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Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« Reply #135, on November 19th, 2010, 09:19 PM »
Okay guys, it just struck me... Are you kidding me or what? ::)
- The Star Wars references today... Chewie and all...
- "A new hope"...
- The "space shuttle" thing about the logo... May as well be considered as a Tie Fighter...
- And finally, I just remembered: Wedge Antilles.

Well, I really like the old SW movies, but I don't want people to think that Wedge is named after Wedge Antilles... I even have no friggin' idea what he looks like! lol.

What about something like this...?

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Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« Reply #136, on November 19th, 2010, 09:38 PM »
I've added it as the banner logo in our private area. What do you think? Compare with the public area's logo.

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Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« Reply #138, on November 19th, 2010, 10:04 PM »
Rather than 'A new hope' maybe 'A new way' ?

'A new hope' can suggest an uncertainty.

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Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« Reply #139, on November 19th, 2010, 10:22 PM »
I like your new logos, Bloc, a lot. I'll try to remember them. Can you provide me with a version with layers? I'm not very good at manipulating them (I'm using Paint Shop Pro 7, yeah I know it sucks... But I actually like it because it's not bloated for my use.)

Right now I've decided to stick with my current one because, well, I just spent my day on it and I'm giving meself a bit of leeway, ahah. Plus, I showed it to my gf and she said, "at last something nice!"
I offered "A new hope" and she screamed "Geek!" in a very bad way, lol. She much prefers "Simple math, really". She got the pun immediately and thought it made sense. I just called her to have a look at your logos, Bloc, but she's too tired to get off the bed so it'll have to wait.
Posted: November 19th, 2010, 10:20 PM

Can you try setting "simple math." and "really." next to the "d" 's upper branch, surrounding it? It would provide a better balance for the text I believe. Details like that matter. :)

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Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« Reply #140, on November 20th, 2010, 12:02 AM »
The current logo here looks good, as does Bloc's work above.

The 'A New Hope' was a combination of the SW theme and a tweak of one of the suggestions before it; the TIE fighter and Wedge Antilles were bits I hadn't thought of (as is, I was totally happy with 'A New Hope' before that was mentioned)
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Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« Reply #142, on November 21st, 2010, 11:44 AM »Last edited on November 25th, 2010, 11:39 PM by Nao/Gilles
Okay, I've made a quick mockup of Bloc's latest integrated into my design. (Look at the Blue banner pages to compare with Gold pages.)
I love it. It loses the "wedge put into a circle" effect, but it gains a new attitude -- the wedge, with its drop shadow, really looks like a spaceship now, boldly going where no BBS has gone before. (Now that's a slogan or I don't know anything about it :P)
This logo gets my approval.
It's a *bit* crowded compared to the Gold version, so I made the wedge text slightly less massive (shrunk horizontally by a few percents.)

As for the text above -- I slightly like it better when it was below, but it works nicely too.
The text could say either "Simple math. | Really." or "Choosing it is | Simple math."
Something like that...
But the shorter, the better.

Opinions welcome. Make sure to compare both versions by flipping through pages!
Posted: November 21st, 2010, 11:27 AM

Note for self: blue is (hue-saturation) 133-70, w is 30-122. Don't remember Gold.
:edit: Gold would be around 24-129.
Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« Reply #143, on November 21st, 2010, 12:03 PM »
Added this to the slogan list :P
"Boldly coding where no machine has gone before."

man/machine/machine code/SMF... Whatever you think is right ;)

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Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« Reply #147, on November 21st, 2010, 11:33 PM »
Quote from Bloc on November 21st, 2010, 12:44 PM
The different colored first letter I would have changed to all letters same color(it just looks too busy and give the logo a sense of being chopped up, "wedge" is short and one-syllable word - it should be seen as that too IMHO),
Well, I like having "edge" be separated from the "w"... Although originally it was due to the w representing the wedge itself... I've grown accustomed to it. Still, I only want it to slightly stand out, so it can be made as a shade of blue rather than gold, in the blue logo. Look at the current gold logo to get an idea.
I'm thinking of turning the logo text into an alpha transparent b&w text that can then safely be pasted onto the colored background, without requiring me to recolorize the logo.
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and make the logo colors stand out more..it seems to be almost sunk into the background, instead of springing out and saying "here i am!" .
Oh, that's precisely the point... It has so much information (the slogan, the logo picture, the logo text) that it has to be relatively integrated to its environment. It does create a contrast with the background.

@YogiBear> Which one?

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Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« Reply #149, on November 24th, 2010, 11:06 AM »
Okay so is it worth asking everyone which they prefer again? :P
Posted: November 22nd, 2010, 07:19 AM

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