-= Design Our New Logo & Win a XFX GeForce GTX 285 Black Edition Graphics Card =-

martian_aphid · 24 Apr 2009 at 21:49

they look ok but a high quality jpeg would be a better bet

Naffa · 24 Apr 2009 at 21:59

Here's my entry:

I tried to capture what makes the original logo so easy to look at, and build upon that. So you have a logo with a similar sort of idiom, but slightly more modernised which is what the design brief set out.

JonnyGLC · 24 Apr 2009 at 22:15

My turn for the background

Heofz · 24 Apr 2009 at 22:19

My first quick attempt, needs a lot of work & cleaning up (and tweaking + probably juggling around with colours and flag designs etc), but I have exams and will probably not get round to it in time

edit: final submission here: clicky

richb93 · 24 Apr 2009 at 22:26

Downloading a trial of Adobe Illustrator now... Will try some more ideas I have

spirity · 24 Apr 2009 at 22:26

Heofz said:

Simple and effective.

Spyhop · 24 Apr 2009 at 22:42

Nimzicki said:
So many of these entries just aren't logos.

Have too agree.. I think a good logo should work in a few flat colors with no gradients or fiddly-detail.

Using the Union Jack pattern as a fill on another shape looks amateurish because it's so busy.

No disrespect to the entrants, but IMO there's a big difference between a snazzy looking design and a properly realised logo.

sketch145 · 24 Apr 2009 at 22:50

It's the future, I tell you!

</self promotion> :cool:

tang0 · 24 Apr 2009 at 22:59

lol don't mean to **** on anyones parade here but i get the feeling that no one on here knows much about design, maybe with the exception of a couple of people

Surely a big company like ocuk needs a striking professional logo made by professional designers, instead of one made by some random board member

edit: well i suppose you've done well with the one you've got now which looks like it was knocked up in paint

norm · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:04

tang0 said:
Surely a big company like ocuk needs a striking professional logo made by professional designers, instead of one made by some random board member

The rates charged by professionals will be considerably more than the price of the prize offered here however. : )

The logo doesn't need to be fancy anyway, keep it simple and recognisable. Use a max of 4 colours.

PS. I think they should leave behind the whole abbreiviated OCUK, the store is known as Overclockers, so there is really no connection. Logos should be incorporating the web address.

Heofz · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:05

spirity said:
Simple and effective.

Yep thats what I was going for. I was thinking of the practical side of things, like whether it will look suitable on a t-shirt yet still looking clean...

but like I said, there are many possible improvements to this, though I think it has potential

Clawz114 · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:08

Surely a big company like ocuk needs a striking professional logo made by professional designers, instead of one made by some random board member

If you paid someone to design your logo and they gave you this:

I think you would ask your customers to design you one next time too :rolleyes:

Smitho3 · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:21

Clawz114 said:
If you paid someone to design your logo and they gave you this:

I think you would ask your customers to design you one next time too

iirc the current logo was the result of a forum competition.

Heofz · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:21

edit: final submission here: clicky

MrMagoo · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:22

Back to the 2 colour ones... (wife is watching something rubbish on tv).

Black/Shop BG:

Blue/Forum BG:

White/Paper BG:

Not expecting to win, passes the time though

matthab · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:24

Just something i quickly through together. I may have an attempt later on this week.

FYI i have no idea what a EPS is and how to make but ive saved the PSD.

Berserker · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:29

tang0 said:
Surely a big company like ocuk needs a striking professional logo made by professional designers, instead of one made by some random board member

Professionals can make an equally bad hash of things (and charge you £20,000+ for the 'privilege'). This seems like as good an idea as any to me (it can always be 'refined' professionally later - that's another benefit of having the original vector files).

Have to agree with the comments about logo design though - there's an awful lot of very busy designs going on which aren't going to work very well when printed at about 1in high on a letterhead. Not my choice which one wins, just my 2p.

Lunatyc · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:30

jsut a quick entry, fonts can be played with, im trying to go for a conservative look with the logo

aslco · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:31

Nimzicki said:
Try and simplify a bit maybe?

Middle one out of those 3 is the best one so far. closely followed by skippi's

The one below is a good idea too. I like the idea of having those layers passing over in a moving image for adverts.

andrewgmartin · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:36

Here's my entry...

The pattern is made up of layers of semi-transparent blocks of red, white and blue. It can be made as long as needed to put across t-shirts, walls, on the top of the website, magazine adverts, stationery or even cars. The blocks could also be animated to change size and position for use in web adverts and screensavers.

I don't have the facility to make EPS files but I have a Fireworks PNG file at 10000x908, which could probably be converted to EPS. If you want any mock-ups of t-shirts, adverts, stationery drawing, please let me know.