[Sergio]

Bill,
Happy easter.
I just made a couple of quick logos that you can use for now...It'll make some others later.
Here's how the pages would look:

and here are two animated images: (first one is too big anyways:

this one is a little bit better:

and this is a static image:

Hope you like (for now)

Cheers, Sergio R. Trejo

 

[venomous]

Sergio,

Those are way cool. You’ve got my OK, it’s a great way to contribute to everyone’s forum that’s going here. Hey if you’ve got some extra time, feel free to make up something for my build page

.

Duane

 

[Bill]

First of all, these blew me away! They look really, really nice! Good job!

Just a few quick comments:

1.) We shouldn't use the FFR logo in the background unless you call David Smith first. He may allow us to use it, but I doubt it because Shelby and he are heating it up again. He needs to distance himself from anything "Cobra". If you'll notice, FFR took down the links to this website, Cobraforum, and ClubCobra so that they could stay as clean as possible with Mr. Shelby.

2.) Who's pictures are those? We would need to get permission to use them. If you got them from FFR I can get premission, just let me know.

3.) How would these look on a shirt? Would the right car blend with the coupe? Yes, most likely. We need to use contrasting photos so they will come out good. I suggest that you email Phil at Cobra Promotions: [email protected] because he's going to be making and selling FFCars forum shirts, caps, etc. His daughter has offered to help you too.

4.) I like moving banners if they look classy and have a purpose, eg; a car screaming across the page! Most likely a static banner is better for this site.

5.) I will gove you full credit for the logo in the disclaimer section, so would it be possible to leave the name off?

Thanks,

Bill

 

[Sergio]

Duane,
Thanks for the comments, where's your website?

Bill,
As I said these are "quick" images, I could do something more original staying away from using any car images at all but it will take some more time, (designing something new is always frustating to me), so many ideas that go thru my mind at once.
All of the images are from the FactoryFive website, I tought you already had permission from them so I used them, besides this is a FFR oriented forum, ain't it?
I'll keep on trying to design something more original.
Later

 

[venomous]

Sergio

My build site is under the Our Build Pages link on the ffcars.com main page (FFR 2704, Sheri and Duane’s Build). It’s very primitive as I’m just learning HTML (well really just learning to operate Frontpage  ). I enjoy it and once I get done my build, want to get more involved with web design stuff.

I love the one where the cars continuously change colors, very cool.

Duane

 

[Carbon]

Logos should be clean, simple, uncluttered.
If your gonna put it on shirts and stuff, actual images (pictures) can cost a fortune.
I cranked this sample out in about 10 minutes. If you like this direction I can do a few more for you to look at.

Tim

[ April 01, 2002, 07:42 PM: Message edited by: Carbon ]

 

[Bill]

Serio: Your logos look great, I know you were just wipping some out. I like Tim's idea too. Do you guys like this logo and could we do something like that?

 

[imported_admin]

Hey FFCars members, what do you guys want the logo to look like? Give us some ideas! Thanks!

 

[Carbon]

Sure. Give me an hour or so.If not, then tomorrow I'll see what gives.
Here's another "round" style logo, Using Chabel's cobra graphic.

 

[Carbon]

Edit -

[ April 02, 2002, 06:07 AM: Message edited by: Carbon ]

 

[Phil Manro]

We'd be glad to help out. (Btw, my daughter is only 2 years old, so you must be thinking of someone else's daughter, Bill. Chuck Habel's maybe?)

Bill and carbon bring up good points. I like a clean emblem with less clutter AND the more complex images do get costly to have digitized and then to produce.

If you want an embroidered emblem to fit on a hat or left/right chest, it needs to fit within 3.5" x 3.5". When you get this small, smaller objects will get lost. For example in Sergio's emblem, the Coupe and the Cobra may blend a little too much, and the Spec Racer is too small when you take the image down to the correct size. Here is the emblem at 3.5" wide:

keep in mind the above is a picture. When you produce the image with thread, it will "blur" a bit. If you want to use a car image, I would suggest sticking with a single car or even a portion of a car, like Bill's NSX emblem for example.

To give you guys an idea of what I mean, here are a few samples of emblems we have done:

Each of these images are approximately 12,000 stitches each and contain 10 colors each. The detail is good, because it is a single image that can use the entire 3.5" x 3.5" area:

Here is an 18,000 stitch emblem . It looks great, but because of the complexity of the emblem, the cars are smaller and contain less detail:

Why not have a contest to create the emblem and have members vote on which they like best? We'd be willing to invest in converting the chosen emblem to embroidery and then making the garments available on our site if there is enough interest out there.

Phil

 

[Bill]

I saw we come up with some ideas and let the members vote!

 

[Carbon]

Sounds good.

[ April 02, 2002, 06:06 AM: Message edited by: Carbon ]

 

[Bill]

Holly ... that's a great "ad".

I think we should stick with Sergio's basic idea for the website's logo, but also work on another logo for shirts and stuff. The logo should be about 350 x 120 pixels, maybe a little wider.

[ April 01, 2002, 09:29 PM: Message edited by: Bill ]

 

[venomous]

Wow there are some talented people out there! I agree that Sergio’s logo’s are kick ass for ffcars web use while Carbon’s would make excellent shirts, hats, and stuff.

Sergio/Carbon, do you guys mind if I take some of your images you’ve created here and modify them for my build site? Keep up the design, these are great images.

Duane

P.S. What about adding something to this site that contains a number of generic type pics and artwork that (less talented) members could clip and modify for their use?

 

[Sergio]

OK, I have made a LOGO and pasted it onto the banner, here's how it looks on page:

here's another one with different placement of the text/name on the cars:

What do you think?



[ April 02, 2002, 06:18 PM: Message edited by: FFCars4Me ]

 

[Bill]

I think it looks great!

 

[Carbon]

[email protected]^^n Sergio, that's a tough act to follow. Great Job.
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B.

 

[Carbon]

 

[Sergio]

Thanks Carbon,
Yours are great too!