Quick color business card sketches.
http://www.genimuse.com/temp/bgdf/cardsketches.htm
I assume that the cards aren't intended to have our names on them, but rather are marketing items. If they're to have names, I'll whip out a design for that, too.
-- Matthew
BTW, I'm constantly bugged about whether is should be the Board Game Designers Forum or instead the Board Game Designers' Forum. The latter seems more right every time, yet I can see how the former makes sense, too.
-- Matthew
Wow, I really like (A)
I sent the images to Michael. But the site should have a new stylesheet to go with the new logo.
However, the colors are hard-coded? I forgot the user/pass to the server so I couldn't check how to change them. When you get this message Mike, could you give me an account on the server?
Btw, the logo isn't a clipart as some suggested. It's entirely hand-made in a vectors program.
I think I like the BGDF part of (a) better, but I definitely like the text of (b) better.
I like (a) too, even though it once again leads to me calling the site BDGF.com in conversation (something I find myself doing far too often... :-)
I think I like the BGDF part of (a) better, but I definitely like the text of (b) better.
I agree with this. I would like to see a version with the BGDF part from (a) and the text from (b).
Folks,
Hpox submitted me the logo and tagline, but neither he nor I could figure out a way to combine them into a single nice looking coherent entity. Here is what he gave me:
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Darke
Quick color business card sketches.
http://www.genimuse.com/temp/bgdf/cardsketches.htm
I assume that the cards aren't intended to have our names on them, but rather are marketing items. If they're to have names, I'll whip out a design for that, too.
-- Matthew
Yeah I was actually hoping to have names in them. This would promote both the BGDF and the person giving out the card.
Something like this:
I really like the what letters in the primary colored bold letters. Very Classy. So for me I might want to put:
Michael Daugherty
Founder
Someone else might put:
Joe Bloe
Member
or whatever other contact info they'd like. Matthew is is possible to provide a template so users could enter in the text of their name, choose their title and contact information. I guess we'd restrict the special titles to the moderators only, but the users could choose whatever title they'd like.
Any thoughts?
-Michael
Oh yeah it might be nice to have a slot for the member nickname as well. Not sure how that would work..
At the top of the page:
Take the logo with "The Board Game Designers Forums" text and align it left. Then take the slogan alone and align it right. It looks nice like that. Text might be too large though... it shouldn't be an image to begin with, just text.
Here are a couple of possibilities (quickly whipped out, probably need some refinement if anything looks interesting).
FastLearner wrote:Here are a couple of possibilities (quickly whipped out, probably need some refinement if anything looks interesting).
http://www.genimuse.com/temp/bgdf/bannersketches.htm
I dunno. Both are good but it's missing something, and not anything I can place my finger on.
-Michael
What they're missing is BGDF.com... and I like A very, very much.
Perhaps another die on the other side (rotated differently?)... for symmetry... then again maybe not.
What about "The Board game Designers Forum" in BLOCK PRINT? I'll see what my sister thinks, for another graphic design point of view.
- Seth
Much as I hate to agree with Seth ;-)), I like A very much too.
Shockingly, I'm sure, I let it slip. Sorry. I'll hop on it today or tomorrow.
-- Matthew
Do you think you could make your logo into something like this?
Perhaps with a bit more color (and a bit more talent?)
-Michael
Ok, honestly, seriously, and without question, I will be putting up new versions of the textified logo and the business cards this evening. If I do not, I will personally paypal every admin... umm... some money. :)
-- Matthew
BTW, does anyone have Acrobat 7, full-blown version? I could provide a PDF with form fields (I have Acrobat 5 or 6), and then someone with Acro 7 could open it and save it back out as a form that anyone with Acro 7 reader could use. (Acro 7 reader now allows people to complete forms and print them.) This would allow the fonts to be embedded, etc., so that it comes out looking very professional yet is easy to enter your name, title, and email address.
-- Matthew
Is acrobat 7 something you have to buy? Or is the free download all you need to do what you're talking about?
I appear to have Acrobat Reader 7 which was a download.
BTW, does anyone have Acrobat 7, full-blown version? I could provide a PDF with form fields
Acro 5 and 6 allow you to create forms, yeah, but I think you have to have Acro 7 to create the kind of forms that Acro 7 reader can fill out.
I'll check it, though.
I need a larger (higher res) logo from hpox, if possible, for the board logo (I need it to be a bit bigger). I'll track down his email and ask.
You're lucky, I'm home for easter holiday so I have access to my illustrator files. I'll upload it tonight.
Here's the original Adobe Illustrator file I made. Have fun!
Awesome. I put together the basics with an enlarged graphic (looks kinda crappy). I'll finish both up tomorrow.
-- Matthew
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I sent the images to Michael. But the site should have a new stylesheet to go with the new logo.
However, the colors are hard-coded? I forgot the user/pass to the server so I couldn't check how to change them. When you get this message Mike, could you give me an account on the server?
Btw, the logo isn't a clipart as some suggested. It's entirely hand-made in a vectors program.
The colors are set in the theme. In order to change the colors you need to either modify the existing theme or create a new one, which I don't know how to do. Send me a private message with what you want your new admin password to be.
-Michael