Modern Branding Icon Design

I’m updating my company’s visual identity and need a single, stand-alone icon that immediately conveys the brand. The look should be firmly modern—clean geometry, confident negative space—while staying within a neutral palette of blacks, greys and subtle off-whites. Because this mark will appear on everything from stationery to digital avatars, it must scale flawlessly and read well in both color and pure monotone.

Here’s how I’d like to tackle it:

• Concept stage: 2–3 distinct sketches or rough vector ideas so I can choose a direction.
• Refinement: up to two rounds of tweaks on the selected concept (minor shape, proportion or tone adjustments).
• Final delivery: scalable vector file (AI or SVG), high-resolution PNGs on transparent backgrounds, and favicon-ready sizes.

Feel free to use Illustrator, Affinity Designer or another vector-based tool—just keep the paths clean and editable. I’ll provide the company name, a short creative brief and examples of brand personality once we start.