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The new logo says overclocker suk.
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I think the ocuk new one could be better, the dial should be in a 3d opal shape that way u can get the smaller of the dials then it getting slightly larger up to the max of the dial Also the font could be better as well as the colour differences for oc then uk. Just my two pence worth of advice as a person that does a lot of this kinda stuff as a hobby.
Edit - Somit a bit like this imo.
Tho i do have second thoughts of the gradient on the text but its just a example.
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With some fancier font look and cleaner gradient.
Edit - Somit a bit like this imo.
Tho i do have second thoughts of the gradient on the text but its just a example.
Edit 2.
With some fancier font look and cleaner gradient.
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No.I think the ocuk new one could be better, the dial should be in a 3d opal shape that way u can get the smaller of the dials then it getting slightly larger up to the max of the dial Also the font could be better as well as the colour differences for oc then uk. Just my two pence worth of advice as a person that does a lot of this kinda stuff as a hobby.
Edit - Somit a bit like this imo.
Tho i do have second thoughts of the gradient on the text but its just a example.
Edit 2.
With some fancier font look and cleaner gradient.
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Good lord it is amzing how something like this great thread comes along, a really cool straight forward deal. I loved it from the word go, really rated many of the designs that were presented. The 'design us a winning logo and win a decent prize' style plan is unfortunately just wasted on a few in principle and in practise because low and behold all the pompous blow hards eek out of the woodwork seemingly oblivious to the time honoured get something done effectively philosophy. Some (thankfully very few!) of you with respect really could take an earnest look at the way you have come over in this very thread and virtually fallen over yourselves to export your ego's quite defiantly. To the expense of your own self pronounced 'professionalism' too imho. What utter tosh, you should be ashamed or at least grow up and apologise a little bit.
It doesn't make the slightest bit of difference who came from where, what qualifications or experience people have in this particular instance. It makes no odds in the every day business of graphics anyway. Talent and clearly awesome ideas will out, end. The bickering really should have stopped quickly and you that were arguing over nowt should have just saved it and knuckled down more.
I've no issue at all with the many who have issued thier general opinions on the many many glorious submissions. You'll get that and it's all been mainly good, bravo! But I do have particular issue with those who have done nothing but whine and rant at each other like overgrown babies in kindergarten throwing mostly negatives about like it just didn't matter. For heavens sakes please cheer up a little bit. Learn from this thing if you like. There's some great examples of original thinking that have gone down here, and I mean that.
Take the good in all this and just roll with it. I think that even to a year or perhaps even five years at art and design college still cannot compare to the subtleties and remarkable variety of works shown over the two or so weeks of this fun competitions duration. Don't let these good things pass you by and don't turn off to them perhaps because maybe you took a little flak or got hammered in any way. Part of being competitive is to raise your own bar, part of winning is not to judge yourself against others. Try to see it in the positive, you know?
I think the winning design's are imho very appropriate to the future of OcUK and will stand ye olde test of time admirably. If I was Mark or any staff member I would be totally stoked at what came forth in this thread, and certainly at the winning design. Great work again Katie! It's been that good all over. Professional marketing agencies might (and I really stress 'might') have done better, but I seriously doubt it for too many reasons to really add to what is an already longish post for me. Certainly there would not have been anything like the sheer variety as has been presented within this competition. I rate this plan a complete success and am very proud to have been able to see it happen.
Well done Oc for coming up with the idea, and well done ALL who made the shortlist. And again, well done Katie. I've found the whole thing really entertaining and I'd sport a logo like that on a race car any day. Thanks very much
Have a wicked weekend!
It doesn't make the slightest bit of difference who came from where, what qualifications or experience people have in this particular instance. It makes no odds in the every day business of graphics anyway. Talent and clearly awesome ideas will out, end. The bickering really should have stopped quickly and you that were arguing over nowt should have just saved it and knuckled down more.
I've no issue at all with the many who have issued thier general opinions on the many many glorious submissions. You'll get that and it's all been mainly good, bravo! But I do have particular issue with those who have done nothing but whine and rant at each other like overgrown babies in kindergarten throwing mostly negatives about like it just didn't matter. For heavens sakes please cheer up a little bit. Learn from this thing if you like. There's some great examples of original thinking that have gone down here, and I mean that.
Take the good in all this and just roll with it. I think that even to a year or perhaps even five years at art and design college still cannot compare to the subtleties and remarkable variety of works shown over the two or so weeks of this fun competitions duration. Don't let these good things pass you by and don't turn off to them perhaps because maybe you took a little flak or got hammered in any way. Part of being competitive is to raise your own bar, part of winning is not to judge yourself against others. Try to see it in the positive, you know?
I think the winning design's are imho very appropriate to the future of OcUK and will stand ye olde test of time admirably. If I was Mark or any staff member I would be totally stoked at what came forth in this thread, and certainly at the winning design. Great work again Katie! It's been that good all over. Professional marketing agencies might (and I really stress 'might') have done better, but I seriously doubt it for too many reasons to really add to what is an already longish post for me. Certainly there would not have been anything like the sheer variety as has been presented within this competition. I rate this plan a complete success and am very proud to have been able to see it happen.
Well done Oc for coming up with the idea, and well done ALL who made the shortlist. And again, well done Katie. I've found the whole thing really entertaining and I'd sport a logo like that on a race car any day. Thanks very much
Have a wicked weekend!
Soldato
While it's all well and good saying how *amazingly good* katie's design is, I genuinely believe her logo winning was 20% looks and 80% "marketing". I've chatted to several other people who haven't posted but have been lurking and they agree with me very strongly on the matter.
I won't go into the details as I've already done so across several posts in this thread, but all I can say is well played to Katie. She used her intuition and did all the things necessary to facilitate her win.
In my opinion if she simply made one post with her entry and posted no more, I doubt her logo would have even made it to the final list, but like I said, in the end her tactic worked so fair play to her for winning
I won't go into the details as I've already done so across several posts in this thread, but all I can say is well played to Katie. She used her intuition and did all the things necessary to facilitate her win.
In my opinion if she simply made one post with her entry and posted no more, I doubt her logo would have even made it to the final list, but like I said, in the end her tactic worked so fair play to her for winning
It will do eventually. I would have thought OcUK are very busy at the moment as they are moving buildings over this whole weekend and bank holiday.
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While it's all well and good saying how *amazingly good* katie's design is, I genuinely believe her logo winning was 20% looks and 80% "marketing". I've chatted to several other people who haven't posted but have been lurking and they agree with me very strongly on the matter.
I won't go into the details as I've already done so across several posts in this thread, but all I can say is well played to Katie. She used her intuition and did all the things necessary to facilitate her win.
In my opinion if she simply made one post with her entry and posted no more, I doubt her logo would have even made it to the final list, but like I said, in the end her tactic worked so fair play to her for winning
Stop being childish Heofz!
20% logo is a pile of tosh, I worked very hard on it. I've picked through your original posts you refer to and every point is either ludicrous or proved nonsense.I could very easily also talk rubbishabout how Nimz was spamming the thread with iteration after iteration after iteration of his logo designs (he must have posted dozens). But this would also be nonsense, think Nimz was great to post loads and loved his examples on my template - think he produced some lovely designs.
Playing the 'oh she's a woman and therefore must be all sly and wily' is more than chauvinistic.
In my opinion if she simply made one post with her entry and posted no more, I doubt her logo would have even made it to the final list, but like I said, in the end her tactic worked so fair play to her for winning
Well if you dig through the posts you'll see that I did make one post and it was on response to people's requests that I posted extras...
I don't think Mark or the Overclockers team are stupid and so I'd been very surprised if this had any influence at all (were they even following the thread? Presume they would just get a print out of all the logos and look with fresh eyes).
Anyway, can we quit the bad mouthing?
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Continued bickering and the winner seemingly needing to justify her win! 
Time to close thread methinks
Time to close thread methinks
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Right on the heels of my post comes this further acid post of yours which is just not in the spirit of what I was trying to say (which I also do not believe you read, or your intent is to fly against it, whatever) and not in the spirit of the thread at all imho. I completely fail to see what your point is, where you're going or why you insist on going down this negative route. At least after I tried pretty hard to sweep the negativity away with a little expo on the jollies of this competition. I just don't understand you at all and I'm just sorry you feel the way you seem to do. Come to the design industry with an attitude like that and I think you will find it to be a very unrewarding and probably short career.
Certainly I do not agree on the percentage comment at all either. Stay away from demographic made up on the spot numbers. I believe with you it's bad air somwhere from before and I strongly urge you to get over it. Or, if you're over it why are you even making such profoundly acidic comments. Nevermind.
I'll give you the cold unbiased account from my perspective and lets see if this helps you in any way at all. I ran through this thread repeatedly, about three weeks ago and spoke with my friends here at home and when visiting in Stoke about which entries I personally earmarked at likeley winners, and to some extent justified why. There were five good efforts on my own 'shortlist', each one of which I believe could have served the purpose well in thier own rights. That shortlist of mine mirrored the actual shortlist that transpired. My only hazy area was which one the winner would be. I'll tell you though, that to my un biased eye Katies effort was not swung toward winning in any way by the variety of application posted in response to requests by others. Thats called having fun and doing what you enjoy. Katie got a kick out of that I know for sure as I would have myself or any one of us graphic designers out here whi have a genuine passion for such work.
What swung it for Katie was that her basic entry did exactly what was required for a progressive company looking for a clean typograhy based semi art logo, and it was chosen by intelligent folks who are used to makiing calculated business decisions. It fitted. You can be completely sure that those making the decision were not swayed by the 'versatility' of the differing locations. Or you may as well just call the management stupid. They have imagination by the bucketload clearly or OcUK would have gone liquid years ago. I don't think they are particularly stupid to be running this show and surviving the way they are in this day and age. That is at least a part of what I was attempting to put across before. That there are good learning lessons here, and a few otherwise good folks could do well to stifle thier angst and flip that over to positive.
It drives me potty to see otherwise good people go at it like this. You wouldn't if you were sharing the same studio and talking one to one or in a group, so what exactly is different here? Of it's the internetz again? Oh it's acceptable decorum? That doesn't wash with either myself nor will it on anyone with any degree of maturity around here or anywhere else much. I hate to say it but quietly inside some might even laugh at you with this carry on. Now, with the greatest respect, you've been called out on other issues as well so do this competition a favour and let it be. Let the winner revel in her moment. Katie deserves it. OcUK deserve it too I think.
I am not going to say another word in this thread. I expect you might not let it go, but I urge you to for your own sake. Heofz, I've seen you do much better than this. You're a good man I'm sure, and thats who I'm trying to appeal to ok. Your call.
Now bog off, enjoy yourself and have a decent weekend.
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At risk of digging myself deeper I am going to say this:
Ugh. I only posted what I genuinely believe to be true. The competition is over so it's all coming from the heart. You can try to make me out to be as nasty a person as you like in a bid to show me wrong, but the simple fact is that I'm not alone in my opinions and several people who never even had a stake in this competition think the same thing which in itself means there is some element of truth to what I said.
Katie I'm not saying you didn't win the competition fair and square, because you did, I've repeatedly been saying that from the start, and I feel sorry that you feel that you need to defend your winning because you do not. I just personally think your entry wasn't as aesthetically "AMAZING" and "OMG!! THIS IS ASTOUNDING!!" as so many people here has made it out to be, and I think some of this came from the fact that you (wittingly or unwittingly) pushed all the right buttons in this forum to achieve this reception. Whether the fanfare had any slight influence over the actual winner's decision I guess we'll never know for sure, but I'm sorry that is how I feel, and if you don't like my opinion at least you can say "well say what you want Heofz but I won the competition, Spie liked it and that's what matters", and you'd be completely right.
Ugh. I only posted what I genuinely believe to be true. The competition is over so it's all coming from the heart. You can try to make me out to be as nasty a person as you like in a bid to show me wrong, but the simple fact is that I'm not alone in my opinions and several people who never even had a stake in this competition think the same thing which in itself means there is some element of truth to what I said.
Katie I'm not saying you didn't win the competition fair and square, because you did, I've repeatedly been saying that from the start, and I feel sorry that you feel that you need to defend your winning because you do not. I just personally think your entry wasn't as aesthetically "AMAZING" and "OMG!! THIS IS ASTOUNDING!!" as so many people here has made it out to be, and I think some of this came from the fact that you (wittingly or unwittingly) pushed all the right buttons in this forum to achieve this reception. Whether the fanfare had any slight influence over the actual winner's decision I guess we'll never know for sure, but I'm sorry that is how I feel, and if you don't like my opinion at least you can say "well say what you want Heofz but I won the competition, Spie liked it and that's what matters", and you'd be completely right.
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Been browsing some of the pages and i must say im surprised the one on the site won, as there are others that are amazing and the one that won is just basic wording with nothing special about it and a simple dial shape. Something smells fishy to me. Without reading the whole thread, why did it win?
There has been atleast one female originating post on these boards before you know, I'm pretty sure Gilly didn't hand over the keys to OcUK on each occasion.
From when Katie's was first posted it had a very positive response from a lot of members and if I remember any of her subsequent posts of the logos in different settings were from direct requests (no matter how silly), from the POV of the competition definitely deserved the top3 -- any of those were worthy of a win I didn't really mind which.
I think they should take her up on the slight interface overhaul from black to white, it looked better in that setting.
But just remember that it was a community based competition that she won... trying to undermine that now serves no purpose other than you being a **** or sour grapes.
Because it was simple and fresh looking and goes well with the image of OcUK site... tacky gradients, drop shadows, highlights, cartoons, elaborate pictorals etc do not a logo make.
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