Hey all, may have noticed I'm often competing beside you in some of the contests around here, but I have a site of my own going up. I need a logo but I can't seem to dig up something that I like. I wanted to pull some creativity from you guys and gals and hope we can get me something I'm satisfied with. I will pay $15 to my favorite design weather I use it or not. No need for vector it's just going to be on the web page. Name: The Trees Bonsai Slogan: Sculpting Minds One Bonsai At A Time I haven't decided on color schemes yet, just think earthy colors, red blue green brown etc... I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for yet but I will be giving feedback as often as possible. I only require layered files, .psd or .xcf if your a gimp user. Besides that have fun and be creative.
Not bad VivaWired, but not quite there. I don't realy like the green tint over the tree, if you're going to cover up the tree i'd like to see a black silhouette rather than a colored overlay (I know its a pain trying to crop trees to lay over a different background). Also I think 3 colors in the font is a bit too much for me, 1 or 2 is fine, and I'm also not a fan of the font, try a little less web 2.0 ish, think graceful and elegant.
Dakouten--- I'm liking the layout of the text you have going, I also like the idea of an illustrated tree but I'd like to see it a bit more bonsai ish, for the pot check out these links to get an idea of a bonsai pot ( http://www.dallasbonsai.com/store/media/p62n.jpg http://www.dallasbonsai.com/store/media/P16DkBlu.jpg ) bonsai pots are normally fairly small to give the illusion of a bigger tree. Another thing is the trees are normally skinnier at the top and fairly wide at the bottom to give the illusion of height, there are some great inspirational pics here ( http://www.bonsai4me.com/gallery.htm ) VivaWired--- I'm still not into the font, I'm thinking its the tree you are using thats throwing the font off, try a slim font with some curve to it. Also I like this look of the tree better, but I dont like the lighter shade on the top, and the bottom ends too abruptly for me, maybe try to fade the base or crop a pot on there... Creat3--- Not trying to be rude but I'm not a fan of these, they seem to me that they would fit a site about saving the environment, try to draw some influence from the Chinese or Japanese or throw in a tree like the others. I forgot to mention a time frame on this, but I will give it until tuesday evening unless entries stop comming in. If they do stop I'll give a notice to get last minute entries in before I close it. Thanks for participating!
Much better Creat3, but I just realized this pic comes straight from the net http://www.indoor-bonsai-tree.com/Bonsai.jpg Sorry folks, I don't want to use hijacked pics...be creative and draw one up like dakouten or check out some of the places that sell them...just use the watermarked pic from the site for now and keep a record of the link and I will pay for the pic and put it in later. I have an account at iStock if you want to use one from there but I can set one up elsewhere if needed.
Sory. Her is new logo much better. The tree coming from istock, if you hew acc you cen bay this tree end if you chous my design you tek of from my price Thanks. Link http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-5848377-bonsai-1.php
I like this one of them best, the tree is more visible than when you shrank it down. I would like to see it with the word THE shrank down so it fits the same height as the lowercase letters in the rest of the words...I can make a quick example if you dont understand what I mean. Don't worry about the cost of the pic, if you are chosen you will get $15 regardless. I have 4 credits on there and the small pic is only 2 so it's not going to put me out any cash that I havent alredy spent. I wouldn't mind seeing some adjustment to the color to match the tree, don't know if I'd like it or not but just a thought. Looks good though!
aTo--- sorry I haven't given any feedback yet, missed you last time around. I don't like the look of the tree, not sure exactly why. I mentioned earlier I wanted to keep text color to 2 different colors max, looks like you got 4 going there. I don't think I like the boxed in look. Thanks for the entry, hope to see a revision Nahum Takum--- It's kinda hard to see, faded out or something? I'm guessing for protection...thats ok but tough to see well. I mentioned earlier I didn't like the colored overlay on the tree, if you're going to cover it up could you just use black. I don't like the switch from thin to bold font in the wording. Play with the font a bit to see what you could come up with, it looks gold? Try a shade of brown instead...