Logo Competition

[Syranide]

Mine is just a chip with WM on top.

Beers is more simple and has a more nifty way to show the technical part.. aka better.

That's why.

If you want my honest opinion, I do like where you are going with yours, but not as a logo, more as an icon or representation. (think of all major corporations, they more or less have their name and some little iconic trademark touch).

If you are interested, I'd say this about it, if not, nothing to see here, moving along :lol::

1. If you don't know what WM is, then you won't understand it, nor know what it is, meaning it becomes more like advertising for those who are a fan of it, rather than a "trademark" that you can (subconsciously) remember/associate (when you see the on/off-sign you will likely associate with technical/digital, even if you've never heard of WireMod before).

2. It's not really a logo in my opinion, more like an icon, and although the perspective has a purpose, it is hard to use it in a context/background because it will always look out of place, it is skewed and that puts constraints on the surrounding content as well.

3. Very busy, many small pins and akward distortion of WM, it's something funny with it, I can clearly see WM, but everytime I loose focus I kind of have to "scan" the image again to "see it" (think of it like looking at a word, at a glance you can know what it says, but if it is blurry or cluttered you have to concentrate).

4. Kind of like 3, use spacing/padding to make features more easily distinguishable and prominent, you have WM all the way out to the pins and "the letters slightly tangled". It has more of a "picture"-appearance rather than "readable/memorizable"-appearance.

5. I would never recommend using enclosing objects for logos, it gives them a very blocky and/or problematic shape, that is hard to use and easily look out of place.


My general recommendations would be to keep it simple, try to convey the message with something the end-users might be able to associate to (like a chip/processor, on-off-sign, connector, and remember you are simplifying it, accuracy is not important) and use the full name (or most of it). I've sometimes found myself seeing a logo, disregarding it and then change my mind, but since it had no easily identifiable title, I had nothing to look for.

And always remember the context/environment, many things can look awesome in photoshop, but they look out of place wherever they are used, this is very important to remember. Use "place holder" backgrounds when you design to avoid this.

[Bull]

If you want my honest opinion, I do like where you are going with yours, but not as a logo, more as an icon or representation. (think of all major corporations, they more or less have their name and some little iconic trademark touch).

Funny that you say that.. I've no experience with making logos and such, so I googled what a good logo should have. Simplicity, not a lot colors and it has to say something about the product. Anyway, I through it all into that.

If you are interested, I'd say this about it, if not, nothing to see here, moving along :lol::

If you take the time to write a post this long on a little remark of mine, then I'm interested.

1. If you don't know what WM is, then you won't understand it, nor know what it is, meaning it becomes more like advertising for those who are a fan of it, rather than a "trademark" that you can (subconsciously) remember/associate (when you see the on/off-sign you will likely associate with technical/digital, even if you've never heard of WireMod before).

At first, I uploaded it like this to photobucker

I removed because it was a logo competition, not a logo and name to clarify what the logo is competition. So I knew it wasn't great already.

2. It's not really a logo in my opinion, more like an icon, and although the perspective has a purpose, it is hard to use it in a context/background because it will always look out of place, it is skewed and that puts constraints on the surrounding content as well.

3. Very busy, many small pins and akward distortion of WM, it's something funny with it, I can clearly see WM, but everytime I loose focus I kind of have to "scan" the image again to "see it" (think of it like looking at a word, at a glance you can know what it says, but if it is blurry or cluttered you have to concentrate).

4. Kind of like 3, use spacing/padding to make features more easily distinguishable and prominent, you have WM all the way out to the pins and "the letters slightly tangled". It has more of a "picture"-appearance rather than "readable/memorizable"-appearance.

I loved how you summed up everything.
As you can see even better on the picture above, WM is made up by 3 parallel lines crossed by 3 other parallel lines. In order to get WM not to be distorted the angle between the 2 lines needs to be 60 degrees.
That is why the whole logo is that skew, it's drawn around that mathematical WM.

About loosing focus, I guess that is caused by the same thing. I bet it's even worse without the line between W and M.

5. I would never recommend using enclosing objects for logos, it gives them a very blocky and/or problematic shape, that is hard to use and easily look out of place.

And I know that is a part of the problem and the reason why I said Beer has the best logo.
It's straight forward, the O tells it is something technical and is has a very clear look.

My general recommendations would be to keep it simple, try to convey the message with something the end-users might be able to associate to (like a chip/processor, on-off-sign, connector, and remember you are simplifying it, accuracy is not important) and use the full name (or most of it). I've sometimes found myself seeing a logo, disregarding it and then change my mind, but since it had no easily identifiable title, I had nothing to look for.

And always remember the context/environment, many things can look awesome in photoshop, but they look out of place wherever they are used, this is very important to remember. Use "place holder" backgrounds when you design to avoid this.

Thanks for the feedback, Syranide. I doubt I will ever go further in the advertisement business, but still, it was fun to do. Oh, and I now know how to use vector masks in photoshop, neat stuff!

/bow

[Beer]

I like beer! ... Oops, I mean, I like Beer's entry, except, why so much padding?

The padding is just there for sample purposes. The logo would look best on a dark background, and I wanted to make that point. It's just there for decoration really.

Thanks

I really really () like this concept (regardless of background and color), simple, clean, two colors, and has a simple iconic touch (the O) that everyone knows and to me in a sense really "sums up" wiremod. That, and due to that it is also suitable for all "environments", not just on a certain background. In my opinion, exactly the result shoud be.

Really good work with that, it's obvious that you got some talent for this. It's great to see people successfully convey a message with so little and something so simple. This definately has my vote.

Wow, very nice reply, thanks.

[Jookia]

[KillingStrider]

[chinoto]

Makes wiremod look like some halloween website.

To Black Phoenix: :dots:

[Black Phoenix]

[Asphid]

Yes. Just yes.

[KillingStrider]

Makes wiremod look like some halloween website.

lol, you are actually right :P



But here is something else :P

[chinoto]

Could make somone think its a matrix fansite, though it does look nice.