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Shine
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 330 |
Event id #3391 : C64GFX.com CharSet Logo Compo 2024
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I am in! (After more than a decade!) |
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4gentE
Registered: Mar 2021
Posts: 118 |
TRIAD |
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Scrap
Registered: Jan 2021
Posts: 14 |
nice graffiti… š |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5027 |
Quote: Thank you Raistlin for arranging this compo! It's interesting to see all the entries and how the comments goes.
A personal reflection.
For me a logo is a shape distilled down to the most simple thing possible.
It has to meet certain goals like.
- Work both big and small. 1x1 cm size and still be readable, 5x5 m size and still be useful.
- Work as a transparent shape on many different backgrounds. You never know where a logo ends up. It might end up on a moving background like a drone shot, still black or white background. On a patterned background etc. It has to work on all of them. T-shirt, car, banner...
- Should be usable for a lot of different people without messing up. Therefore the most simple shape and color theme that is hard to fuck up.
- A logo has no background. It should be transparent.
- A logo is about branding. Should suit the messenger and their values, put the messengers name and symbol in front unless some other clever idea is designed.
- Should be possible to animate the reveal of the logo.
- Should preferably have some twist that makes it memorable.
Not saying all the logos posted are in any way wrong. After all I've been in the scene since the 1980s and I know the style inside out.
I guess Im just a bit surprised how logos outside the scene works and how it does not correlate very much with what is done here. Maybe it's a good thing? I don't know. :)
IMHO this list is for commercial logos this is for branding in the real world, c64 logos dont need to check all these, hence you can change the style if you want you dont have to put the same logo in the same style on every screen, its not about brand recognition and $$$. |
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4gentE
Registered: Mar 2021
Posts: 118 |
TRIAD |
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The Sarge
Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 43 |
I think this COULD apply to our scene too. Just look at TRIAD as 4gentE repeats here. The striped logo has looked the same since the 80s. Its iconic. And everyone recognise it in an instant. Its brilliant. Also the FLT Druid intro. Iconic.
So if you want to be seen and easy to recognise, use the same logo, everywhere.
Also look at many pixel artists here. We all have the same way of writing our names these days. So a lot here is a brand too. :)
This compo maybe have a different goal, but these are my thoughts. And it always make me wonder why you don't want to have the same style and logo. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5027 |
Triad logo, yes, tho it doesn't check all your boxes: not size invariant cant be put infront of any backgr, etc. Flt druid intro to me its ugly and lame, its your memories about it that makes it iconic. I havent seen that intro in its heydays, so I was exposed to much more polished logos and musics for a long time until I first saw it probably in late 90's, and I wondered what the fuss about. |
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4gentE
Registered: Mar 2021
Posts: 118 |
TRIAD
Quote:not size invariant
Wrong.
Quote:cant be put infront of any backgr
Wrong.
Quote:etc.
Do go on. |
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Scrap
Registered: Jan 2021
Posts: 14 |
@Sarge Well, this is our hobby, not our company. I guess, most artists just want to try something new/different from time to time… no need for brand recognition here… who would care anyway? You also don’t want to draw the same picture every time, do you? ok, often cats, but they are all different… š |
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CreaMD
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3036 |
Actually when you think about it, what groups have the best brand recognition in the scene? Eagle Soft inc. comes to mind. The iconic American Eagle (?) with floppy disk in the beak is unforgettable. Triad maintained distinctive brand feel too. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11146 |
Both Triad and Fairlight used different Logos, not just that one boring(!) one from their crack intro.
Some (if not most) of these "corporate design" logos in this compo don't qualify as proper "scene logo" at all for me for that matter. Just dull and boring. |
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