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

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Here is my entry. Not sure if I'll do another or not.


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Update: added a version without the .com
 
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I was just noticing that I forgot the "s" on forums in my last design, haha. Doh. :rolleyes: :D
 
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EDIT: Blue shadow behind blade:

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Different lower font:

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Spark said:
You guys are familiar with the traditional BladeForums logo:
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We've had this for around 14 years . . . it's pretty complicated and causes issues when I try to use it in other projects.

With that in mind, I'm opening up the floor for submissions for a new logo for the site. Simple is better than complex, this logo will be used on tshirts, engraving, and various other projects

With that in mind, let the contest begin.
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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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tap78 said:
Hi all :) Maybe something like this...
new refreshed version of current logo - modified to much will not be associated with that forum....

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tap78 said:
Thanks :) ... and vice versa.

and some more my propositions.... I hope SPARK will like it :)

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These are some of my personal favs. Very professionally done. You do this for a living?
 
The Warrior said:
I think he's singling me out, haha. :D
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LOL, Not at all. But I have to admit while your last design is great it would be hard to print on a golf ball or engrave on a forum knife blade.

Just Sayin

And, course I have no inside knowlage of Sparks requirements for selection. I could be compleaty wrong.
 
I accidentally screwed my last one up. I merged visible layers, and desaturated, to see what it would look like. When I exited, I accidentally hit save, losing all my individual layers, haha. Oh well, life goes on.
 
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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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.
 
Spark said:
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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For the ones you like do you have critiques or things you'd like to see changed?
Thanks :)
 
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