logo for glittery

[sarupbanskota]

We need a logo for GlitterGallery that reflects what it does. Involving the glitterfox somewhere would be great.

[sohamd3]

Though there is no glitter-fox in these logos but still check out once.! and i will upload the digital versions of these designs and few more along with glitter-fox within tomorrow.

[sarupbanskota]

I'm extremely sorry for the late reply @sohamd3! I like the first one - but can you try making a flat version of the same logo.

Imagine something like a Flat G (like the G in Google) and then the same paintbrush concept. The reason I'm saying this is because we're going to make a move to the Flat UI framework, and it will be a smooth mix with it. Thanks for your work so far!

[sohamd3]

@sarupbanskota Hey its cool man, i guess you were in Phnom Penh for FOSSASIA, so late reply is not a factor where greater purpose is served. :-D ;-) Well I'll make the flat version of the logo, just give me one or two days :-)

[sarupbanskota]

No problem! I'll wait, let me know!

[sanjaykumarco]

I'm working on one... Maybe I'll post today...

[EmilyDirsh]

I agree with Sarup - it'll be difficult to make such detailed logos work well at small sizes, such as favicon size. However, I do like them - just be careful if you're continuing with the G theme that it doesn't evoke google at all. ;)

[sohamd3]

as Sarup asked for a flat logo of the above one(pencil sketch version), i tried to make something that looks almost bit flat... but i am confused with the color :-( please check once and suggest. I am making one more with a different approach... will upload soon.

[sarupbanskota]

@sohamd3 it looks cute! Although I'd like to see how this would appear on small sizes. can you please post this logo in different sizes so we know how it looks as a thumbnail, favicon, etc?

Also, can you try making the G without the fiery detail? Like a plain G in the Google? Don't worry about the color yet, we'll figure that out :-)

When you have the time, try to experiment with the Glitterfox too ;) Look at GitHub's octocat for a good inspiration on using a mascot as a logo graphic. Good luck!

[EmilyDirsh]

Yeah, try simplifying the design a bit more. Also, I think it would work better without the stroke. I like the idea of incorporating a mascot - although a mascot doesn't necessarily have to be included in a logo.

I think it would be worthwhile to explore illustrating the gallery part of glitter gallery. It's maybe a bit cliche, but frames, or arrangements of squares might be a nice graphic motif to include in the logo.

[EmilyDirsh]

Just a little design inspiration: http://designshack.net/design/s-monogram It's a nicely executed letter-focused logo made up of simple shapes and bright colors.

[sohamd3]

Check out these. I tried to make them simple. Its one logo with two different color schemes...! i will upload next one with glitter-fox.

[sarupbanskota]

Yep, let's have a look at ones with Glitterfox too, and then we'll put them up somewhere along with logos from other people. Then we can do a voting ;-)

Thanks!

[EmilyDirsh]

It's better, but it's not quite there yet. Are you trying to make them look hand drawn? They're giving me that impression, but I'm not sure if it's intended or not. I'd also work on making the boxes more of a part of the design - they're just kind of chilling in the corner there, and don't really look like they fit in with the rest of the logo.

[sarupbanskota]

Yeah I agree with the boxes chilling in the corner.

About the G itself, again, can you experiment with something simpler? Try out few available fonts maybe?

[sohamd3]

Okay... I will come up with something different.

[EmilyDirsh]

I'm not trying to design the logo for you, but I did want to give you some more ideas/inspiration, especially with the whole boxes concept.

I'm attaching two different concepts that integrate the boxes and the letterform, just to give you an idea of what I mean by making the boxes a part of the design. They start from the same idea, but feel very different.

There's about a million more ways you could design this same concept, so just take this as inspiration. :)

You'll notice I also included a horizontal version, and a single color version for both logos. These are commonly required logo variations, so keep that in mind when you're designing.

[sarupbanskota]

Some more! They're my favorite design firm actually, maybe you could use some inspiration from their portfolio pages:

http://bearddesign.co/portfolio/ridingo/ http://bearddesign.co/portfolio/poser/ http://bearddesign.co/portfolio/bay15-brand-identity/ http://bearddesign.co/portfolio/wallstreet-wiz-brand-identity/

[Animtim]

Hi, I met Sarup at LGM and proposed to make a logo for Glitter Gallery. I've started making an icon, which can then be used as logo base. I've sent the source and all size renders to Sarup, and he asked me to share a sample here, so you can make further comments and suggestions. I'm sure there'll be some as I don't know exactly which guidelines it has to follow and I just discovered this thread..

The idea is to have some different sized squares like a canvas collection, stacked on top of each others to give a gallery depth effect. The white outline is useful to see the outline shape at small sizes, and to give a painting feeling at bigger sizes.

[sohamd3]

Using the above mentioned concept of stacking square shapes,to give a gallery depth effect, i tried to make something out of it. But it feels very incomplete, please tell if anything can be done!

[sarupbanskota]

Hi @EmilyDirsh, I think we missed out on this thread for a long time now! When you're around, could you please look at Tim's work?

@sohamd3 I'm not really sure what you tried to do here with the squares, I feel the entire thing is disconnected in some way. You could probably experiment with shrinking the vertical height of the image a bit.

[sarupbanskota]

Also, my own SVG skills are terrible, I tried to tinker around some. Suggestions? It's incomplete now though, I wanted to make the thing on the left to be a Git branch with a paintbrush, if you get what I mean..

If you think this might work and want to help with the SVG, just email me! :)

[EmilyDirsh]

Logos are hard. :) A good logo has to encapsulate an entire product in a relatively small graphic. It needs to be able to have variants such as vertical, horizontal, desaturated, and single color without losing its meaning. It needs to look good both at large sizes and small sizes - digitally and printed.

There's no hurry, so I'd like to encourage everyone who has submitted to keep trying. I really appreciate all the work you're putting into the logo, but none of the examples so far really comes together to form a cohesive identity.

When you're working on a logo, consider the constraints I mentioned above. Consider how it represents the project - both through meaning and aesthetics. Get inspired by great logos you've seen before. And most of all, just keep trying! Any professional logo creator will have pages upon pages of concept sketches, but only one ends up being the actual logo, so you're in good company! :)

[sarupbanskota]

Posting for all of us - found this as a link on one of Mo's blogposts: http://www.pinterest.com/mairindubh/photographic-pixels/

[EmilyDirsh]

@sarupbanskota, do you have any news about this? If not, I'm going to start working on one myself, although frankly, it's not super-high priority.

[sarupbanskota]

Nope don't think so. I agree with you, maybe once we have a design team demo out, we could open a trac ticket for someone in fedora design to take up (at least for the fedora instance).