threat intelligence, breach post-mortems, attacker tradecraft, defender strategy, and the people behind both sides of the screen. The name is deliberate: "arcane" nods to cryptography (literally "hidden writing"), esoteric knowledge, and the secretive culture of infosec, while "link" speaks to networks, connections, chains of trust, and the conversations the show itself creates between guests and listeners.
We need a primary horizontal/stacked logo and a standalone mark that works in isolation. The standalone mark is the priority - it needs to function as a profile picture across Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and Instagram, and as a watermark in the corner of video episodes (so it must remain legible at roughly 60–80px square). The mark should ideally riff on a stylised letter "A," but we're open to a purely symbolic icon if the concept is strong enough to carry the brand witho… Read more