I know that this is a little on the cheesy side.  A friend of mine asked me to help create a team name and logo for his softball team.  After brainstorming for awhile, I came up with about 8 names that I felt were unique and original.  One of the names was Dogblade—which I’m partial to, and I don’t really know why.  So I played around in Illustrator until I came up with this image.  I kept in mind while designing it that if the logo were to actually be used, it would have to be designed in a way that is screen print-ready.  So the outcome is this clean cut vector image.  The number of layers it would need to be broken down into would depend on how many colors are applied.