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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/13 18:45:32 (permalink)
Hey Legion, I was just yankin ya! He looks exactly like what you said, an angry dude with a ski mask. Amazing what you can do with 6 circles, 2 lines and 1 arc. I'm actually trying to take that minimalist approach to my design also (although mine is a bit more "hippy love power" ). But right now it's so lame I think I'll keep it under wraps a little longer...

Rofl, I'm not sure which of yours I like better. The new one cracks me up because of the old guy flying the thing. He looks like he's from the 1890s but he's flying a modern machine (I love anachronisms like that). Unfortunately, as you said, that detail gets lost in the thumbnail. But the Da Vinci version is instantly recognizable at any scale (the "parchment" color alone ensures that).
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/13 18:46:36 (permalink)
Actually I really like Sven's cover it got that simple easy to reproduce and recognizable quality also.

Have you noticed that in Sven's Avatar he's looking where the Guy on the cover is pointing?

I've been looking in that same direction now all afternoon and I've seen nothing yet except a nicotine stained wall and some spider webs.
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/13 18:59:23 (permalink)
But the Da Vinci version is instantly recognizable at any scale (the "parchment" color alone ensures that).


True, but as an interesting cover to really stare at, I'd take the one with the grass (and add enough tiny little jokes in the scenery to keep you going for a while. Add a teensy little Apple banner hanging behind the chopper, for starters. Just to keep things on an even keel.

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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/13 19:21:33 (permalink)
One more comment about the band Cahoots...that was in my BC days..( Before Christ) We were the epitomy of southern rock & roll with all the ladies, booze and recreationals that went with the life style.
Those days are behind me now. I still enjoy playing loud & rowdy, but more in the style of Jeremy Camp, Kutlass, and other Christian Rockers. Mostly though, I enjoy playing music with harmonies and cool melodies and writing, and most of what I write has a country rock flavor to it.

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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/13 19:37:26 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: Jonbouy

Actually I really like Sven's cover it got that simple easy to reproduce and recognizable quality also.



Thanks, I'm really happy with that logo. Too bad the band is no more!


Have you noticed that in Sven's Avatar he's looking where the Guy on the cover is pointing?
I've been looking in that same direction now all afternoon and I've seen nothing yet except a nicotine stained wall and some spider webs.


Hey, that's pretty much what I'm seeing to! Just finished watching the movie "Being John Malcovich", which makes that a little unsettling...

Sven






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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/13 19:49:00 (permalink)
ORIGINAL: Guitarhacker
We were the epitomy of southern rock & roll with all the ladies, booze and recreationals that went with the life style.
Those days are behind me now.


Don't remind me. Way back, I used to play in a band called Horny Toads. I won't even describe what our logo was...

ORIGINAL: Roflcopter
Add a teensy little Apple banner hanging behind the chopper, for starters.

Just a teensy one. Oh Mr. Gates would freak.

ORIGINAL: SvenArne
Just finished watching the movie "Being John Malcovich", which makes that a little unsettling...


I gotta go OT on this! Best scene ever:
"Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich?"
"Malkovich Malkovich."
"Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich..."

Pure genius
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/14 04:03:25 (permalink)


...or maybe...



What do you think, any improvement?

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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/14 04:24:55 (permalink)
My minimalist streaks says #2 because it gets the job done, and enough is enough. If the texture in #1 had been finer and less obvious, that could be different maybe tho.

Same principle as with applying effects and filters, purposely overuse them initially, and then reduce until you only barely see the changes - IMO in the long run that always works out best. Use your history panel to A/B at all times.

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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/14 04:41:19 (permalink)
Ha ha, like everybody has to go through a period of hypercompression

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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/14 11:28:52 (permalink)
Ax, that logo looks sweet on your website entry page. I also think your cd cover looks killer. Did you do that all in photoshop, or did you actually set up a shot of those guitars on a funky background?

It was done with photoshop - A picture of my guitars stacked up, then a photo I took of some colorful rock was used as the background, and the lettering was done by hand then scanned.

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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/14 13:18:01 (permalink)
I think the same arguement people use against home studio mastering can be applied to musicians creating their own graphics...

"Leave it to the professionals"
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/14 13:44:15 (permalink)
Yeah, that goes without saying, but then again it would also help if you are born to professionally millionaire parents, since hiring pros for everything tends to get a bit expensive, which brings us back to square 1.
post edited by Roflcopter - 2008/05/14 14:04:16

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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/14 14:08:04 (permalink)
"Leave it to the professionals"


I have to disagree. I don't think you can compare creating a logo and mastering, I've been workin with DTP some but I'm no mastering engineer because of that Creating a logo is mostly based on creativity and ambition and know how to get an emotion going, pretty much the same as with creating music. Mastering is very much a creative process as well but also incorporates so much more technical problems. Lots of the most known logos have, afaik, been created by the bands themselves.

So creating a logo, by all means go ahead. Creating a CD-booklet or a website on the other hand... Still a creative process but so much more than just creating a single piece, maybe that could be compared with mastering (oh, how I hate ugly DIY "fanzines" and black bg websites with red fontcolor...).

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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/14 19:59:48 (permalink)
yeah, it ought to be an extension of the creator, just like the music is. if we hadn't veered off that 'professionals' road a few decades back, think of all the players and singers we'd be missing.
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/15 08:29:58 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: ru
yeah, it ought to be an extension of the creator, just like the music is.


+1

I love it when album art is designed/drawn/photographed by the musician, even if it's a bit amateur. Example: David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Bjork. I could spend hours staring at their album art while listening to the music because, like ru said, it's all part of the same creative package.

But I also see what R!soc is saying (especially after struggling with this thing for the last 3 days!). Maybe the best compromise is for the musician to sketch out a rough idea and let a professional take it from there.
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/15 09:05:06 (permalink)
I'm all for doing everything yourself! Saying otherwise would be like saying performing musicians shouldn't write their own songs, but rather cover songs written by profesional songwriters!

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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/15 10:03:16 (permalink)
the songwriter comes first and then the performing musician. we want to hear the creator's presence. a lot of performers should stick to other people's songs.
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/15 10:25:43 (permalink)
not to go off topic here, but i hate the 'professional' tag. it means someone does something for money. what does that have to do with creativity? if i want intimacy, do i find a prostitute? the 'pro' label carries this aura of quality, which isn't necessarily justified. it's often more of a willingness to conform. learning and experience are the actual measurable criteria. beyond that it's art and skill (talent's another misconstrued concept), which are, for most of what matters, intangible, personal, and subjective.

by the way, this isn't pointed at anyone's comment, and nothing against doing whatever for a living; just a loose careening.
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/15 10:30:32 (permalink)
Many 'professionals' earn and certainly keep that status by the perceived quality of the work they produce.

So you may be a professional, Graphic Artist, Songwriter, Performer or Engineer and not be aware of it until folk start paying you for the work that you do.

I'm fortunate enough to have earned a good living from performing and designing so far during my life time but I wouldn't have been able to do either if I hadn't had a passion and a love for what I was doing and gave it a fair go in the first place. And perhaps more importantly surrounding myself with folk who DID know what they were talking about.
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/15 11:19:38 (permalink)
what i'm getting at is akin to how the olympics used to be. strictly 'amateur'; yet possibly the best in the world at what they did.
i just feel we've allowed incorrect inferences to be associated with the 'professional' label. not meaning to detract from anyone who is or isn't professional, but the thing itself implies little in regards to how the term is commonly used.
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/15 18:20:24 (permalink)
I just got this in the mail from Voxengo, and I hope he didn't actually hire anyone to do this - I seriously wouldn't want that in my DAW without a reskin.


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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/15 19:59:32 (permalink)
ORIGINAL: Roflcopter
I just got this in the mail from Voxengo, and I hope he didn't actually hire anyone to do this - I seriously wouldn't want that in my DAW without a reskin.


Maybe they were going for the "vintage graphic" look. Windows 3.1 BABY!!!
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/16 02:51:42 (permalink)
I don't see much Win3.1 in there, it's one big style-clash. As to its vintage, possibly late Frankenstein, maybe early Dracula.

The brushed aluminium is more at home on a Mac with its unobtrusive glassy mini-buttons, and the sixties candy colours clash hopelessly with it IMO. Poor font choice too - squashed in one place, stretched in the other.

If you go for one style, stick to it. As to fonts, never more than 2 types on a page, and that's it. Check google images for *bad* stuff too - you'll see bad artwork pretty much always violates those particular guidelines.

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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/16 06:50:30 (permalink)
It's designed to match the puddle next to your keyboard that arrives just after you've looked at it and hurled...
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RE: What's your band's logo? 2008/05/16 07:25:30 (permalink)
Try eating 2 kgs of this - should do the trick:


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