NettleBaron

Thanks for your comments BP, it all helps. Yes, I totally agree with you about the artefacts, I think they were introduced by DB as he is experimenting with different colours and it probably got introduced somehow when the colours were resaved...or something. Possibly my fault! ...or if you mean the graininess of the colours in the image it is a product of it being saved as a 256 colour gif. I was trying to keep to the same format as original which means the colours are palletized and make smooth gradients appear "chunkier". I need to ask DB if he'd prefer a smoother jpg instead. As to a logo for BPI, I am interested. If you could send me a clear brief of your requirements and a rough idea of your budget (samples of suitable colours in a bitmap format might be useful too) I'll see if I can make a beta version of your idea and get that back to you. If you don't like where its going then no probs we'll call it quits, no fee (unless you want to buy me a beer for my time!) If its to your liking and you want to proceed then we can hammer out a price to take it further. pm me if you like for my email.

I've just cleaned that one up a bit, a few stray pixels...ooohh they make me mad! heheh

Thankyou DrBubb, I enjoyed doing it.

Frizzers, I've been having some real problems with doing you a 300x300 logo! The thing with having a play around with the GEI logo was that the layout and colour scheme was already in place and it was just a question of having a quick tweak to come up with an alternative or two. In the case of a picture for your CWR site (excellent site btw!) there are a few hurdles. If you had something more specific in mind it would make it easier bearing in mind this is in my spare time, I normally work in 3D so this isnt really my field (I've just put my size tens in is all) The main problem I'm having is that a logo would normally go overall with the style of its environment and CWR is a very business-like site. I just don't feel adequate enough to blend in with what you've already got there! I could have just used a picture of you and put the site name on but to be honest I don't think it works well like that. One small error I noticed while looking at your site is your existing photo with the red text is actually much bigger than is actually being displayed...this is a bit sloppy and the way that the browser has to resample the image down is wasteful and mucks up the picture. The code specifies 150x150 so if you resave the image at that size and upload it it will work much better and look better too. I've mocked up a quick bitmap to show one way it could look, its really hasty but incorporates a motif (ripple) that I think might work quiet well as an idea you could use and also as a faint background image too (I know you like waves!) This helps illustrate how the logo works but blends in too with its environment. Anyway, sorry for the rambling and probably not actually coming up with anything useful for you (We've hijacked DB's thread too!)

...without the petals falling off. Heheh The difficulty with this is I started out redoing what already existed and then extending it again by adding an existing element while trying to stay true to the original designs. Maybe if I just can manage to get the revamp done we could start from scratch and do a new one? I'm in the same camp of preferring to keep it simple, restrained and I've tried to tone down the colouring but didn't want to take that too far from the original. With the "incorporating" part added to the side I've also tried to keep roughly true to the original in an attempt to keep the flow of the identity from the old to the new. Anyway, I've darkened behind the yellow sphere slightly to bring it to the foreground, think it works better. smaller version I'm working on a website for myself at the moment and hadn't touched any web design for a good ten years so this is kind of a retrial by fire heh....

Cheers DB, good idea - it'll help make it stand out more.

I'll give it a go Frizzers and try a few variations, see it how it goes. Yes its Putin, a friend of mine did it for a political satire project we were working on (its a shame no-one ever got to see them, Kim Jung Il was rather cool) that never saw the light of day. Should really change it for something else before I get sued.

I like that, simple is sometimes more effective. This is turning trickier by the minute heh. Heres how we are so far, I think its shaping up but I'm not sure if I should be messing with the fonts or not.

Great, glad to see people are liking it. Frizzers: I'd be glad to have a bash at the CWR one, I'll give it a go (hopefully over the next few days) DrBubb: Thanks! I'm pleased you like it. Now when you say convert I'm guessing you mean attach the "incorporating..." part to the side of the existing one? I can do that and also leave you with the existing one, that way you have a choice of two...if that sounds right? Also is it important to keep the image to certain size/resolution? (I'm a bit confused about the "Tag" stuff at the bottom of your message though...it doesn't take a lot to confuse me heh) anyways, I'll get back soon.

Hi DrBubbs just had a play round last night at making a logo as wanted to contribute something to this site as I'm certainly not in a position to contribute any other way. Not that it needs a new logo! I was just kind of second guessing maybe you were thinking of changing it. If not then no problem, if you'd like it changed I'd be glad to do that. No worries if you don't need/want it anyway, just thought i'd offer it up. Feel free to use it and thanks for such a great forum.