Design a stylized katakana/hiragana Logo

We need a stylized katakana/hiragana logo for our tiny company. We purchase old equipment and pull out the valuable pieces and thoroughly recycle the remainder. The name of the company will be Talan Incorporated or Talan Inc. It might help you to know that: The company is owned by a woman and two men The owners are good friends The owners are engineers The owners have a love of Japan and Japanese culture The owners summited Mount Fuji The logo should be easy to reproduce (one to two colors, not complicated) We would like to find a creative/clever way to incorporate スキル (Japanese for Skill) (please see the examples in the logos below) If cannot be stylized (i.e. too complicated), then we would prefer to create a logo Should feel like the logos in the link below, but not look completly Japanese (the logo will be used almost exclusively in the US) Examples of logos we love are: [login to view URL] [login to view URL] We hope to grow the company and this logo should last through that growth. Please provide examples of your work on your (if you have done this in the past, that is a BIG plus!). Please show us examples of logos that you have done in the past that are similar to the logos in the links above.