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New logo design contest
Hello all,
We're launch a competition to find a new logo for TalkGraphics. This comes because we are now on vBulletin 4, and will be having a new skin soon.
It is open to all, including moderators, and you can enter as many times as you wish.
Here are the main requirements:
- It should work well as a GIF or PNG, in small as well as large. So nothing too 'fussy'.
- It should complement our upcoming skin: http://www.completevb.com/demovb4/support?styleid=5 (please not that while this is the chosen skin, we may still tweak colours and icons of the skin).
- It is best to make something adaptable, i.e. will it work in our forum, but then also (for example) in a newsletter or on a different colour background?
- You agree to assign the copyright to TalkGraphics.com, for all future use as required.
The winners will be shortlisted then a winner chosen by Xara staff members.
There is a $100 prize for the winner - either of a Xara/Magix product, or as store credit for a future product release.
Please just post away in this thread and have fun! If you'd prefer to keep your design private, you can PM it to me for consideration.
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AntonyF
(please not that while this is the chosen skin, we may still tweak colours and icons of the skin).
Well then it may no longer be the skin that was voted for! So the point of the poll was what, exactly?
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It should complement our upcoming skin
Well yes of course it should, so I really think you should show the tweaked colours and icons before asking for Logo designs as the theme colours are a fairly important logo design consideration.
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That skin is seriously garish.
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I agree. Perhaps we should have a new Poll to decide if the winning skin is actually used? >:)
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Sledger, stop whining. No one said the skin would be implemented 100% as is - in fact I even said somewhere that we'd tweak some elements. If you don't want to contribute, don't. So please move on.
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Antony, you should be ashamed of how you speak to people on these boards. You set a very poor example indeed, as a moderator and as a representative of Xara.
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Antony if you are not open to feedback, questions and suggestions or playful quips, please also make this 100% clear.
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C'mon already. It is not a case of being or not being open to criticism. It is a matter of the same kind of tone in response that previously would have gotten members banned.
Feel free the criticize. But do it in a positive manner.
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I'm not sure it's fair to ask people to produce a logo that matches the skin when the colours will change. It's a bizarre notion.
I haven't seen the poll, but I would expect that if I was asked to contribute an opinion from a set of choices that the chosen choice would either be the poll winner or the result of feedback from the poll.
I think Steve's point was reasonable and not offensive.
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I have to agree with Steve and Paul on this one. If we knew what colours the boards will actually be it will make designing a logo much easier. Gary you should be well aquainted with Steve's quirky ( and at times down right evil ;))) sense of humour. Antony hasn't spent much time yet interacting with other members on the forums and perhaps didn't realize that Steve was making a joke.
I think everyone needs to step back a bit and draw some pictures :D
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Ok here is my idea. I went with something similar to the current logo even using the speech bubble with the punctuation because I have to wonder why we need a new logo? and is it wise to change the branding after such a long time? I have created my logo using named colours so colour changes can be done easily.
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angelize
... Antony hasn't spent much time yet interacting with other members on the forums and perhaps didn't realize that Steve was making a joke...
Frances, Antony was Administrator of Talkgraphics for several years.
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Nice logo angelize!
In the absence of any inspiration whatsoever here is something totally uninspirational but at least it keeps the thread alive!
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Soquili
Frances, Antony was Administrator of Talkgraphics for several years.
and he was so when the current logo was put out to competition:
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...-have-a-winner!
2006 - not that long ago for some of us ;)
oh - and I agree with Gary.... :D
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Here is another version of my logo entry, again keeping keeping the speech bubble but this time I've gone with a different font. I have also done a version that includes Parahandy's Car.
For those of you who don't know Parahandy (Norman Spencer) was a member here who inspired many and who was sadly taken from us in 2008. Shortly after Steve added the car to the TG logo as a tribute. I think I found the right car, there were so many in the Parahandy picture parade
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Really nice to see Normans car. I've missed it. I don't know why it went.
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Might I suggest that instead of publishing every design that you come up with, that you submit your best design or if you cannot decide, designs.
If my earlier remarks were unbecoming of a moderator, I submit my most humble apologies.
Frank - You are listening to the voices again? :)
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Hi Gary, how can I PM a design? My name says 'no PMs'. Have I clicked something wrong somewhere?
Amaliss
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Thanks to the entries so far.
For those worried about changes to the skin, I said we may tweak it. A good logo is a good logo. We aren't going to say "well, this bar on the forums is blue, but the logo has yellow, so it's out". The logo will stand for itself, and be good in any scenario. I think true designers here will know their work will speak for itself. Worst case scenario we could discuss colour tweaks if we had to.
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Does it make sense to hold off on the new skin until you pick a design? The colors in the winning design might suggest the colors for the skin!
Amaliss - I think you can post your comments in this thread. My point was instead of posting every idea we come up with, that we should wait and post our best design or designs if there are more than one.
The last time there was a logo contest, some people posted ten difference variations of the same design and the thread got very cluttered.
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The skin and logo will be implemented together, so that they can influence each other.
Gary, the only clutter in this thread is all this chatter. To be honest, I am happy for people to post as many variants of a logo that they want. At the end, we can review them all - it worked fine last time.
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"the only clutter in this thread is all this chatter" .. that's what community is about. Without the chatter this place would be sterile.
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Attachment 77148Has anyone submitted a design for this as yet?
The trick I found is to not look at the winning skin for the site and plough on in total ignorance so heres my little effort to get things rolling, thats if there aren't any others posted elsewhere.
Derek
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I like the "talk" though it overpowers the graphics a bit. Nice idea.
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masque
Has anyone submitted a design for this as yet?
LOL
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beretgascon
LOL
Ok, I admit it. My usual through research consisted of looking at the front page, skipping to the last and forgetting to look in the middle.
No slight intended.
Derek
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Well, Why not try.
Here is my idea.
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Playing around with a speech bubble. :)
Using a png with alpha can fit any new colour scheme. ;))
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Maybe I missed it somewhere, but what is the deadline for logo submission?
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I'm absolutely no good at this, but here's mine
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Another idea again with and without the car
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The trick I found is to not look at the winning skin for the site and plough on in total ignorance ...
Derek
I like that Derek - it's not 'fussy' and it looks good across a range of color hues and in greyscale too - I think you are being modest :cool:
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Here's my offering...and I tried to use those colours as best I could. >:)
Michele
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I am going to post 8 designs four at a time.
I added my designs over the favorite skin in the voting to show how the logo will integrate with the skins.
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