Banners and Logos - Can You Help?

[Sarah Butler]

Hi there everyone!

I was talking to Bea today about finally getting that banner thing changed to be correct, and she and I came up with a new idea... a better idea, if we do say so ourselves!

Are there any of you out there who are good with MS Paint... or maybe something a little more sophisticated? What this project really needs is a logo. Something that the project can associate itself with. And preferably a banner that matches it, for the forum.

Cathy thought that it'd be nice for all of you involved with the project to get a badge with the logo on. As a thank you for being involved, you know? So, if you guys come up with a logo, we'll give you free badges. Deal?

You can post your logo designs in here over the weekend (or PM them to me if you're shy). Next week I'll put up a voting thread for you all to pick your favourite.

Oh, and do invite your friends if they like designing and want a free badge!

Any questions, ask. Now get to designing!

[liaveekeli]

Ok, so I've whipped up a couple...I thought about them for the 'banner' category. They're not incredibly fancy, as I'm not terribly gifted with photo manipulation, but I thought I'd throw them out here.







The first one is probably my personal favourite I made them using images posted here and on the Avoncroft Facebook page. I'm not exactly sure how copyright applies to these, so I'll just say that no copyright infringement is intended in any way...

Oh, and as you can see there are two 'artefact' and one 'artifact' up there.

[BuzyBea]

I like them!

Are you going to have a go at the logo too? I scribbled down an idea on a napkin in Starbucks yesterday, but then I left it behind... that was fail. If anyone was in Starbucks in the Bull Ring yesterday and happened to find it...? No, I thought not. lol

But I'm sure what you guys come up with will be better than my napkin scrawl anyway!

[liaveekeli]

I don't think so...I'm not that good with manipulating pics, and even if I was I don't have any ideas for the logo. But hopefully someone else will come up with something cool!

[CathCat]

I'm surprised more people aren't motivated by the idea of free badges! I think the museum might even be willing to post them out to people who can't get to the museum to collect them? I'm sure that's what Sarah said to me.

Bea, honey, I keep telling you to get a notebook. lol

[shrtyscott3]

My attempt at making a banner.

PS: Wingdings

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[CathCat]

I like it! Is that like a code in the bottom right? Awesome! I'll just go try figure it out...

[shrtyscott3]

Haha, I'll take another stab at it when I get home. I have GIMP downloaded on my PC. Hopefully that attempt will be better.

[CathCat]

Yay! Can't wait to see.

And I figured the code out!

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AnnaD says
“hi future”

That's really clever!

[mravoncroft]

Cath, you beat me to it. I'd translated but was making my own banner in response. It's probably a bit large (I'm not good with things like file sizes) but it has a return appropriate message.

[mravoncroft]

[img src="[/img]http://s974.photobucket.com/albums/ae226/MrAvoncroft/?action=view¤t=ASA.jpg&t=1280774353977"]

Oh dear, second attempt - think I've mistakenly cropped the edge as well

[mravoncroft]

$£!@****ZX!!@#****!!!! technology - have tried several times now and each time defeated. Even when I remembered to preview it before posting. It must be something to do with being born when I was - the wireless was still relatively modern technology in our house, so I don't think I stood a chance of keeping up in a world of ipods, ipads and iphones or whatever they're called.

I was merely going to say in pictorial form that Sarah should award Mr shrtyscott3 an extra star for his humourous banner, but I've given up.

[CathCat]

So, we got back up into the office a little early tonight and I was feeling inspired so thought I'd drum up a couple of quick logo ideas! I really want badges, and Sarah says she won't let me have some unless people submit some logo ideas, and so I thought I'd make a couple of examples and hope it inspires some of you to do the same!



They're nothing fancy, but they're only going on 25mm diameter button badges, so they don't need to be complicated!

So come on, now I've put something up, you guys all need to do so too!

[shrtyscott3]

I found an AMAZING program to replace MS Paint for the Mac. Here is one of my attempts at a logo.

EDIT: I didn't know attaching meant you would have to download the picture. Here is a forum friendly preview:

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[BuzyBea]

ooooh I really love that! It's like olde worlde.