Author Topic: New Logo Poll (Read 18716 times)

Allen · « **on:** January 21, 2009, 15:34 »

Leaf and Kngkyle have both posted logo ideas at http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?topic=6862.30

While both are good, I am curious to see which one everyone thinks would suit microstockgroup.com better. I hope I'm not stepping out of line by doing this.

Remember, it is ultimately up to Leaf what he uses as a logo! This poll is for curiousity sakes.
(Plus this is the first poll I've done here and wanted to try one!

)

Leaf's Logos are Orange

edit: edited to add another logo

madelaide · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2009, 16:37 »

I like the blue colors more, but I think Kingkyle's logo has very small text that is difficult to read.

Regards,
Adelaide

lisafx · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2009, 16:40 »

I actually prefer the orange and I like the gradient, but not crazy about the vertical text in the middle.

leaf · « **Reply #3 on:** January 21, 2009, 16:48 »

Quote from: madelaide on January 21, 2009, 16:37

I like the blue colors more, but I think Kingkyle's logo has very small text that is difficult to read.

Regards,
Adelaide

the size can be adjusted. You see how large the orange logo looks on the top now.....
so don't take size into consideration.

yeah, thanks for starting the poll dragon fang I am interested too

and, if anyone else wants to get in the running feel free to submit a logo

MikLav · « **Reply #4 on:** January 21, 2009, 16:52 »

quite frankly I don't like either in their current form.

Particularly I dislike vertical text in the orange one; small letters in the blue; too much text in the blue

fljac · « **Reply #5 on:** January 21, 2009, 16:58 »

It might help if the blue one was adjusted slightly.....

Upsize the text that states "micro stockgroup.com"

.... And skip the rest of the text. IMHO this will make this logo GREAT

Dreamframer · « **Reply #6 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:00 »

Orange color is more aggressive, that's why I like it. Blue is more elegant, but it's not very eye catchy. But I don't like vertical text too much, and I like more the format of blue logo. I would replace "m" in orange logo with "µ" because "µ" means micro, and "m" means milli (1/1000)

leaf · « **Reply #7 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:04 »

yes but M stands for microstock ...

I made a new logo which i think i like better, and have added it to the pole

Those who don't like the small text on kngkyle's logo - make sure you click on it to view the larger version.

epantha · « **Reply #8 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:04 »

Here's a variation on Leaf's logo.

fljac · « **Reply #9 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:07 »

Hi Leaf,

I'm sorry to say this, but the current one is FAR better than the new one...

KB · « **Reply #10 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:07 »

Who's Ms. G?

leaf · « **Reply #11 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:10 »

Quote from: fljac on January 21, 2009, 17:07

Hi Leaf,

I'm sorry to say this, but the current one is FAR better than the new one...

how about the new new one

I think i like that one best now.

fljac · « **Reply #12 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:16 »

epantha's version is close and actually quite good

But I have to agree with whitechild about the orange color, and then I would really like to see the Kngkyle logo transformed into orange and with text upsized and without all the small unnessesary elements...

Allen · « **Reply #13 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:17 »

Quote from: whitechild on January 21, 2009, 17:00

Orange color is more aggressive, that's why I like it. Blue is more elegant, but it's not very eye catchy. But I don't like vertical text too much, and I like more the format of blue logo. I would replace "m" in orange logo with "µ" because "µ" means micro, and "m" means milli (1/1000)

Here is my try with whitechild's idea.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #14 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:20 »

how about something like this with orange gradient as background:

Micro
Stock
Group

well....I don't know where to put .com,

but anyway...

goldenangel · « **Reply #15 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:23 »

MsG reminds on Ms. G or MSG - food additive. I like the dragon_fang's one.

In any case, I will look for you at the convention leaf, to get one of these cards from you

Kngkyle · « **Reply #16 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:28 »

The text size and orientation would of course need to be changed for the different uses. The version of mine posted was designed for a business card, might even been too small for that actually.

fljac · « **Reply #17 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:33 »

Hi Kngkyle,

Would it be too much troubble to change the background color to the "official" MSG orange?

Dreamframer · « **Reply #18 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:38 »

Hey Dragon, how about orange background instead of blue?

Kngkyle · « **Reply #19 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:48 »

Here is an adjusted version for the forum banner in 3 different colors.

bittersweet · « **Reply #20 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:49 »

Quote from: KB on January 21, 2009, 17:07

Who's Ms. G?

That's the first thing I thought as well!

madelaide · « **Reply #21 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:50 »

Since when is orange the offical color? Did we have a poll for that too? $:-\$

I would prefer a green and yellow logo.

Regards,
Adelaide

fljac · « **Reply #22 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:52 »

Quote from: Kngkyle on January 21, 2009, 17:48

Here is an adjusted version for the forum banner in 3 different colors.

They are all very good...

ME - I would most certainly go for the RED one

bittersweet · « **Reply #23 on:** January 21, 2009, 17:55 »

Quote from: dragon_fang on January 21, 2009, 17:17

Quote from: whitechild on January 21, 2009, 17:00
Orange color is more aggressive, that's why I like it. Blue is more elegant, but it's not very eye catchy. But I don't like vertical text too much, and I like more the format of blue logo. I would replace "m" in orange logo with "µ" because "µ" means micro, and "m" means milli (1/1000)

Here is my try with whitechild's idea.

The colors are nice, but the meaning will be lost for the vast majority of people who see it. It would be more appropriate for a science related web site perhaps. I fear poor Leaf would spend half his time explaining the logo rather than sharing information about what goes on here.

Allen · « **Reply #24 on:** January 21, 2009, 18:01 »

Quote from: whatalife on January 21, 2009, 17:55

Quote from: dragon_fang on January 21, 2009, 17:17
Quote from: whitechild on January 21, 2009, 17:00
Orange color is more aggressive, that's why I like it. Blue is more elegant, but it's not very eye catchy. But I don't like vertical text too much, and I like more the format of blue logo. I would replace "m" in orange logo with "µ" because "µ" means micro, and "m" means milli (1/1000)

Here is my try with whitechild's idea.

The colors are nice, but the meaning will be lost for the vast majority of people who see it. It would be more appropriate for a science related web site perhaps. I fear poor Leaf would spend half his time explaining the logo rather than sharing information about what goes on here.

Right you are! I agree it probably would be a problem as many people don't know what that symbol means. Anyways here is an orange version....

lisafx · « **Reply #25 on:** January 21, 2009, 18:12 »

Quote from: Kngkyle on January 21, 2009, 17:48

This one is by far my favorite. Nice work Kyle!

FWIW the reason I prefer the orange is because it is eye-catching and upbeat. Sort of the color of zeal or enthusiasm (if they had a color).

Allen · « **Reply #26 on:** January 21, 2009, 18:17 »

Quote from: lisafx on January 21, 2009, 18:12

Quote from: Kngkyle on January 21, 2009, 17:48

This one is by far my favorite. Nice work Kyle!

FWIW the reason I prefer the orange is because it is eye-catching and upbeat. Sort of the color of zeal or enthusiasm (if they had a color).

In all reality, I like this one the best as well.

Kngkyle · « **Reply #27 on:** January 21, 2009, 18:19 »

I prefer the red myself, but I've never been a big fan of the color orange.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #28 on:** January 21, 2009, 18:19 »

Oh, I think it's great with orange. Just, there are people who are color blind, and orange and green is not the best combination, because this is most frequent case of color blindness (red-green). Again, I don't know for sure how those people see exactly this combination Dragon fang used

Allen · « **Reply #29 on:** January 21, 2009, 18:22 »

Quote from: whitechild on January 21, 2009, 18:19

Oh, I think it's great with orange. Just, there are people who are color blind, and orange and green is not the best combination, because this is most frequent case of color blindness (red-green). Again, I don't know for sure how those people see exactly this combination Dragon fang used

That is too funny! I am red-green color blind and had to pick some color variations I could see together. These ones I could see fine, so that's what I used.

With some of the other shades I found the colors were blending together, even though they are not similar.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #30 on:** January 21, 2009, 18:26 »

Great! But how do you manage editing photos Dragon? DO you have troubles with colors sometimes? My father is red-green colors blind aswell.

vonkara · « **Reply #31 on:** January 21, 2009, 18:56 »

This one is the best "catched my eyes". If I was a looking for a microstock forum I would like the dynamic colors of this one

Quote from: Kngkyle on January 21, 2009, 17:48

bittersweet · « **Reply #32 on:** January 21, 2009, 19:08 »

Well since I'm looking for any excuse to not work on the project I should be working on... I wanna play too.

Here are a couple quick ideas.

(edited to separate the two files for clarification that they are two separate ideas )

epantha · « **Reply #33 on:** January 21, 2009, 19:11 »

Very nice whatalife!

Contemporary. I like these the best.

null · « **Reply #34 on:** January 21, 2009, 19:12 »

Quote from: whatalife on January 21, 2009, 19:08

Here are a couple quick ideas.

For me it's the best till now since the concepts 'group' and 'camera' are on there. The other ones missed that. I hate orange for logos but in this case it's mostly white so the orange attracts attention and stresses it's not a corporate blue thing but a warm group of people. Can't change my vote now but I prefer whatalife's.

ljooc · « **Reply #35 on:** January 21, 2009, 19:17 »

Quote from: Vonkara on January 21, 2009, 18:56

This one is the best "catched my eyes". If I was a looking for a microstock forum I would like the dynamic colors of this one

I like this one best, pleasing to the eyes and sends a clear message, short and sweet

Allen · « **Reply #36 on:** January 21, 2009, 19:22 »

I actually like this one the best now! Great Job! I agree that I would like the logo to reflect that of a photographers community, and this does it nicely.

Allen · « **Reply #37 on:** January 21, 2009, 19:26 »

Quote from: whitechild on January 21, 2009, 18:26

Great! But how do you manage editing photos Dragon? DO you have troubles with colors sometimes? My father is red-green colors blind aswell.

I used to have quite a lot of problems getting poor acceptance ratios due to color balance and such. I actually started a thread back in march about this. I have followed some tips and think I am much better now. (Of course using strobes nowadays helps compared to 500 watt work lights)

http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?topic=3940.0

goldenangel · « **Reply #38 on:** January 21, 2009, 20:07 »

The last logo by whatalife is great!

bittersweet · « **Reply #39 on:** January 21, 2009, 20:40 »

Thanks, guys! I'm glad some of you liked them.

madelaide · « **Reply #40 on:** January 21, 2009, 21:36 »

I like Whatalife's logo too, especially the bottom one, but I guess the idea of "film" in photography is a bit outdated by now. In the first one, maybe a shutter iris would be better, or is it too beaten? Is just that the camera looks a P&S ratherthan a DSLR.

Regards,
Adelaide

stock shooter · « **Reply #41 on:** January 21, 2009, 21:57 »

MSG is an ingredient, Monosodium glutamate, and the name (logo) of an 80"s-90"s hard rock band, "Michael Schenker Group" http://www.michaelschenkerhimself.com/home.php and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schenker - so the MSG just doesn't work for me at all. The text below MSG is just too, too, small can't read it, totally useless. The blue logo to me looks more professional however, again the small text is unreadable. The camera logo is too much like the istock logo. Just my opinion.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #42 on:** January 21, 2009, 23:02 »

I haven't read any of the responses but any of Kyle's look pretty good but the blue matches best.

What's with the current logo? Looks like Miss G...

bittersweet · « **Reply #43 on:** January 21, 2009, 23:28 »

Quote from: stock shooter on January 21, 2009, 21:57

The camera logo is too much like the istock logo. Just my opinion.

Really? Here's the istock logo for comparison. They both have a camera in them. Maybe that's what you mean?

Anyway, it's no biggie.

I thought I'd just suggest using a logo that reflects on what the forum is about, but maybe the text is sufficient. Makes no difference to me.

digiology · « **Reply #44 on:** January 22, 2009, 00:00 »

One more vote for whatalife. I like the top version with the camera.

leaf · « **Reply #45 on:** January 22, 2009, 02:19 »

Hmm, i really like the orange color too kngkyle - a lot better than the blue. I wonder if i like the looks of the red actually better though, but I am rather partial to orange....

leaf · « **Reply #46 on:** January 22, 2009, 02:31 »

hmmm, maybe there should be a prize for the logo that get's used

perhaps a 1 year premium membership

maybe that is a cheap prize... ok, i know
1 year premium membership + 1 month advertising in a free spot on MSG. If you don't have anything to advertise, you can use a referral link.

The winner will be declared by my choice and the popular vote... the 'contest' is just for fun and is nothing official (ie there are no rules) and is mostly a thanks for the logo that gets picked!! I will pick a winner soon as I need to get the business cards printed.

Danicek · « **Reply #47 on:** January 22, 2009, 02:38 »

Voted for 'Leaf's Logo with vertical 'stock' lettering'. While I like kngkyle's logo very much, I think there are too many letters for it to be real 'logo' as I understand it. The logo has to be more a graphical shape than just words and the Leaf's one is the only one that meets this.

I think however, that given the abilities of people here, much better logo in the sense of graphical shape could be crafted...

Just my opinion though, and I'm not even a premium member :].

CofkoCof · « **Reply #48 on:** January 22, 2009, 03:25 »

A while ago I posted this logo in some other topic:

RT · « **Reply #49 on:** January 22, 2009, 04:46 »

I've had a quick go, I'm not sure about the colours now though. Leaf I couldn't find that font.

RT · « **Reply #50 on:** January 22, 2009, 04:51 »

I've just read through the last replies and now I've seen the one by 'whatalife' I think mine looks s**t, I vote for 'whatalifes' but just with the logo at the top and the row of people and text underneath, I don't think you need to repeat the site name twice.

Oh and pump up the orange a bit.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #51 on:** January 22, 2009, 06:00 »

I find the orange kind of dreary, like 1970s appliances. The red or blue are much more eyecatching to me.

michealo · « **Reply #52 on:** January 22, 2009, 06:40 »

Quote from: Vonkara on January 21, 2009, 18:56

This one is the best "catched my eyes". If I was a looking for a microstock forum I would like the dynamic colors of this one

Quote from: Kngkyle on January 21, 2009, 17:48

This one gets my vote too

bittersweet · « **Reply #53 on:** January 22, 2009, 07:18 »

Quote from: RT on January 22, 2009, 04:51

I've just read through the last replies and now I've seen the one by 'whatalife' I think mine looks s**t, I vote for 'whatalifes' but just with the logo at the top and the row of people and text underneath, I don't think you need to repeat the site name twice.

Oh and pump up the orange a bit.

They are actually two separate ideas. I just combined them in the same file for efficiency, but see that has only led to confusion.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #54 on:** January 22, 2009, 07:46 »

I like the first one from Whatalife the best.

RacePhoto · « **Reply #55 on:** January 22, 2009, 15:04 »

Quote from: fljac on January 21, 2009, 17:52

Quote from: Kngkyle on January 21, 2009, 17:48
Here is an adjusted version for the forum banner in 3 different colors.

The blue is more professional, think IBM. However the orange square catches the eye better and stands out.

In the end, don't people say MSG is bad for you?

The orange one is more of a "logo" that says very little else. (no complaints, that's what a logo does!) The name in the blue one above, tells more of a story. I guess it depends on what the motivation is for the logo. Oh yes, the square fits more places in any page setup, Horizontal or Vertical, just because it's square...

Keep in mind, I'm not a designer, never will be.

Phil · « **Reply #56 on:** January 22, 2009, 16:00 »

Quote from: Vonkara on January 21, 2009, 18:56

This one is the best "catched my eyes". If I was a looking for a microstock forum I would like the dynamic colors of this one

Quote from: Kngkyle on January 21, 2009, 17:48

I like this one too, I voted as dragon fangs logo and hope this is it

the blue one is a bit too corporate and boring

from leafs I like the MsG that is currently being used (rather than stock down middle etc)

Allen · « **Reply #57 on:** January 22, 2009, 16:48 »

What a mess of a voting system this is now. lol Go figure, I had to be the one to start it.

In order for this voting system to work properly, I believe that if we have all the "entries", that they should all be listed properly and together and the poll be reset so everyone can vote once for their favorite.

Some people already voted and can't vote again for a different logo they think is better. I would reset the poll and try to fix it, but others may not agree, so it will stand as is.

RT · « **Reply #58 on:** January 22, 2009, 17:41 »

I see what you're saying but then the poll isn't accurate, I voted but now like a different one, it all comes down to the fact it is Leaf who should decide what logo he chooses for his site, then when he chooses one we don't like we can all moan at him

leaf · « **Reply #59 on:** January 26, 2009, 07:07 »

thanks for all the involvement here. Due to a large quantity of votes (myself included) kngkyle's logo has been declared the winner. One month's ad placement and 1 year premium membership were 'awared'

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #60 on:** January 26, 2009, 07:10 »

Good choice congrats to Kngkyle :-)

tan510jomast · « **Reply #61 on:** January 26, 2009, 08:23 »

oi, nice new logo, congrats to the designers.

madelaide · « **Reply #62 on:** January 26, 2009, 09:19 »

Congrats Kngkyle!

Regards,
Adelaide

lisafx · « **Reply #63 on:** January 26, 2009, 11:48 »

Congrats Kyle, on designing the winning logo!

And congrats Tyler on having a cool new logo for the site. It looks fantastic!

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