In need of an emblem, offering fifty dollars as payment.
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We've launched a charity organization for returning veterans, and are in need of an emblem. This time, we've got a cash reward to offer for the best emblem design. The theme is "Stop Ignoring Veterans," and the desired symbol to include is a green stop sign. The emblem is appealing to several groups, so you need to find a clever way to include them within the emblem, or to draft an alternate emblem that features them. We need this ASAP, so this contest won't be open for terribly long!
Here's a friggen' awful concept picture of about what we're looking for:
[IMG]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/StopIgnoringVets.png[/IMG]
The squigglies around the outside edge being the groups we're appealing to for help, the green blob in the middle being the "Stop Sign" concept.
These are the groups we need called out on the emblem:
Media, City Hall, Celebrities, Athletes, Law, Public, Military, and Businesses.
This is as a direct follow-up to this event: [url]http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/301290/3/St-Louis-parade-organizers-challenge-other-cities-to-welcome-home-vets[/url]
National attention's on this movement, so your emblem designs will be seen by a lot of people!
If anyone is looking for good stop sign fonts, these are decent imitations: [URL]http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=highway[/URL]
[I]Blue Highway[/I] by Typodermic Fonts & [I]Highway Gothic[/I] by Ash Pikachu Font
[img]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/4598/vetse.jpg[/img]
good enough for a 10 minute mock up!!
[IMG]http://odi.dazik.com/samples/stopignoring-trans.png[/IMG]
This was really fun to make, I Thank you for allowing me to use my creativity for a good cause like this.
that's quite generation X for a veterans emblem.
It's the message not the messenger.
Gonna attempt to create something later on, this sounds like my kind of photoshop task.
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/stop_ignoring_vets.png[/img]
[editline]8th February 2012[/editline]
Wheeeee
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;34615077][img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/stop_ignoring_vets.png[/img]
[editline]8th February 2012[/editline]
Wheeeee[/QUOTE]
I'm digging the icons around the border, that's a nice idea, but I feel like the middle could use some tweaking. The saluting soldier I like, but the typography is a bit jarring, and the white field seems unbalanced. Could you play around with that a bit?
Thanks! I'm liking that concept so far!
[editline]9th February 2012[/editline]
I showed your design to my daddio, who's the head of the charity group, and here are his comments:
[quote]I really want [the middle] to just be the inverse of a regular stop sign--green instead of red--with the text exactly as written. The color should be street sign green.
Also, the position of the interest parties around the sign is significant and symbolic the way I wrote it. Instead of media, ALL MEDIA. It's not police, it's LAW, because that indicates the kind of legal assistance I'm invoking.
Sorry to sound picky prima dona, but I need this one to be just how I wrote it out from my head. That image is everything that explains all this for me, so I can explain it for everybody else.[/quote]
For the arrangement of the interest parties, he'd just like you to swap city hall with celebrities, and to rename "police" to "Law."
More stop-signy, too. I rather like this image, but he seems to have a very particular image in mind!
Keep playing with it, man. You're on the right track, I think. He likes the icons.
[b]Click thumbnail for full-sized image.[/b]
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vets2.png[/t]
Icon idea from Paul McCartney, obviously. Tried to keep it nice and simple.
Here's a version without the eagle.
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vets31.png[/t]
Though honestly it's pretty boring without it.
Darker green since I guess this is street sign green.
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vets_green.png[/t]
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vets_green2.png[/t]
FYI it varies slightly in every county, so a specific RGB value would be great.
Without "our", just in case.
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vetsV3.png[/t]
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vetsV3_green.png[/t]
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vetsV3_green_noeagle.png[/t]
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vetsV3_noeagle.png[/t]
man there's been a lot of commission type threads around here lately
It's pretty cool
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;34615946]Examples[/QUOTE]
The second and last examples are the ones dad's feelin' the most. He's got just a few more requests for tweaking them, but otherwise those are pretty much just what he's looking for.
A) He wants the text to look more like a stop sign, with "STOP" centered in big, stop-signy letters, and then with "ignoring our veterans" underneath, smaller.
B) He was the arrangements of the organizations change. To read, clockwise from the top, "City Hall, Celebrities, Athletes, Law, Public, Military, Business, All Media."
C) The icon for "Law" he would like changed to the legal scales, as the police shield falls under the "city hall," category.
Other than that, this is pretty much just what he's looking for! Nice work on 'em, man. :)
[editline]9th February 2012[/editline]
Also, and this is extremely nitpicky, the icon for "All Media" seems to be a bit closer to the text than the other icons. If it's just my imagination, don't worry about it, but otherwise, it might need to scoot a few pixels to the left!
i thought this was about veterinarians at first
They're a separate project.
Did you end up using my logo that I made for the parade for anything? Just wondering because you took it and then I never heard anything.
[QUOTE=Smeetin;34619534]Did you end up using my logo that I made for the parade for anything? Just wondering because you took it and then I never heard anything.[/QUOTE]
No, I'm afraid they went with mine! I thought mine was a bit lame in comparison to some of the submissions we got, but they seemed to dig it (probably better for you anyway, considering how many times they had me change it)!
[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/23gzlg0.png[/IMG]
Here's my version of your concept
Obviously it's not done but I could keep going if you're interested in it
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;34619953][IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/23gzlg0.png[/IMG]
Here's my version of your concept
Obviously it's not done but I could keep going if you're interested in it[/QUOTE]
This is closer to what we're looking for as far as the text goes in the center goes. It's got that stop sign feel. We do need the names of the organizations around the outside edge, though, and in the order I asked for above.
It'd also need to be much bigger, obviously, but that should be an easy fix if you're doing in this in a vector program.
[quote]B) He was the arrangements of the organizations change. To read, clockwise from the top, "City Hall, Celebrities, Athletes, Law, Public, Military, Business, All Media."
C) The icon for "Law" he would like changed to the legal scales, as the police shield falls under the "city hall," category.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;34621119]This is closer to what we're looking for as far as the text goes in the center goes. It's got that stop sign feel. We do need the names of the organizations around the outside edge, though, and in the order I asked for above.
It'd also need to be much bigger, obviously, but that should be an easy fix if you're doing in this in a vector program.[/QUOTE]
Ah yes I gotcha. None of that should be too much trouble for me to do by sometime tonight.
Would be earlier but I've been super busy all day (which is why I didn't post a complete version)
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[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;34621961]Yeah I tried to roll with the white inlay thing but the symmetry of the word STOP kind of messed with me there
Gave it another quick touch up
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/vets_3.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
The silhouette should probably be vector if you don't want that fuzziness. I would also make it pretty transparent so it's more like part of the background than sticking out in the foreground.
And because the text is black, the black silhouette is kind of distracting. I also do not recommend stroking text. I think it looks cheaper and harder to read that way.
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1stop2.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;34619953][IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/23gzlg0.png[/IMG]
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Yours is closest to what we want so far. We're running short on time, so here's exactly what we'd like to see changed:
A) Change the police badge to the "scales of justice"
B) Arrange the parties in the following order, clockwise from the very top: City Hall, Celebrities, Athletes, Law, Public, Military, Business, All Media.
C) Your "city hall" icon looks a lot like a courthouse. If you could design it in more of a "domed roof" style (similar to the US capitol building), that'd be great.
And finally, couldyou could show two versions of the finished product? One with the printed names of the parties and their icons, and one with just the icons?
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;34624700]Yours is closest to what we want so far. We're running short on time, so here's exactly what we'd like to see changed:
A) Change the police badge to the "scales of justice"
B) Arrange the parties in the following order, clockwise from the very top: City Hall, Celebrities, Athletes, Law, Public, Military, Business, All Media.
C) Your "city hall" icon looks a lot like a courthouse. If you could design it in more of a "domed roof" style (similar to the US capitol building), that'd be great.
And finally, couldyou could show two versions of the finished product? One with the printed names of the parties and their icons, and one with just the icons?[/QUOTE]
Ha, sounds like you're just "settling" for me
But yeah I could get all that done sometime tonight or early tomorrow
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;34625060]Ha, sounds like you're just "settling" for me
But yeah I could get all that done sometime tonight or early tomorrow[/QUOTE]
Not at all, I quite like it. Please, get it to us tonight. As soon as possible. Otherwise, we'll have to go somewhere else. Time [I]is[/I] of the essence, here!
[editline]9th February 2012[/editline]
We're on national news in a couple of hours, and we need this emblem for the website we're trying to patch together, so all the traffic has somewhere to go.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;34625231]Not at all, I quite like it. Please, get it to us tonight. As soon as possible. Otherwise, we'll have to go somewhere else. Time [I]is[/I] of the essence, here![/QUOTE]
Alright it's going to probably be about an hour and a half before I can get started again and then from there maybe another hour or two and that should be it.
[IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/23kvx29.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/2dccqwx.jpg[/IMG]
Two different versions with and without words
Make the words right side up, mirrored letters may look cool but it'll confuse and annoy the fuck out of the casual observer. The general public shouldn't have to strain to read your message, it should be easy to convey at a glance.
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I took a marketing and business class once.
EDIT:
Here's a quick paint.net edit of what I mean:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/fQxly.png[/IMG]
NOTE: I took literally 5 seconds to do this, it's not in any state worthy of using, if not for the horrible alignment, look at the fuzzy letters for god's sake!
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;34628532][IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/23kvx29.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/2dccqwx.jpg[/IMG]
Two different versions with and without words[/QUOTE]
Looks sharp, man! As the fellow above me suggested, just make the text right-sight-up, and I think we might be able to call it a night. Kindly PM me the EPS file and your paypal information, and I'll pass it along to pops. You'll be paid in the morning, if he doesn't have any last minute suggestions.
[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/23uoo00.png[/IMG]
I noticed that after I uploaded it
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