Thread: Can you design a CHR logo? $100 says you can! Submit it here.

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Neat Denny!

I like all the rods gathering at the one place none of them can out run.

Denny that last one is a keeper. Great idea. But one problem .....can't find my truck!

soon as this is settled send me a printable version i can put into a site flyer and i will distribute them to many thousands of cars and people i will see this year .. our local site has ended and folks are still hungry for somewhere to serf ..this site can really take off this year if we feed it a little

Originally Posted by YNOT

I hope I'm not too late to get in on this. I've got 17+ years of experience in this field PLUS I'm a car fanatic so I thought I'd throw a couple ideas into the ring here...



Any thoughts?

Just thought I'd make one more comment here with my logos. These were created in Adobe Illustrator...100% 'vector' art so these can be scaled to any size you can imagine without any loss of quality. Spot colors can also be added for more impact but if a logo can't work well in black and white it is not going to work well when color is added. Just some simple, standard logo design rules.

Keep in mind, any of these 'rasterized' images created in Photoshop will not be well-suited for scaling up to T-shirt size, not to mention many of these would have to be printed in 4-color process which is much more expensive than a vector logo created in 'spot colors'. For example, take an avatar (or any small image) off of this site and try to blow it up to T-shirt size on your printer...it'll get 'grainy' and fuzzy rendering it useless unless it's creted in vector or created as a raster at it's original intended size.

Just thought I'd share some of my 17+ years of graphic design knowledge here...hope you find it helpful.

Please note...I'm by no means trying to 'bash' anyone here. There are a lot of people trying to pitch in some ideas...some of which are pretty good. I'm just preparing you before a design is chosen that won't work well when printed. If one of these 'rasterized' designs are chosen, it might be necessary to have it re-created in the proper software to allow it to be used properly.

Thanks!
Tony

Denny, if you win would please shave your arms maybe the Tshirt
will fit hey! you have to add my wagon on there or at least my
47 fleetline,, cool work bud !!

Denny thanks for including the truck. If Brent likes this design, we may have to bribe you to get our cars in the lead position!

Tomorrow is supposed to be the end of submissions and the beginning of judgement day/week/whatever time frame Brent specifies. On page 6 I laid out some of my thoughts on the process and would like to expand on that a little as well as giving a preliminary vote of sorts.

We've had quite a few interesting submissions and some folks obviously have spent some time and talent coming up with ideas. And I think it important that we keep in mind what some of the technically experienced folks have had to say about possible future production contraints/factors. While there are some of the submissions I like as art, they don't fit what would be effective as a logo. They would make great poster art, maybe even an elaborate T-shirt design, but not a logo. If we want poster art, let's create a place to display it, but let's not try to "force" it as a logo.

I also think Brent should consider making it easier for us to compare for voting purposes. I just spent a while viewing the dozen pages and quite frankly it's a chore to jump back and forth to compare. Some of the folks have put up multiple choices and I find myself jumping back and forth trying to see which of their own designs they may like best. What I would like to see is all the designs compiled on one page (if that's possible) so that it's easier to compare side by side. In order to make that process easier, perhaps the submitting artists could self edit and withdraw any of their own submissions that they no longer consider their best effort to contract the field.

Personally, applying my own standards, I'm not sure we really need to change from the current logo, with the possible exception of revising the "Great....." subtitles. If I HAD to choose from the new ones I would have to say I like Signshop's first submission as clean, artsy, and concise. It is stylish without adding too many elements of narrow definition. It would work on both a shirt and hat. Along those same lines, the orange flame design from bonehead has real punch! It wastes no time or space getting to the point. We're hot, and here's our address. Just about perfect for a hat logo especially. Actually I can also see a t shirt with a good sized version of Signshop's logo on the back, and boneheads logo in smaller size on the upper chest (sort of like the name above a pocket). Alternatively, the yellow deuce roadster version from pairodice hits my traditional tendency, is nicely artsy without being too busy, but does imply more of a single version of hot rodness than is represented by the membership. I'd probably drop the "The original......." reference since it's not really accurate, and it's removal would simplify the design for hat/shirt production.

JMHO.

This server keeps crashing right as I upload. It is beginning to get irritating.

Bob, I agree the "logo" should be simple and that's what this started as.

However it has evolved into cool art project/idea sharing that has designs that would be perfect for tee-shirts. If it's the hundred bucks, give that for the logo. I'll personally pitch in $10 towards the best tee shirt design from the above work. While most companies have a distinct logo, they also use multiple artwork designs on the back of tee shirts, logo on front pocket or left front pocket area on a no pocket tee shirt.
The cool stuff that is here should be used for this purpose I feel. Thanks, Steve

I am having the same problems with server.......

I just wanted to add that all of the work I did, as well as the majority of the others can be reworked. My posts were just for the basic idea. I think I put most on here as a jpg, which I don't use for my shirts.
And I agree that there are great designs here for shirts, and for logos. Good job everybody.

One more

In regards to the voting, I'm happy to have all my designs counted as a single entry, because they are basically the same. Also, it is possible for me to recreate my designs in a much higher resolution, suitable for T shirts etc, if need be, not that I'm expecting there will be a need.

Originally Posted by DennyW

I respectfully with draw.

Denny I don't know what you mean buy this but you think that I
will accept your with draw, your nuts, you are one of the that has some of the best ideas here, we are all adults here so we should act as such, you for one help me and others in putting our adds in,we were asked to put in our ideas and we did ,I too agree that signshop had a good one, I liked the one with the headlights which I could not find again, but this my opinion only, the grille looks like a jeep grille not a hotrod,that 's why I went back to try to find it again but was unable,so sorry amigo.. but I am putting you back in the contest,remember guys Brent said he was going to let us vote, so if we like the original one,(vote) case closed if there's one thing I've learned in life,
thats never cheat to win,but give it all you have,if I lose I will accept your victory with honor,try harder next time..

I Vote For Denny W COOL

DennyW's anonomous entry is cool - but I like blue a lot.

Is politics allowed -

"If my submission is chosen, I will not accept any money for personal gain.
Rather I will make a donation to the Clubhotrod hardware support fund."



Seriously - BobP had some good comments about logos vs poster art and echoed the technical restrictions of reproduction and costs associated with that effort. As far as multiple entries - usually one submission per person is the norm for contests like this.

Ok, I'm starting the process of pulling out all of the primary images and then we'll start a poll. It might take me a night or two to pull this stuff together.