Redesign the Bluelight logo - part II

[feelgoodhit]

i like this thread! i'm excited to see what creative entries come up. maybe i'll try whipping one up too.

 

[justsomeguy]

do it

 

[felix]

i think i still like this one the best:

 

[spork]

I think I like tambourine-man's very first one the best so far.

It reminds me of a frosted window and I've always been intrigued by what's behind frosted windows and the blue light just makes it look like somebody's having a good time in there! :D

 

[vibr8tor]

^ i like it too! reminds me of a winter sky

 

[Damien]

Something I cooked up just messing around. Obviously it wouldn't be that big but but maybe someone can improve upon it or something.

 

[spork]

^I like it, but I don't like how it says the URL so many times. Having the URL that often is too much like an advertisement than a logo to me. Maybe you could choose one or two spots for the URL in the logo (the center of the pill, maybe?) and then have most of the border of the pill to be something else?

This thread is making me want to learn photoshop more! I know I wouldn't be able to come up with anything near as great as every one here can but it definitely is making me see how photoshop can be a fun hobby to have and it's useful to know too. :D

 

[Damien]

^ word. Maybe like a simple HR mission statement or something.

 

[spork]

yeah, that'd be cool.

 

[amor fati]

 

[SA]

Question - what will the new board skin look like?

Nothing set in stone yet, chrissie. I know it's bad of me/us to kick this off without a base colour scheme platform and I apologise to everyone for this. I'm hoping to use this round as an "idea" round and we could always build on it and who knows, the colour scheme could very well take birth from the logo rather than the other way around. As someone suggested, however, the request is for all participants to please keep/save and make available their psd files. Thanks very much for the interest and I'd love to see some of your ideas.

No limits on number of entries at this point, everyone. The more ideas, the better.

Please keep the criticisms constructive. Thank you. If you'd like to offer some technical advice, please do so in a respectful, polite manner, offering pros and cons to your or the industry's "preferred" methodology. Thanks again.

Some really good ideas so far!

 

[pennywise]

I took a stab at something that communicates "Harm Reduction". It's a pretty complicated concept to communicate in a simple way, but I took a shot. I'm not sure I'm really happy with how it turned out, it looks kind of simplistic or jumbled or something, but I think you can get an idea of the direction I was going. It seemed a lot cooler in my mind. I don't know if I'll do anything else with this, my enthusiasm for this thing isn't what it once was...

Maybe if I made the surrounding images a bit more organized? IDK...

 

[ninjadanslarbretabar]

I don't like it, it looks too muck like the 'Toys "R" Us' logo.

yeah i thought the same

Drugs'R'Us

 

[pennywise]

Actually, I think I like this a little better:

:D

 

[justsomeguy]

looks sort of like a postcard pennywise

 

[alasdairm]

penny, some constructive criticism?

i really, really like this. it's like nothing else in the thread and it really seems to be a 'result of thinking outside the box'.

my tiny gripe is that, if you don't know it says 'bluelight' it's almost impossible to read as 'bluelight'. i think if you could make the 'bluelight' more recognisable or legible, it would be great.

thoughts?

alasdair

 

[pennywise]

my tiny gripe is that, if you don't know it says 'bluelight' it's almost impossible to read as 'bluelight'. i think if you could make the 'bluelight' more recognisable or legible, it would be great.

Yeah, I know it's difficult to read. Initially I made the letters much larger because they were designed to have the blue outline, and also to be much smaller. They needed to be thicker so that you could see the picture inside more clearly and to accommodate the outline, and the result is that when the outline is removed it becomes harder to read, as you observe.

As I said, I like the second one a lot more than the first one, and since I think what you say makes sense, I'll make another version that's easier to read in the latter format (without the outline).

I'm glad you like it, and thanks for the suggestion. I'll work on it tomorrow.

 

[kittymeow]

my entry:

i dont know how embed Flickr pics

 

[kittymeow]

Another go - I like this better:

 

[muzby]