mmm, container format zealotry

i like them better now ... but i think you should shrink the drawing a littlem more, and expand the letters, mostly the "hydrogenaudio" ... the 3rd one is the one i like better

Something different (Text needs to be improved, but it's bedtime soon ...):


Thanks to JensRex for posting my last picture - and special thanks to rpop who has just provided a place where I can upload.

My few words about PNG related technical stuff...
Someone mentioned here about broken alpha support in IE. If any of the logos is going to use that feature, the good way to workaround the problem is to add a PHP function to the code of HA front page. That way it will work for all IE users and won't affect other browsers with proper PNG support.
Also, someone was complaining about size of the image files. There are 4 great (and free) command-line tools to losslessly compress PNGs as much as possible, so they surely will be smaller than GIFs and of perfect quality (unlike JPEGs):
PNGRewrite - counts number of colours used on an image and if there's 256 of them or less, it will rewrite the PNG in optimized palette mode
PNGOut - optimizes compression, for palette or grayscale pictures try the /f0 switch
PNGCrush - optimizes compression, use with -brute switch for best effect, sometimes compresses better than pngout
OptiPNG - optimizes compression, use with -o7 switch for best effect, sometimes compresses better than pngcrush or pngout
Hope it'll be helpful

First try

I REALLY like this one !

and now my first attempt...



long live hydrogenaudio !

Whoa, lots of great entries coming in.

I'm gonna do more tomorrow, I was gonna do some now, but I'm drunk. Sorry.

See you all tomorrow.

Ruairi

Just updated the logos page for the last time today.
http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/logos/

Tomorrow I'll upload whatever has been posted while I'm sleeping, and will move tumu's logos to a separate page.

Regards;

Roberto.

first attempt
the speaker is from the crystal icon pack.. if its illegal to use i'll replace it

This contest is getting so good it is actually becoming scary...

So much talent here...

(Would anyone help me with MY logo)

second iteration



let me know what you think please

These are getting better and better! I have a couple ideas I haven't seen yet but I won't have time to work on them until the weekend. I hope the contest isn't called before then on account of "too many good entries."

@tgnb: The crystal icon pack is under a Free software license of some sort, so you are in the clear. I do not recall if the license if copyleft; if so, then you're logo would be covered under the same license. BTW: I think the second one looks better. I assume you used the bitmap version of the speaker icon (the scaling is visible in the first one) - the crystal icons exist in SVG format, so you may want to check that out.

very nice ... it's getting thoughter to choose one

just looked at rarewares page ... the one i like better is :



very classy, and "light" in the eyes ... this is how logos are ... only doubt is how would it look with the "handwriten" letter that is used on the others ... and with the letter streched to fit hydrogenaudio ...

see my point?







all very simple ...

Very simple indeed...


But in my case it is simple just because I have no talent at all...

You put mine up there?

It was supposed to be a joke...

I suggest making "Hydrogen" blue and "audio" red.
It would look better, IMHO.

Ok, here's my three attempts...







They might be a little bit big but I can shrink them down slightly.

Is there one audio enthusiast, or two or more audio enthusiasts?

If the text refers to one audio enthusiast, then it is correct ("The audio technology enthusiast's resource"), but if the text refers to more than one audio enthusiast (i.e. the word enthusiast is both plural and possessive), then the correct text is "The audio technology enthusiasts' resource".

I think we should check with someone who understand English grammar very well. Maybe consult the Apostrophe protection society.

Cheers,
David.
P.S. Some wonderful images here! Very impressed.

HydrogenAudio, the resource for the audio technology enthusiast. To me it's for each individual enthusiast, so enthusiast's is ok

The more I check this page the more I reckon it will be impossible to pick a single best logo. Personally I would pick 12 or so and display one a month considering the crazy amount of participation and talent shown

ah damn, danbee, those are awesome!

This is what happens always to me when creating graphics, I make them too complicated and then I always have to get back to the simpler one

I'm very very impressed with most of these attempts.
I'd like a new locked thread edited by moderators where all logos are [IMG]:ed, and continuously updated.
moderators please?

So many good logos B)

Don't finish in the next couple of days though, I've not made my entry yet... I'll be out tonight having a few drinks so should get it made sometime tommorrow or Sunday (or maybe when I get in tonight).

Why, there is rjamorim's page:
http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/logos/

fiddled around with it a bit more:

v2:


v3:


v4:


got another design in the works, fiddling some more! whee

eke.

1.)


2.)


hope u like it..

Two words:

Diaz - Cameron.

[Yeah, I know it's not do-able. Just having a favourite-logo vision ]
Nobody with personal contacts who could get her to pose? I've got some premium pink champagne in the cooler

Serious:
Erm, I doubt it would be a practical issue, but if you are going to use people in the logo I'd suggest trying to get the copyright-holder's (and maybe the model's) acceptance. Better safe than sorry.

my favs so far artistically & staying true to the feel of hydrogenaudio.org, in order:

tigre

i like the fact that the hydrogenaudio is a little soft, the phrase could use a very tiny bit of sharpening

sgreen

seems a bit big, font seems a bit too fuzzy around the edges & don't forget the apostrophe in enthusiast's

rc55

too much solid blue, but something about this one is very appealing, if it were re-worked some

armeck

feels like it should be extended further, the image especially - also a little tall

larppa

i would stretch the words out more accross the bottom of the logo & shorten the end of the image a bit, maybe experiment with the grey background of the speaker with lighter grey's or even blues

eke

i would stay more with just white & blues throughout, a bit more emphasis on the foreground

just constructive criticism that i think would make each one better,
all far better than i could ever hope to do.

great work, everyone!

onthejazz

We should keep all the good logos on somewhere in the forum after the competition, and then people can use them in their personal websites to link back here.

Couldn't get my hands off from Photoshop for some minutes What the heck - it's friday afternoon!



If anyone wants to continue my play, the photoshop image is here.

Have a nice weekend, I'll be gone.

yeah ... for me its between this 3 ... no doubt ...

edit: can we have the first one with the chars of the 2/3?

v5:


v6:

thanks for the input

eke.

since you all are going havoc with the logo how about trying

TechCenter
Maximum performance is NOT enough

:-) just for fun ....

Darn is it to tranparant that i have NO graphical skills. and my site looks liek shit :-D

This one is really good, even with the headphones.

Nice effect you are going for there... but as I am looking at it blending with teh colors of the board, I think the purple doesn't quite match, maybe try a bit more to the blue side? Again I do like it, I ahve begun to think more of a liquidy feel about the logo also.

Another idea...



It's a PNG with alpha layer so apologies to anybody using Internet Explorer

We should keep it strictly about HA logos in this thread. Maybe you want to start an OT thread where people can post their custom requests.

There are some excellent submissions already. My favorites with notes for improvement, in no particular order:


(bottom text could be a little more prominent)



This one, but minus the liquid effect and the shadow



Somehow the speaker doesn't fit in enough. The background thing could wrap around it a little, or the color could be changed.



Maybe a slight bit less of the blue shadow



The drop could be a little less comic-like and more towards photorealism



Maybe make "hydrogen" stand out more


But great work from all of you.

apology accepted

Now why doens IE support PNG fully ?
is ther a plugin to do that ?
and does all the great browser support png ?

IE
netscape
Mozilla
Opera

my vote goes to the above one




opera - full PNG-Support
netscape 6+ - full PNG-Support
Mozilla - full PNG-Support
IE - PNG-Support still broken (but possible via hacks)

About the "why"... well IE has problems with PNGs since several browser versions. The Macintosh-IE-Team even managed to fully support PNGs in the Mac-IE-Version. My personal opinion is, that microsoft are intentionally not supporting PNG. "Its not a bug, its a feature!"

- Lyx

Because Microsoft never got around to it? Because the moon is not purple?

Microsoft promised proper PNG support for IE4 but never delivered. We're on IE6 and still waiting...

Interestingly, IIRC IE5 for Mac actually does support PNG with alpha transparency.

Mozilla (and derivatives like Firebird, Camino, Netscape 6/7 etc), Opera and IE5 Mac all have full PNG support.

Sorry for going off topic...

v6.4: (hydrogen stands out a bit more)


v7: (no BG, character spacing reduced)


v7.1: (no BG, character spacing reduced)


right. i'll leave it at that. mebbe i fiddle around with it again tomorrow (fresh starts are good)

eke.

Looks excellent now.

P.S. Can you make the colors a little less "neon"? I wanna see how that looks like.

bottom text is more prominent (as CiTay recommended)

if any one eles as any feed back, please inform me of your suggestions.





-ty1er


PS: I just wanted to say that Hydrogenaudio has given me so much knowledge about audio compression, i feel the need to give something back.

EDIT:
HERE is a quick image of my logo on the HA site.....

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/intolerance4...6/misc/test.jpg

There are some people in the wrong trade here, I swear! Ruairi's (Sorry dude) old logo at the top is already looking very old, dark, muddy and boldy*

I am just blown away with the quality, I find myself looking at logo's for shops, products, anything now, and thinking how absolutely poor, outdated, flat and ^unprofessional^ they look. You guys need to give yourselves a serious pat on the back, and I can only hope some agency somewhere along the line notices this thread!

Hooj Respect


* But I still love him just as much