Contest: Design a personal logo for Codie and win 4000L
Today Shockwave Plasma asked me if I had a personal logo, like the one that belongs to Tateru Nino. Tho I surely don’t have the cult following Tateru has, Shockwave surely thinks I’m hawt shit for asking me such a thing. Apart my standard signature, I don’t have a distinctive mark that can represent me.
I surely don’t have the time right now to design a logo for my personal use. Tho, it would be surely lovely to have something unique I could appose to my work or use around for fun, like a graffiti tag. So I had this idea that it could be a really fun to do a little contest, and ask for you lovely people to design a logo for myself.
The prizes:
- 1st prize: L$4000 cash, 1 MachinimaCam HUD, 1 Sakura Blossom Emitter, all Dramavatar eyes (78 pairs) and shirts (60 shirts), and a big valentine smooch from Codie
- 2nd prize: 1 MachinimaCam HUD, 1 Sakura Blossom Emitter, all Dramavatar eyes (78 pairs) and shirts (60 shirts)
- 3rd prize: all Dramavatar eyes (78 pairs) and shirts (60 shirts)
The rules:
- All entries to the contest must be posted as a link in the comments of this blog entry. No exception made.
- The logo must be a minimum of 1600×1200, for better scaling
- You can submit more than one work
- The 1st winner must provide the Photoshop and/or Illustrator files used for the logo.
- The 1st winner must concedes the full rights to his creation to me (CodeBastard Redgrave) since it is to be used as my personal logo. You retain the right to present your work as a porfolio item of course. I retain the right to modify it at my will.
- I do not engage in using the logo if you win. EDIT: To precise my intent, it’s just in case I feel no logo represents me. Very unlikely to happen but I’m of a careful nature.
- All works must be submitted before Feb 14th 2008 @ 12:00 AM Linden time
- Codie is the sole and only judge, will choose the 3 winners and will give out the prizes personally
Guidelines:
- Red is a must
- Monographic logos are better since they can be used in a single color or incorporated in other designs, but not mandatory
- The logo should be of a square ratio
- Bonus points if the logo looks good when embossed
- The logo can contain writing but should be as universal as possible
- If you are to use any of my previous work, please ask permission. Of course if you need inspiration, feel free to scour my flickr.
Have fun! I know I will checking out the entries. If nobody participates I will take that L$4000 and go blow it on something just to cure my sadness.
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Alas, I have no designing skills so I can’t enter. Personally I’d do you (Phwooargh!) as a red silhouette because babes, I’d know those curves a mile away….
Incidentally, nice to see a fellow fan of ‘Ghost in the Shell standalone complex’
I learn something new about you every day:)
MWAHS xxxx
Kitty =^..^=
PS I did a HUGE fart in the office today, it were GREAT!
Wait, if someone’s logo design wins, you “do not engage in using the logo” …?
@kitty hahahahaha you are so crazy. i love you!
@kage yes, in case i find all the entries doesn’t represent me, i reserve a right not to use it. but that is very unlikely to happend. it’s the usual myself, better safe than sorry. don’t worry, the winners will still get their prize.
My submission …
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoshanaepsilon/1450830022/
*blows you a kiss*
My submission (I will provide higher resolution if chosen):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceobscure/2248655494/
/me made this:
http://media.eyefood.co.uk/codie_logo_white.png
hi there codebastard!
here’s my entry…so far. prolly i’ll send several more ^_^ the size was kinda reduced to 1024 x 768 when i uploaded it to flickr but i still have the original 1600 x 1200 files.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/2248406721_cc993fcc10_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2328/2248406725_537966c028_b.jpg
Hi CBR, made a logo for ya
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stellastapleton/
No more spécifications? Gradients, must be on transparant layer? Max colors, obliged colors? Must look good at small size? Etc? Just ‘create me something’. Oh yeah, I should try.
/me joins in:
Large farm size on Flickr
Codebastard Redgrave’s future logo’s Flickr page.
Really, Codie, this is all you need and more! But if you are still doubting, I’ll tell you why to pick my design:
All vectors, so easily resized and recoloured without quality loss. Of course, the white areas are transparent, so you get a great effect when using bevel/emboss. Adding shading - as shown in the ‘CB RG’ one - is easily done duplicating layers. ‘Codie’ is your nickname and already known, so ‘branding’ this is the most logical step to do. As a background I chose a film strip referring to machinima, but with the sharpness of a razorblade. Cutting edge here! The royal R stands for Your Red Highness. If you want to use the logo for branding purposes, it is recognizable in all sizes, even without the ‘codebastard redgrave’ under it. Your then get Codie R, short for Codebastard Redgrave. I assume I don’t need to explain my colour pick, but this goes great in B&W too.
Great html code not allowed? Just erase the previous one, and I’ll post again:
Flickr page: (small size, I thought you did not want your future logo licensed CC)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintfalken/2251899542/
Larger flickr farm url:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2012/2251899542_584856d4d3_b.jpg
Really, Codie, this is all you need and more! But if you are still doubting, I’ll tell you why to pick my design:
All vectors, so easily resized and recoloured without quality loss. Of course, the white areas are transparent, so you get a great effect when using bevel/emboss. Adding shading - as shown in the ‘CB RG’ one - is easily done duplicating layers. ‘Codie’ is your nickname and already known, so ‘branding’ this is the most logical step to do. As a background I chose a film strip referring to machinima, but with the sharpness of a razorblade. Cutting edge here! The royal R stands for Your Red Highness. If you want to use the logo for branding purposes, it is recognizable in all sizes, even without the ‘codebastard redgrave’ under it. Your then get Codie R, short for CodeBastard Redgrave. I assume I don’t need to explain my colour pick, but this goes great in B&W too.
PS. It’s 3.49 AM and it’s all Miss Plasma’s fault I still started on this tonight! I was going to bed! *tries to look mad at Shockwave*
Vint, you are fuckin nutz, and i adore you XD WOW this is surely one very competitive entry dear! It is totally professional looking, like all of your stuff is. <3<3<3
I don’t know why my Wordpress moderated your first comment, but usually if you posted once and it got moderated, you can post without moderation. *kicks Wordpress*
TY so much for your hard work on this submission, this means a lot to me. *smooch!*
your Codie
Vint,
When I suggest that you go to bed, It dosn’t mean that you take your graphics tablet with you!!
Here’s my submission, babe!
I’m sure someone else could come up with better than this, but I think the idea is fucking awesome. LOL!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rykerbeck/2259135419/
One more…
The Codie logo, sans writing, embossed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rykerbeck/2259152947/
LMAO. Awesome one, Ryker! First thing I thought was ‘breast’. *grin* (Although the neck is larger than the boobs? Is that how you see Codie? ;))
My submish. ^_^
http://jacek.meratalk.com/2008/02/12/codie-logo/
My entry
http://flickr.com/photos/kimberly_mirabeau/2260653785/
*huggles*
Here’s my entry…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14391928@N05/2261812269/
Here you go red..not exactly the pic I had in mind, but it was what I had on my HD. But you get the concept.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenvenkman/2261754439/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenvenkman/2262545686/in/photostream/
Here’s mine for the fun of it
…..
http://flickr.com/photos/erossini/2262172627/
http://flickr.com/photos/erossini/2262172815/
Here’s mine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shockwaveplasma/2263860478/
But as the instigator of this endeavour, I rule my entry invalid.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenvenkman/2263575443/
one more version
is ok???
or this??
sigh!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiotaringa/2264863414/
okay pool is closed! *grins* i will name the winners tonight in a new blog entry!
TY TY TY SO much for all the awesome entries, to be honnest i love all of them and that is going to be one hard hard very hard choice!
<3<3<3
Codie