Logo for New Blog Site

Modern
Sophisticated

I don't have particular colors in mind and would be fine working through possibilities in the design process. Even black and white logo would be fine. It mostly depends on how the entire design comes together.

not sure

Just a few quick design ideas:

I'm not going to have the site name in the logo.

The logo is going to be of a pig, inspired by the character Napoleon from the book Animal Farm.

The pig should look like a mad scientist, standing on its hind legs, wearing goggles and holding test tubes. The pig appears to be pouring the contents of those test tubes into a flask.

I would like to incorporate the planet Earth into the flask somehow --- either the globe is inside the flask, or a globe forms the base of a Florence flask (a style of flask with a spherical body)

My initial thought is that I'd prefer a more simple, stylized logo than a detailed one. Some company logos that seemed to be sort of in line with what I have in mind are: Merrill Lynch and Barclay's Premier League.