Anyone have some ideas for a new site logo? I can do some graphic work but no artistic ability so if someone can help lets get some ideas?
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Anyone have some ideas for a new site logo? I can do some graphic work but no artistic ability so if someone can help lets get some ideas?
perhaps my wife would be interested.... she's into the whole photography/photoshopping thing, i think she's put out a couple of company logos or something like that before too.... i'll have to try and find some examples of her work.
I was thinking about using an injector or injectors in the logo? Maybe an over sized injector with the website name in the middle of the injector? Maybe an ECM connected to an injector with a lighting bolt, with the website name on the ECM?
dave w
Here you go....
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oBRbTQRZwV...gine-light.jpg
I'll try to put something together. I already have a good GEARHEAD logo but that's for my website! haha
http://gearheaddezign.com
How about a grease stained mouse... with fire! ( Every gearhead likes a good fire. )
A flaming Check Engine Light should be installed on all cars from factory for when there is a serious issue! Second stage CEL for high coolant temps, high knock counts, lean conditions etc...
As amusing as a flamming CEL is, I don't think it would be a good logo for us... that would associate us with flamming CEL issues! :mad1:
Greasy fingerprints on a mouse that is a car, with flames from headers, MPFI intake and smoking rear tires would be more like us. Still not sure it would be right...
Here's an example of a bad logo... funny but not a site logo...
http://www.gearhead-efi.com/Fuel-Inj...1&d=1346427961
how about a flaming 3D memcal with lines coming off of it to surounding items like a fuel injector, spark plug, mouse/keyboard, pcm, etc?
I often joke about everything electronic being smoked powered ... once the smoke is released from the electronics ... the power is gone!
dave w
kind of like automatic transmissions... they're filled with 2 things: transmission fluid and magic. if you lose either one, it quits working.
Well I know for a fact if you open an ECM and the magic smoke comes out it will never work again! Now if you open it and no smoke comes out your good...
now that the wedding season is more or less over, wifey had some time to mess round with this.
http://i.imgur.com/0tx9b.jpg
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I like.
:thumbsup: SWEEEET... :rockon:
I like it, I'm just not sold on it for this site.
I agree very cool but not an automotive centric design. Now if the lightening was Comming off a pcm, sparkplug, or something like that.
Even if it IS in a metal box, we don't want lightning hitting a PCM! :-p
Yea the lightning coming off a sparkplug would be cool, and more auto related.
http://i.imgur.com/fCYbc.jpg
i'm not thrilled about it being an E3 plug, but ????
Maybe turn the spark plug over and make the electrode and ground tab form the 'G' in Gearhead...with the lightning making contact there.....?
Sorry I have not been around. Wife is finally home from 62 day hospital stay... she broke her record of 47 days...
I like the logo too! Tell the wife thank you for sharing her talent with us please.
But... it won't work. If put in place of logo the lettering will be to small. If cropped to fit there would be no lightening left or what is left would look like a smuge.
Off Topic: The patent on those E3 plugs is the spark plugs guarenteed "Miss" within a few thousand miles if not instantly... along with dieseling from the small electrodes getting to hot and glowing!
her comment:
so what size are you looking for?
i'm assuming she meant in pixels.
Shape would be more like it. Look at the logo and space available. Does not have to be exact as site logo but needs to be close as to not alter appearance of site. That said you can understand how using the one she made would end up pushing forums down and leaving much blank space on top. Or cropped to size would exclude what makes it cool, the lightening that matches the site. So it's not that the logo she made is wrong, but web design has already been done and it would not work correctly. I have some graphics training along with all the web design, but I'm not artistic, everything you see on this site including the banners I made. I can take anything and combine it with another, add letters, resize and optimize etc... This is what I do. Build it in much bigger workable size, each item on another layer. When done merge all and resize to usable space. This way you still have original for changes, then merge and resize again.
So if shape is similar to original, then I can do whatever is needed to original.
Actually I was just looking for an original logo and thought we could draw from the members as it's all about what we make of it. If I had a logo I could replace the cartoon car with something origanal in what we have or rebuild it accordingly.
Don't let this create any stress! It is supposed to be a fun project for the community.
I've got lots of ideas just like all that were submitted. But not the artistic ability to apply them in PhotShop, my work is all web design related.
Just tried Gearhead image search on Google and got lots more ideas!
https://www.google.com/search?num=10...w=1093&bih=529
two more:
http://i.imgur.com/0A16d.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/m35q2.jpg
i do have a concept of my own..... probably work better animated though. having binary(or hex) moving into an injector(or spark plug) and having it fire....
and resized to fit the current logo area:
http://i.imgur.com/pWcLl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Fs2EB.jpg
I like the wrenches, though a few electronics items would be a good addition.
The thing I don't like about the one with the Mustang, is that well, it's a Mustang, and it's not a Ford hate thing, far from, I have a Mustang in my stable, it's that if someone sees it, or any particular car for that matter, they may get the idea that we cater to only one type of vehicle for tuning.
If you had an outfit you could be a cowboy, too.Quote:
If I had a logo I could replace the cartoon car
Sorry. I do like the cartoon car though.
Me too! I've loved all those hot rod cartoons cars from back in Rat Fink days. But this car is not mine and not original.
and I do wanna be a cowboy...
http://youtu.be/glb2U6y-GdU
I actually have a couple hotrod original drawings around here from many years ago. I'll see if I can dig one up. Here's something a little different.
Here's a logo I came up with. I could do some kind of pencil sketch too. Or maybe a good stylization of an injector. It still needs something to the left of the logotype...but it needs to be sufficiently generic. An injector might do it. http://gearheaddezign.com/