diyAudio Logo Competition

[AudioFreak]

are you sure that that was the intended image?

 

[karahara]

Hi.

I've made a Wallpaper for my Desktop, maybe anybody wants it also...

 

[Riso]

New logo

my design is very simple, without any symbols

 

[geewhizbang]

I love the font you used and the overall effect. I think there needs to be something above the "com" so that you can see the top edge of the m.

Somehow, not seeing the "hump" in the m is vaguely disturbing.

(Perhaps a variation of my imperfect waves would loog good in that corner.)

 

[Ropie]

Re: New logo

my design is very simple, without any symbols

That is absolutely very nice. The best new design for ages.
I have to say the 'missing' parts of the text work for me

edit: I just had a look at your website and that's bloody great too!

 

[adx]

Somehow, not seeing the "hump" in the m is vaguely disturbing.

I must be already disturbed because it's fine for me

I like it. It would get my vote if we had to replace the existing one.

 

[planet10]

That last one is very good... so nice i had a look to see what it would do in blue...

dave

 

[geewhizbang]

I like this idea so much that I have also done my own variation.

I still think the tops of the m should not be made invisible.

There is room, I like having the dot literally in the logo as well.

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An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

 

[Riso]

logo

"m" without top is basic point of this design

 

[adx]

Someone beat me to doing it in existing colours (or at least blue), so here's my lame attempt at modifying it (if it shows...):

 

[adx]

...I say lame, because the original design uses the different colour to delineate the words and suggest the position of the dot. (I really have no idea what i'm talking about.) What I mean is mine looks like diy.audio.com now.

And while I'm all for the existing logo's funny purpley blue in the existing logo, there's "something about" the red and original logo exactly as it is, something I've seen before, perhaps in the future...

People are designed to be asleep at 4 am.

 

[Ropie]

People are designed to be asleep at 4 am.

But it's 4:30 pm!

Seriously, it's a good logo in any colour. The best 'simple' one that I've seen, though I still like a good complex outing with plenty of bits and bobs on it

 

[geewhizbang]

I still don't like the typographic implications of losing important readability info like the tops of the m. There are some things you can leave off of certain letters, and have them still "read", but the tops of the m is NOT one of them.

I have found a different rationale for putting something solid behind the m in this logo.

I have also very slightly rearranged the letters so that the spacing is more even and other visual cues for the positions of the letters are preserved.

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An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

 

[geewhizbang]

BTW, if my contributions to this logo idea are accepted, the prize still should still go to the original creator of this direction. The font and the position of the COM letters are the key ideas, and my variations are just a minor change.

 

[Ropie]

I understand what you're trying to do but it just looks fussed about with now. The .com is too dominant whereas in the original it added subtle dynamics.

edit: I don't mean that to sound too critical but IMO this is one logo that doesn't require any developing.

 

[planet10]

BTW, if my contributions

Could you please post your logos as gif files... your pngs aren't showing up.

dave

 

[geewhizbang]

I'm not at home right now so I don't have access to any programs that can save this as a gif.

But I was thinking that the .COM part was looking too large myself, and the solution is just to make it a little smaller.

 

[geewhizbang]

Here's the last with the com smaller, in a gif this time

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

 

[adx]

Admittedly the m relies on curvature to give give the clue that it's not saying "coni" or something (we know it doesn't), and it's a reasonably square font so at small sizes this clue does become less perceptible.

On the other hand some work is delivered "done" and no amount of tweaking or inspiration is going to make it any more done. I'm extremely artistically incompetent (in a visual sense) so really I'm
talking through a hole in my head.

Can't stop playin with the colours...

 

[geewhizbang]

Yeah, my version may not be an improvement.

Unfortunately, IMHO the unreadability of the "m" in the .COM is a major problem in this design, no matter how cute it is when you first look at it.