Want to design the main Speedsolving.com logo/banner?

[Samania]

PLATYPUS POOP. 2 hours into making one and gimp crashes. Time to start over. >:|

Edit: sorry, I'm over exaggerating this a bit. I was only 1 hour and a half into making one ;D

[SixSidedCube]

Update:

1: changed green and orange
2: added "the"
3: softened edges, at least I hope so; is it better ?

This looks very nice! I vote this one!

[Samania]

YAY I finally finished :]


I made this entirely out of fun. I usually don't make logos, but any suggestions to improve it up a bit?

I liek colours, so I put in a bunch of colours
I remembered to save too!

[guzman]

I like the colored smoke.

Suggestions:
- the style of the writing "Speedsolving the" is too straight compared to the rest of the writing.
- the & symbol is too big and too visibile
- "Other Puzzle" should be curvy too I think
- I don't like that speedsolving.com goes over the cube
- normally in a banner the logo (the cube in this case) stays on the left
'cause that's the first thing you see and you look for, then comes the motto.

guzman.

[CharlesOBlack]

Update:

1: changed green and orange
2: added "the"
3: softened edges, at least I hope so; is it better ?

3d looks totally messed up there. Sorry :\

[guzman]

3d looks totally messed up there. Sorry :\

What do you mean?
It's not me that made the 3D perspective,
it's computer generated,
you can check the 3D model here

[CharlesOBlack]

3d looks totally messed up there. Sorry :\

What do you mean?
It's not me that made the 3D perspective,
it's computer generated,
you can check the 3D model here

yah, the perspective is wrong. Maybe the program you used has some options you might need to change to fix that.

[guzman]

yah, the perspective is wrong. Maybe the program you used has some options you might need to change to fix that.

The perspective is not wrong (I doubt that Sketchup can make mistakes calculating perspectives). The fact is that the cube is not flat on the ground and this may 'cause a difficulty for us to understand the image. In that case ... my bad.

[guzman]

Update 2:
I've been experimenting ...

1: I made the stickers bigger so that the cube is more visibile and less cluttered and I made the background transparent.

2: I made two variations:
banner 1: More colorful

banner 2: fits better with the current colors of the forum

3: You can see them in the forum page:
Banner 1 in forum page
Banner 2 in forum page

4: I had some fun making this video:



hope you enjoyed it.

guzman.

[PatrickJameson]

Nice video :P.

I think I like the one that 'fits better with the forum colors' more than the other one. The other one also doesn't have the standard color scheme :P.

Also I think it may be a bit big on the mock-up forum. But that can be changed later.

Edit: If you change the height to 550 on the mock-up page I think that's good. It's closer to the height that the logo is on the forum now.

Also on the left the background grid cuts off. Can you make it so it looks like the right side somehow?