LAST CALL! BladeForums.com Logo contest, win cash or prizes. Contest closes MIDNIGHT!

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Freak Show Scott said:
Just so every one knows, when you add a dropshadow, when you add a color gradient, when you add fine lines, or highlights, flares, or transperancies to your design it becomes much harder to "port" it across the different printing methods. Some Art that works for a magazines dosen't work well for silk screening. And pretty much all art works and looks good on a computer screen. In the graphics world "Create Once Use Many" never really worked out the way Bill Gates thought it would.

I want to give a small bit of advice. Look at the current logo (which Spark loves) and ask yourself if you design is "graphically" simpler than the old logo. I see lots of really great designs but many of them will be very hard to use in many types of printing. All bells and whistles of graphics programs are cool but try not to make your designs dependent on them.
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Well said.
A good exercise is to reduce your design to the size of a postage stamp and see if it still reads.
Then print it at that size.
If it works in B&W, it will with color.

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Exactly right. As I stated in the OP, the designs need to translate to 1 or 2 color formats very easily. Drop shadows, gradients, Web 2.0 style graphics, etc aren't going to work for this. A bunch of you have the right idea. A few just need to be pushed in the right direction. I'm very impressed by the creativity thus far.
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I was going to say this is like playing darts in the dark :)

Thank you for the guidance... I tried to copy and paste your comments with the mini renditions, but it didn't work.
I originally had the bowie knife between the lines of bold type, but the guard "fights" with the "R" in Forums. Keeping the integrity of the characters is paramount for legibility.
I'll do some more with a guard less knife... Kitchen? Hunter? My favorite... Guard less Coffin Handle Bowie?

Some great work here... Gareth, I'm looking at you...
More to come... fun stuff this is :D
 
I used my PJ Tomes Price Bowie... sort of a generic knife silhouette...
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i was thinking that alot of these designs would make excellent t-shirt designs too, you can play a little looser with the branding, doesnt necessarily have to reflect the regular logo, or you could incorporate the official BFC logo into the design, rather than a logo its a blade forums graphic

Gene
 
Here's my previous concept with some fine tuning to get away from "BF" problem with not having the domain (by integrating them into the words instead of just using the letters), and I switched the blade direction to give them a more natural look. The logo could also work with just the letters and bladeforums.com underneath it so people didn't confuse the domain.


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Wow, so many great ideas, congratulations and thanks for sharing! I'm a bit embarassed to add my humble contribution myself, but what the heck:


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The simulation keeping the current layout and colour scheme of the site:

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or, if you preffer the "Toxic Green":

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Thanks for the fun and Good luck to the participants!
 
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when will the winner be chosen? I have a few ideas and wanted to know if I have time to submit...
 
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