I am sure you can pencil something up and scan it just to get your basic idea in. Later someone could draw up your idea on the pc.
I am sure you can pencil something up and scan it just to get your basic idea in. Later someone could draw up your idea on the pc.
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I think it will look great on the center of the back of a tee shirt or on a front pocket of a shirt! I'd like also to add what a great design! Incorperating the different styles of GMC and Ford was truely creative!
It's good and I like it, but it don't do much for us MOPAR guys! :mad: :LOL:
Maybe he can incorperate this in the design!
http://www.cartype.com/images/page/mopar_logo_new.jpg
I like the little red X in the little box, but can't figure out how it will fit in with the logo. Maybe a little red X in a pentastar would work.:LOL: :LOL:
This one is rough, but it is another idea...
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...Lubhotrod2.png
I like that one too!!! Still no PentaStar, though.:( :LOL: :LOL:
I'm not sure why we got the little red x as when I posted it it was a blue Mopar M. Let's try again, unless it was edited as a trade mark thing.
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/c...r_logo_new.jpg
Don't ask me, I'm just a casual observer in this as I have no artistic talent what so ever;)Quote:
Originally Posted by renu36
Denny i like the idea of incorporating many auto emblems since this is a diverse site. More theme to what the site is all about no specific brand all muscle and rods alike .
You can enter as many as you like, as long as it's not the chicken scratch I would enter. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by renu36
Here's the thing. I really wish I could give guidance here, but I have no artistic vision for this sort of thing. If it looks nice, it looks nice, but don't look to me to tell you what that is before it's done. The stuff you guys have come up with is beyond my ability.Quote:
Originally Posted by DennyW
In the end, the members are going to vote.
I really like the phrase! Nice! I like how you are incorporating a car too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonehead
Denny I like your stuff, but how about a cleaner, i.e. less busy look, more open space, and instead of the penta gram star, how about the Mopar M. instead, incorperated into some slogan! Keep it up! Steve.
Thanks, I have a much cleaner version of this car, but I wanted the image to be a little vauge. I also did this one with some other cars as well, but so far I like that car the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brent Mills
To me a logo is a more simple design, like a badge that you can tell what it is from a distance, by the shape. (ie, Ford, Chevy, Dodge) No catch phrase, just a one word or emblem. A t-shirt design can go a step further, and have an image, a slogan, and even an emblem. Maybe we need two things here, An emblem and a T-shirt design.
Denny, You're the Man!!!:cool: :D
Bonehead - I really like the phrase and the car in your ideas - looks sweet!
We're not getting a huge response in this thread - Don't we have a bunch of creative types lurking out there? Here's another try.
Mike, a lot of us are not willing to give up hard efforts when the lunatics have taken over the assylum. (no reference to you)
Mike, that one with the reflection has a great look.
Denny, i was thinking along the same lines as you on that last one you did. Another twist to that design could be to put members cars on there, you have a t that looks like don`s already.
Brent, another dumb Question,WHY??
I like the one we have,it says it all,it's you,our club...
if I was goimg to change anything, I would use great information
instead of great fun, and maybe put a hot chick by the hotrod,
chicks and hot rods go together... tell you what,why don't you run
your same logo as one of my ideas..........
I think you will run into trademark problems with the car makers logo's and the hotwheels logo.Quote:
Originally Posted by DennyW
Just a little history on the current logo. When the site first came online Brent slapped together something just to have, well, something. One of the earlier members had some artsy skill and started playing around with some ideas from whence the Chrome looking "Club" and the flame within the "Hot Rod" evolved. Another suggestion was added with the profile of the chopped coupe, then the driver was later added with the arm out the window "profilin' " look. The "Great....." verbage was a carryover from Brent's original logo. It's remained pretty much intact for roughly 6 years in it's current form.
Now some comments on logo design without trying to squelch any contributions, afterall, we're tossing out ideas here to see what sticks and it all contributes to the inspirational flow. The essence of logo identification is quick and ready recognition. As such, the most effective logos are simple yet stylish. They have an instant recognition factor, think Nike swoosh, Coca-Cola script, Ford blue oval and distinctive script, Chevy bowtie, and so on. Sometimes it's expanded with some secondary descriptor, again Coca-Cola subtitled with "It's the real thing". The temptation when doing a logo is trying to be all things to all people. The more you focus on creating the logo to "hit as many bases as possible" the more jumbled it becomes............and in my opinion, less attractive and functional. In advertising this is an old pitfall with billboards (and not surprisingly in the internet a homepage logo is a good comparative). The amatuer designers of billboards would try to pack in as much info as possible. That works fine when you're at the design board and have time to read everything you've stuffed on the board. However, the target audience has less than 7 seconds to read what you've got for your message. The savvy designers learned to be brief and pointed in their message. While we're not a billboard on the highway, the concept is still the same. If you try to be all things to all people you end up being nothing to everyone.
Now we're not trying to sell anything here, so our lives don't depend on the effectiveness of our message, but I think some of the principles apply. When someone stumbles into the site, a ready recognition of what we're about should be quickly and easily apparent to them. If we move onto the next phase of perhaps making up hats/shirts/jackets/whatever, then we want something that will be easily distinguished at a glance, perhaps from a reasonable distance, so that folks who've agreed to meet at an event but don't know each other by sight, can easily identify the logo rather than something that may resemble a map of the new world. JMHO
So let the ideas continue to flow.
Good info Bob....
The logo design should also consider the three reproduction methods that could be used (get your mind out of the gutter!).....print media such as a web page, silkscreening such as on a t-shirt or jacket, and embrodiery like on a hat or polo shirt. Print media can reproduce any number of colors, any resolution, etc without a problem. Silkscreening can reproduce most detail but each color requires a stencil to be burned. Silkscreening on hats looks cheap...hats with adjust straps in back look cheap also. Embrodiery is the least resolution friendly....the logo is usually small anyway (think hat logo) and the stitching coarseness makes the detail even worse. Therefore, designs with small writing, tiny detail, etc are difficult to reproduce.
In my opinion, a good logo should be stylized, have minimal text, and convey the message that CHR is associated with hotrods (kinda what Bob said). Unless the wearer has a large chest and is female, the viewer shouldnt have to get close and spend time analyzing some small print!
Mike in Tucson
I have to remember that one. "hey man, I was just reading her shirt"**)Quote:
Originally Posted by robot
I still like this one the best, clean, easy to recognise!Quote:
Originally Posted by signshop
Neat stuff...Don't think I've seen anything yet that I like as well as the original...... Plain and simple, nobody takes time to read all the stuff on them anyhow....
Like Uncle Bob said, plain and simple, easily recognizable!!!!!
hey i think you got it denny put a open wrench under it ??
I have another design that I did on the computer, but now I can not get it to post. I guess I should just stick to pen and pencil.
Pablo
OK got the 2nd one to post.
i like both of those alot elpablo. you guys on this site are so talented.
Way to go Pablo!
Nice attitude....one quick note.......piston skirts are 90 degrees off, they're not supposed to align with the wrist pin.I know it sounds picky but it looks weird. Good direction though.
You will find in general it does not matter until the owner of the 'copyright' raises a stink. If I own the 'copyright' I will let it go until there is much $$ at stake or too much good or bad notoriety. It's the American way. **) :LOL:
At that point it's lawyers, guns, and money ................... :eek:
Kitz
denny i like that but did you have to use a ford cam ?? :LOL: i think that looks great
Hmmmm. Hot Rodding is a whole lot more then just pistons and cams....... What about all the chassis, suspension, tin bending, paint, and all the other stuff that goes into a car??????
:LOL: :LOL: :LOL: But then I still like the original one best anyhow!!!!!!!
I like Denny's thing with the cam and pistons----Maybe could somehow be used to identify the forum dealing with engines?????? Don't know how, I'm not a computer guy or an artist!!!! On a good day I can draw stick people---if I use a ruler and a compass!!!!!!!:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
well hear is mine looking to go heads up with dons T:LOL:
Denny or signshop,I like both of your ideas,I like the one with the bright lights the only change would be the grille I would of used a customized hotrod grille.
and Denny I the last with the faded pictuer of the header on it,can you put a
faded picture of the frt. end of a customeized 50 merc. with a desoto grill
like the old days, as far as words..(yesterday toys for todays boyz) or your owns words would be fine, just a thought,beings you guys are good with computers and I am not,,thanks.**)
Great ideas guys. I like most of the designs but I think I am with Dave....I really like the original best. Maybe some changes in color or the font style for "Club Hotrod" might liven it up a bit. Denny, could you try a few ideas based on the original?
How about something with the original design that has this nice plastic, 3d look that mike came up with. It's a nice insignia!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by signshop