2008 Logo Contest - FINAL Voting [closed]

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:46 am

Professor Hunter wrote:
Scintilla wrote: Has everyone forgotten that the banners are SUPPOSED to be used for external promotion as well?
Isn't that kinda counter-intuitive to the "don't draw attention to ourselves"?

I'm talking about using the banners in places like other AMV-related sites and general animé fansites and our own personal pages and the like.

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:17 pm

Nice bunch of logos we've got this year. I'm particularly fond of this, this and this one. So pwetty.

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:19 pm

Just a random, weird question...anyone curious as to see what these look like "live?" I find it very hard to make a decision when they're all simply placed against a white background, completely out of their element.

Logos - particularly Web site logos - can look far worse/better than expected when placed in their page environments. Sizes, styles and colors can suddenly become very obvious bad/good choices.

Not sure if it would be too much work in the future to restructure the way we peruse the logos so we can see what they actually would look like on a page - maybe only during the finalist round? I'd feel much more comfortable with that, although I'm not sure how much of an effect - if any - that might have on the end voting.

YouTube · Post by **Rider4Z** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:56 pm

DriftRoot wrote:Just a random, weird question...anyone curious as to see what these look like "live?" I find it very hard to make a decision when they're all simply placed against a white background, completely out of their element.

Logos - particularly Web site logos - can look far worse/better than expected when placed in their page environments. Sizes, styles and colors can suddenly become very obvious bad/good choices.

Not sure if it would be too much work in the future to restructure the way we peruse the logos so we can see what they actually would look like on a page - maybe only during the finalist round? I'd feel much more comfortable with that, although I'm not sure how much of an effect - if any - that might have on the end voting.

that'd cause a lot more work for staff, but i think that is an excellent suggestion.

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:06 pm

I could do some informal mockups for the final round, sure. Donno if we can automate it for the nominations round though. I think you (DriftRoot) were the only one who used a transparent background on your preview image.

YouTube · Post by **Rider4Z** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:16 pm

no, there's a couple. i just tried a few out against the forum background.

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:45 pm

Rider4Z wrote: that'd cause a lot more work for staff, but i think that is an excellent suggestion.

Maybe next year something could be done where we have to submit two/thee preview images: one of the plain logo and the other one/two of a cropped mockup of the areas the logo will appear on the main site page and the forums with the logo inserted. Just provide the cropped file(s) for download as JPEGs or whatever. That way we'd still get the quick preview grid layout of all the logos when the voting starts, but if one wanted to check out a few of one's favorites before nominating them, one would get to see them in their natural environments, as it were. Then, in the final round, the logos could be put on informal mockups so we can see them as they would really appear on the site.

Maybe doing all this in the first round is overkill, but if nothing else it would probably force logo creators to be more realistic with their designs. They'd be able to see (one would hope) if a logo was completely oversized, undersized, off-color or overly detailed when they created their page-specific preview images. I test my logos against the site pages so I know they don't fail logistically, but I have a feeling a lot of other people don't (then again, I don't "do" Web design, so maybe they totally DO fail, hehe, I know one of them is pushing it).

jasper-isis wrote:I could do some informal mockups for the final round, sure. Donno if we can automate it for the nominations round though. I think you (DriftRoot) were the only one who used a transparent background on your preview image.

Really? I thought I properly flattened all of the little buggers. Sorry.

Or do you mean, the original logo file has transparency, because if that's the case then I'm definitely guilty. ^_^

Informal mockups would be absolutely fantastic for the final round. Wooo!!

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:15 pm

Rider4Z wrote:no, there's a couple. i just tried a few out against the forum background.

But the forum background is white!

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:39 am

jasper-isis wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:no, there's a couple. i just tried a few out against the forum background.
But the forum background is white!

But the main .org page isn't!

I guess it's time to bring back my Haruhi avatar for a bit until the new logo is decided on.
(Maybe I'll get off my lazy ass and re-animate it like the 2006 version.)

YouTube · Post by **Rider4Z** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:59 am

jasper-isis wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:no, there's a couple. i just tried a few out against the forum background.
But the forum background is white!

true, but when i tried copying some over to photoshop (mostly the gifs) it screwed up the coloring and left really jaggedy edges

as for transparency, i know my preview is a jpeg, but the original is transparent as well