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« Reply #300, on July 11th, 2011, 02:59 AM »
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Well, if you're not interested I shall not put work into a Gri Dic.
The problem with Gri is that he insists on using his terminology for things instead of anything else, and if you don't like his ideas, you're doomed to being trolled followed by being ignored, at least that's my take on it.

It might be worth reposting it in a form the rest of us can understand because I remember being intrigued once I got past the first layer of monkeyisms, but that I couldn't really make more sense of it than that. If nothing else, it'll make some sense out of it...
Ya, making sense of Gri took a lot of work, which is why I called it "decoding". He relies heavily on metaphors, but I'm a person who got straight As in English, Lit. English isn't Gri's first language, and that's part of the difficulty. His reliance on verbal imagery is another part of the difficulty. He also wants some sort of ownership over trackback/backlink coding and so calls it Grivitation...sorta. His interest in Grivitation is also to solve the problem of preserving lines of discussion against the possibility/probability of a given forum going dark, taking the conversation with it (he's hell bent on discussion distribution across a number of forums and keeping the discussions sorted out by author).

There's more to Gri than that, but that's Gri in a nutshell, and insofar as he's quite fluent in SMF coding, I'm interested in the trackback/backlink mods he likes to explore.  Don't worry, he's busy over on my board so I don't think he'll be over to pester you guys. (keeping fingers crossed). If he wants to try out a bit of code, I'm more happy to give it a shot than youse guys have been, so...well...he's tame (for now). A "thank you" would be nice.  :lol:
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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #301, on July 30th, 2011, 01:02 AM »
Okay... I'm not giving up on the logo.

How about something like... THIS?
It's a pure mockup (ahah, shadow is at the top because I just rotated the ship), done in five minutes. Just trying to get the feel of it.
(I did spend about an hour trying to get a good one though. It's not something I just threw in for a quick test. The logo is one of my obsessions in Wedge.)

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #302, on July 30th, 2011, 01:05 AM »
I know Illustrator and I'm having a hard time trying to beat the current one.

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« Reply #303, on July 30th, 2011, 01:08 AM »
It's such a busy logo. Feels like 10 persons wanted to out their signature on it. Heck it's nearly what happened actually.

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #304, on July 30th, 2011, 02:51 AM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on July 30th, 2011, 01:02 AM
Okay... I'm not giving up on the logo.

How about something like... THIS?
It's a pure mockup (ahah, shadow is at the top because I just rotated the ship), done in five minutes. Just trying to get the feel of it.
(I did spend about an hour trying to get a good one though. It's not something I just threw in for a quick test. The logo is one of my obsessions in Wedge.)
At first I said "Ooh!" but then thought the shadow isn't in the right spot... maybe move it more to the right following the light source, if you know what I mean.
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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #305, on July 30th, 2011, 08:09 AM »
I said it's a mockup. If Bloc could provide us with a large version of his ship without a shadow...

So do you like the idea or not?

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #307, on July 30th, 2011, 09:36 AM »
Looks nice to me

Stick a fork in it SMF

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #308, on July 30th, 2011, 09:51 AM »
Yeah, I like that one too (though, interestingly I didn't actually notice the shadow was out of place to start with...)
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« Reply #309, on July 30th, 2011, 12:44 PM »
Great!
Can I consider we can start doing a logo using that direction? :)

I'm thinking of trying out new software, maybe I'm holding back my 'creativity' by sticking to Paint Shop Pro 7. I don't know which would be best for logo creation (and an easy UI) between the 'big boys' out there like Adobe's stuff and the rest...

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #310, on July 30th, 2011, 01:44 PM »
Paint Shop Pro, well like Adobe Photoshop it's not really suitable for Illustration, it's more suited to photo editing.  Use either Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator they are suitable for illustrations including logo creation.

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Posted: July 30th, 2011, 12:58 PM

Here my remastered attempt of Nao recent work.

Edit: My Attachment got screwed up, didn't preserve the alpha channel.

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #311, on July 30th, 2011, 01:49 PM »
Wow, niiice!
How did you guess the font? (it's a win7 default but still ;))
Posted: July 30th, 2011, 01:47 PM

Btw my version was bigger too, I just reduced it here for polling purposes. But I'm not as good with drawing tools apparently ;)

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #312, on July 30th, 2011, 02:17 PM »Last edited on July 30th, 2011, 02:39 PM by CJ Jackson
Thanks. It's was an educated guess. in other threads I heard you talk about the fonts on the Windows 8 touch screen interface and you mentioned Segoe UI Light!

Adobe Illustrator has steep learning curve, one you get used to it, it's actually a very easy drawing tool to use.  All it took was two triangles and gradient at different angles and the drop shadow effect for the last 3 letter of wedge.

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #313, on July 30th, 2011, 03:52 PM »
Very smart Eheh.

Could you attach a zipped version of your original file? Thanks!

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #314, on July 30th, 2011, 04:09 PM »
Sure, "wedge.ai" is the original file (inside the zip).

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