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

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
 
YAY I finally finished :]
speedsolvinglogo.png


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 :D
I remembered to save too! :D
 
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.
 
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CharlesOBlack said:
yah, the perspective is wrong. Maybe the program you used has some options you might need to change to fix that.
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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.
 
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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?
 
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PatrickJameson said:
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.
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Thanks, couldn't resist ... sketchup makes it so easy to produce videos.

And yes, I've also corrected the color scheme.

guz.
 
Actually meh, I don't know if I'd like that not cut off. Dunno. If you could do it so I could see that'd be nice.

If you didn't see my last edit:


PatrickJameson said:
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?
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Grid cut on left.
I've chosen what seemed to me the best place to cut it.

I've changed the height of the banner in the mock up page to 100px. That's close to the one in use now.

The image I produced is actually big. I should produce one with the correct dimensions 'cause browsers are not good at scaling images ... and the grid may not be shown very well, but I think it gives the idea.

The grid, I think, is actually a delicate point of this banner because those thin lines are very sensible to any variation ...

New Mock Up

guzman.
 
guzman said:
Grid cut on left.
I've chosen what seemed to me the best place to cut it.

I've changed the height of the banner in the mock up page to 100px. That's close to the one in use now.

The image I produced is actually big. I should produce one with the correct dimensions 'cause browsers are not good at scaling images ... and the grid may not be shown very well, but I think it gives the idea.

The grid, I think, is actually a delicate point of this banner because those thin lines are very sensible to any variation ...

New Mock Up

guzman.
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looks really really nice. I hope pjk goes with this one.
 
PatrickJameson said:
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?
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The banner is for the new design, so the colors don't necessarily need to match up with this current design. We can always slightly alter the colors once we have a good design.

By the way, you don't have to have "Speedsolving the Rubik's cube and other puzzles". The slogan is "All Puzzles. All the time", but be creative. If you can include speedsolving.com on it, that would be a bonus.

So far, so good.
 
@guzman, I like this one too:
http://www.guzman.it/temi/cube/speedsolving-banner/speedsolving08b-1276.gif

Making the "speedsolving.com" stand out is a good idea. Nice work :tu

EDIT: Just one small point. The 'SS' on the cube isn't as obvious with the side turned the way it is. Would it be possible to tweak the angles a bit to make the green 'S' stand out a bit better?
 
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@Cride5:
thank you. Yes, you're right about the 'SS' on the cube not being obvious with the side turned the way it is. I also thought about that.
The problem is that even with a little rotation the green S doesn't stand out much (if you are interested I have the images) and moreover, I think, if the face has a little rotation (or none) it is less attractive. So I couldn't find a better solution than just letting the red S stand out.
 
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