Forum logo competition!

Michael, the LCD design only took about 1 hour to put together. It's nothing more than a few fonts and layer styles. As for where I find the time, being unemployed sort of helps with that one .

 

Decided to tweak last nights design a little bit as I wasn't happy with the button locations and the colour of the LCD. Plus I decided to chuck in a little bit of animation to make up for the rather simple design .

 

Michael, how about you narrow it down to you three faves, and then put it on a poll to decide the winner? Democracy in action!

 

Sounds like a plan Now I've got some thinking to do.....

Michael.

 

Here's one for you michael...

 

Struggling for members are we? I'd have thought that a forum specifically for overpriced lifestyle hifi and overrated 1970s loudspeakers would be rather boring though.

 

steve 7_v's gorilla (i can spell that one the other one has to many u's in it when i try but you know what i mean) ad's on e-bay were much better veeight. i think yours is a d- must try harder.
cheers


julian

 

BL21DE3 (and others)

You might want to have a look at this http://forums.overclockersclub.com/?showtopic=27892&st=0

The guys' offering a prize for a sig image. The few entries so far don't look upto much.

 

BL21DE3,
I hope these are seen as constructive criticisms of your latest (and by far your best) logo entry. I wouldn't bother saying any of this if I thought your design and idea wasn't very good to start with.
You need to take the buttons out. Unless they are live and actually *do* something they are going to be very confusing and people will tend to click on them. Making them live would be tricky in vBulletin, and anyway, your design will be much cleaner and slicker without them.
Also, make sure that the edge of your image blends *perfectly* with the colour scheme on the section of forum that surrounds it (I'm sure Michael will give you the exact shade of grey). This is very important, because for it to be professional looking you mustn't be able to "see the join".
I would take the Compact disc logo out (creates up too much dead space on the left anyway) and look to give the "window" a really slick, shaded 3D "lip". Do that and you have a worthy winner IMHO.

 

I thought the one with the spectrum analyser at the back was definately the best

 

Thanks for the comments guys. Joel no offence with the critisicms, it helps to have someone elses opinions. In fact I've attached a new version of the LCD logo taking some of your suggestions onboard. Let me know if this is more in line with what you envisiged.



P.S I would have replied sooner but I've been in Cambridge since yesterday for a job interview and only got back today around 18:00.

 

Best of luck with the job! Would it be using your graphics skills?

 

Philip, cheers. The interview was for a molecular biology/protein purification position with a research company, so unfortunately not much chance to use my graphics skills except maybe the odd presentation .

 

Well then freelance at night and during the weekends it is then!

 

Love the changes to the LCD logo BL21DE3 - I think we might have a winner allthough I'm still going to do a top 3 poll before the end of August...

Michael.

 

Will the winner (i.e. me) get a prize?

 

BL21DE3,
That looks a lot better, don't you agree?
I can visualise (sad, I know) your logo in the top left-hand corner now...
A couple more thoughts (you decide if they are worthwhile or not):
1) How about stripping the surround back to no more than a few pixels of the forum grey (ie forum colour) on each side
2) Zerogain is a little hard to read, but you do not want to mess with it because it is just right IMO. So why not add another line to the scrolling text, so it runs something like: Welcome to Zerogain.......Track 0: Your Handle to the Missing Groove
3) limit the animation to, say, a dozen passes

 

Cheers for the comments Joel. Here's a trimmed down and modified version with the animation running for 12 cycles before stopping. Let me know what you guys think.

 

BL21DE3, it is now excellent aesthetically, but IMHO way too big. It is currently 222k in size, and on a busy forum size costs both money and performance. Certain web browsers (especially IE, which unfortunately is by far the most common) are pretty poor at caching images which means any image can get downloaded many, many thousands of times a day. As a point of comparison the pfm logo is just 9.7k. Michael is obviously the one to ask about ZG size limits, but personally I'd want it well under 20k!

Tony.

 

Tony, I'm sure that logo will shrink down to around 20Kb with very little degradation, esp. if you remove the animation.

Michael.