RL LOGO competition - win a pig + efds

[Lykke]

Peter and I finaly successfully registered our new company
and we are proud to present to you

Scottish Delight

It's a company we will run next to our daytime jobs
- as a spare time project/hobby, because of our big interest in Scotland
and our love for whisky.

So we figured we would combine the two,
and came up with a company that sells typical Scottish stuff,
and offers the ability for everyone interested in whisky
to get a great introduction to or an advanced course in (exclusive) whisky tasting.

We are still working on the research and a website to be able
to pull it off (no worries, domain names have been secured
(sorry, neomaven *G*)).

We could use a bit of help in a different matter, though.

We have been thinking quite a bit about what to use as a logo.
What we need is something simple and yet telling.
With the enormous creative community EF has, we thought: "why not ask them?"

The contest will last for 3 weeks
from today untill the 23rd of July - 12:00 MA time.

Rules:

Simple is better.

The logo should contain the words "Scottish Delight".
Should you choose to focus on the whisky aspect
and intend to use a glass or anything similar,
we would prefer you to use a GlenCairn glass.

It should be a logo that looks good
on both a hot air balloon as well as on a business card.

Not overly colorful (sorry, MS9 ).

This is not a popularity contest, so we have the final say.

All rights of the picture belong to us after the prize has been handed over
and we are free to do with it what we want.

The final logo should be given to us as .jpeg + TIFF + Illustrator file
- and adjusted both in CMYC as pantone
(we need to be able to use it both online and on paper).

Contributors of ALL serious entries get a 500 efd token of appreciation.

We reserve the right to not use any of the offered logos
in case we deem them to not represent the personalisation of our ideas.
Of course we will offer constructive feedback and/or supply hints
as to how we feel entries could better fullfill those.
We strongly encourage you not to 'overwrite' any entries,
so we will be able to offer a better comparison.
And who knows, we might end up changing our mind
after seeing certain changes and ask for the previous entry.

If we choose a logo to use, the winner wins an
Omegaton ASG-pig (current market value: ~850 PED)
second prize wins 5000 efds
and third prize wins 2000 efds


GO BE CREATIVE

We hope to get many constructive suggestions / entries

Thanks in advance

[unionova]

Originally Posted by Lykke

It should be a logo that looks good
on both a hot air balloon as well as on a business card.

[...]

The final logo should be given to us as .jpeg + TIFF + Illustrator file
- and adjusted both in CMYC as pantone
(we need to be able to use it both online and on paper).

Does this mean you want it as vector gfx?

Best of luck on your newly started business btw, hope it goes well!

[somon90]

I think I'll have to join this one...

Are only logos created in illustrator accepted?

GL with your venture in the Whiskey business btw

[Lykke]

Originally Posted by unionova

Does this mean you want it as vector gfx?

Best of luck on your newly started business btw, hope it goes well!

Vector might work as well - if we can open the file But we will give it a shot - we tried look into the programe ...

Originally Posted by somon90

I think I'll have to join this one...

Are only logos created in illustrator accepted?

GL with your venture in the Whiskey business btw

No, logo created in all kind of programes are accepted as long as we can get it to work afterwards


And thanks to you both

[MindStar9]

Originally Posted by Lykke

[center]Not overly colorful (sorry, MS9 ).

Why be apologetic my dear ... you're asking for exactly what you want, and that's the way it should be. I wish you luck with this contest, but knowing the talent we have in our community, I'm sure there will be some great offerings, and I can't wait to see them.

[Oleg]

I love a bit of whisky, so I will drink to your future success later tonight with a wee dram of Laphroaig

Unfortunately my graphic skills are noob, so I will restrict myself to a not-very-serious entry:

Being a lover of all things Scottish, I'm sure you know who this guy is

I think I'd be better off sticking to the Trilomite competition

[jim_T]

Gl w/ the competition & your new company hun!

[unionova]

Originally Posted by Lykke

Vector might work as well - if we can open the file But we will give it a shot - we tried look into the programe ...

My reason for asking was that, well... if you blow up say a f.ex. 50x50 px jpg/tif/gif logo on a hot air ballon it won't be pretty. While a vector img has the same img quality in 50x50 px as it would in 5000x5000 px. (I suck at explaining, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics shows it well )

As for opening for example illustrator files, it can be done in photoshop but if I remember correctly an illustrator file opened in PS is rasterized upon open so you wont be able to resize it as vectors.

[NotVF]

Originally Posted by unionova

My reason for asking was that, well... if you blow up say a f.ex. 50x50 px jpg/tif/gif logo on a hot air ballon it won't be pretty. While a vector img has the same img quality in 50x50 px as it would in 5000x5000 px. (I suck at explaining, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics shows it well )

As for opening for example illustrator files, it can be done in photoshop but if I remember correctly an illustrator file opened in PS is rasterized upon open so you wont be able to resize it as vectors.

A graphical colleague of mine also recommended vectors, so we'll just have to look into obtaining Illustrator I guess I did read the link about vectors before, and it definitly makes sense. All I have to do now is the nun into learning how to use it

However, the comment you refered to was more to illustrate that logos shouldn't be overly complex (which would make them impossible to recognise when reduced in size to be used on a businesscard) or overly cropped, which would most likely end up looking silly on a balloon

[DrFeelGood]

I was playing around this morning and made two little pictures. I'm a graphics noob, and I don't know what a vector is, but here's my creations...