[CONTEST] Cerebrum-Synapse Logo Contest

[klange]

That's right! We're letting you design the logos for Cerebrum and Synapse!

We're looking for two, related logos for Cerebrum and Synapse. Cerebrum is the webapp and Synapse is the server app. Design two original logos, one for each app.

A logo with the name of the app in text as well as a symbol is recommended.


The contest ends on July 1st, at 12:00AM EDT.
Please, one entry per person.

Entries must be minimum 800x800 (you can make the actual logo as tall or wide as you want, leaving the rest blank) PNG-formatted images with transparency and you must be ready to supply source files (PSDs, SVGs, XCFs).

All submissions must be Halo-related, or we'll pretty much just consider them spam.

jcap edit: Actually, scratch that. Creativity and originality over "Halo."
bacon edit: I still prefer "Halo" to nothing.

The winner, as decided by the Cerebrum-Synapse Development Team, will have their logos used for the project and will be awarded the ranking of "ONI Spec-Ops" on Cerebrum, plus an undecided prize chosen by the rest of the dev team.

Current Submissions:
DEEhunter and MrBig:
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7638/niggernaught.png
note: I am using the second Mendicant Bias logo for Cerebrum if this wins, not the blue version of this. See my post below for the two icons together.

Chains:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/synlogocopy-1.png http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/cerebrumcopy-1.png

rentafence:
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/rentafence/Userbars-Sigs/cerebrum.png http://www.majhost.com/gallery/rentafence/Userbars-Sigs/synapse.png

[DEElekgolo]

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7638/niggernaught.png
Taken from.
http://www.ascendantjustice.com/files/voc/followup/08.jpg
Thanks avp for vector poops.

[Chainsy]

Ill design something.

[Futzy]

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7638/niggernaught.png
Thanks avp for vector poops.
DEE found the original image, I vectored it.

[klange]

Remember, you need two logos, one for Cerebrum and one for Synapse.

[BobtheGreatII]

Remember, you need two logos, one for Cerebrum and one for Synapse.

Change the color. :realsmug:

[klange]

Change the color. :realsmug:
Ooh. Sneaky. I was kinda thinking blue for Cerebrum, red for Synapse...

[Futzy]

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5103/infectionblue.th.png (http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5103/infectionblue.png)
Don't know if you want any more detail than that for just an icon, its just the plain vector shape right now.
I can also make vista format .ico files at 256x256 if you need them.

[klange]

If that's going to be the submission, can you vectorize the blue one of these:
http://www.ascendantjustice.com/files/voc/followup/mb01.jpg
Together these two images represent Mendicant Bias.

e: Nvm
http://ascendantjustice.com/files/voc/followup/mendicantbias01.pnghttp://ascendantjustice.com/files/voc/followup/mendicantbias02.png

[DEElekgolo]

DEEhunter and avp dragon? How will that work out?

[klange]

DEEhunter and avp dragon? How will that work out?
If no one makes a better pair of icons than the one(s) you have suggested (since, in the form I'm actually using, they're not the ones you made, but I'm still crediting you for the idea), you'll be both be awarded SpecOps and we'll have to think of a secondary prize that can be split.

[BobtheGreatII]

Need more Offensive Bias:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/3/30/Offensivebias.png

[klange]

But Mendicant was a badass mother Flooder. And the red-and-red doesn't really contrast, you know?

Though maybe blue Mendicant and red Offensive...

We may have to trash this contest because it's getting way too Biased in here...

e: Lol, ending this on July 1st instead of August 1st. You now have one week to submit something.
e: btw, https://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/280893829/cerebrum-synapse_bigger.png

[teh lag]

Perhaps I will give this a go...

[Chainsy]

Well, little late, I made blue for syn and red for cerebrum, but they can be changed... anyways my contributions.... cerebrum's is the index, and syn is 101 guilty spark for those who can't tell. Obviously in this large state they are pretty jagged, but I am guessing they will be scaled down much, so will look better.
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/synlogocopy.png
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/cerebrumcopy.png
Scaled down versions:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/synlogocopy-1.png
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/cerebrumcopy-1.png

[BobtheGreatII]

But Mendicant was a badass mother Flooder. And the red-and-red doesn't really contrast, you know?

Though maybe blue Mendicant and red Offensive...

Mendicant should be red, while Offensive would be Blue. This fits because Offensive was constructed to hold back Mendicant Bias because Mendicant had gone rampant.

[Futzy]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/280893829/cerebrum-synapse_bigger.png
That's a great idea!

Ours, which I had vectored at unnecessarily high resolution:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1223/mendecantbias.th.png (http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1223/mendecantbias.png)

Also, sKc_Chains (http://www.modacity.net/forums/member.php?u=2378), I would recommend making your paths into shape layers and then using the distort tool. Otherwise it over supersamples, like it did for you.

[klange]

That's what I'm currently using on Twitter. It represents Cerebrum and Synapse.

e Updating the OP...

[DEElekgolo]

Jockers :<

[Rentafence]

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/rentafence/Userbars-Sigs/cerebrum.png
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/rentafence/Userbars-Sigs/synapse.png

[BobtheGreatII]

Not really Halo related... : /

[Rentafence]

The ring, which is supposed to be a Halo ring.. I took a brain for cerebrum, and put it in the centre of a ring. I took a neuron for synapse, and put it in the centre of a ring.

[jcap]

They don't need to be Halo related. They just need to be creative, cool, and pretty.

Also, someone do some art with the names of the apps!

[BobtheGreatII]

They don't need to be Halo related. They just need to be creative, cool, and pretty.

Excuse me but:


All submissions must be Halo-related, or we'll pretty much just consider them spam.

:mech2:

[Chainsy]

All submissions must be Halo-related, or we'll pretty much just consider them spam.

The admiral says otherwise.
edit: fucking bob!!! ninja. >:(

[Rentafence]

You guys are just mad that you didn't think of it first. :snafubar:

[jcap]

Oh >:|

Well, I think creativity triumphs whether it's Halo-related. We're talking about looking professional. If you can come up with something completely original (http://dzineblog.com/2009/01/54-kick-ass-creative-logos.html) that blows anything Halo away, I'd be extremely happy.

[klange]

I still prefer "Halo" to something completely unrelated and abstract. But the brain/neuron work because they are related to the names of the apps.

[jcap]

I think what's most important really is the entire logo. Not just a symbol, but the actual word. My favorite is when the symbol is integrated into the text somehow, and then as the icon for the app you "pull out" that.

But again, by just sticking to Halo, you're asking for something cheesy and limiting whatever creativity there is to an extremely small area. Especially with the names not even being Halo-related, it's difficult to have them fit hand-in-hand.

Maybe saying a Halo-related logo can sway a "tie" one way or another would be better. Personally, I think that if we let creativity run wild, we'll get something leaps and bounds better than if we add limitations to it. Those logos I linked to are beautifully designed.

[klange]

Well, the contest is over, and it's time for us to decide the winner.

DEEhunter and MrBig:
http://ascendantjustice.com/files/voc/followup/mendicantbias01.png http://ascendantjustice.com/files/voc/followup/mendicantbias02.png
(Yes, I'm using the originals... they look better)

Chains:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/synlogocopy-1.png http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/cerebrumcopy-1.png

rentafence:
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/rentafence/Userbars-Sigs/cerebrum.png http://www.majhost.com/gallery/rentafence/Userbars-Sigs/synapse.png

[Roostervier]

Rentafence's are cool : D

[klange]

lockin' dis

See the thread in CE (or maybe in our own board if/when) for our decision when it comes.