Well, actually Dibrom and I were discussing this few days ago and we both were for the rotation option, so it was kind of decided. And I changed the news announcement, but I'm not saying that the decicion couldn't be changed.

Yeah, i know you are for logo rotation. But that doesn't rule out the voting. Instead of just the most popular logo we could use the 2, 3 most popular ones.

That's another pre-alpha attempt for a hydrogenaudio emblem built in a humble logo.

klick me

hehe... Nice, low-tech logo, but wahts whit de speling?

Updated the logos page again.

http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/logos/



Sorry, the only way to to submit something to my site would be e-mailing it to me.

It's easier using the upload thread.



It's worth mentioning that charachter is ©SNK.
A shame, because Vanessa is quite hot.

She would be better suited for a gaming site anyway :B

There's so many great logos already.. I never expected anything like this! Lots of graphics talent here!

I really don't like the idea about changing logos. A logo is supose to be a trademark. Having several trademarks doesn't make sense IMO just because there are several very good suggestions.
What is the reason why you want several logos? because you can't decide?

Lots of people featuring headphones on their logos, so here are a couple with my beloved HD-590's...


(The bricks may be too much.)


(So-so, but either needs something more, or needs to lose the background and go minimalist.)

--------------------------

This one I feel good about...

lol

I think that I can eliminate such stoopid things in the next beta

"And thus he blowesth the competition outhet the water
And the congregated flock saw that it was good"

http://home19.inet.tele.dk/peterg/c.png

Weird, i could download it with GetRight, but it doesn't load in the browser. Ehm... interesting logo.

Loads fine in my Opera 7.20

I wonder if I should upload it to the logo page :B

Mozille Firebird loads the pic fine but IE just shows the good old red cross.. Really weird. Cool logo, though

totally agree with you ... here are some
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Well.. in that case we shouldn't take any new logo at all, and use the current logo, maybe with description text edited. But HydrogenAudio is not a trademark.

well, obviously dibron and all the admins have the right to deside what they like best ... but i was trying to formalize what i natural feel about "logos" ... there are many cases of "entities" changing logos, and if done rigth it could be very good ... but is also natural to me to think that a logo, once defined, should stay the same ... that is why memebers here usually don't change avatars ... when i see a tiger, its' JhonV .. the hair changin one is roberto, a cat is peter etc ... just MY thoughts as an "HA.org" fan ...

Right, I got your point, and I must admit, that my opinion is changing regarding this..
Essentially I just wouldn't like to disappoint so many people by taking only one, because there are so many great logo-works and many people have used lots of time.
But, 1 logo does make more sense than multiple.

I think that this'll be the last version of this kind of logo I'm doing. Removed the shadow completely and changed the describing text's font again.

Btw, it's a PNG with alpha-channel but still it should work quite well in IE (prefectly on completely white background on the top, but not that well in here)

Next logo will be something different, if I ever get an inspiration

let christmas be your inspiration

but seriously, i like yours best so far anza, just the byline font is not perfect yet.

here's da "socks" version! *g*



smelly aint it?

eke.

oh and godzilla was just on tele...



... don't ask me...

i completely understand ... but unless we use all the logs here, somebody is allways gona be dissapointed, and in the end, i think that all that participated here (god, how i hate not being good at this) did it cause they want the best for ha.

very nice .. maybe the descr text appears to be a little up to the ha text for my taste

about the rotation, could base on a single logo and do a theme for each special occasion like google does.

Lol, I knew you people would say that the text is too up Changed it now
What do you say, should I put it as low as possible or let it be where it is now?

logo is perfect now for me ....and is the one i like best

okaysa heresa mysa try of plain letters (anza you made me do it! :-D)

eke.v14:


eke.v15:


eke.v16:


notice difference in font, this is "europa"
i still prefer the "audio" part to be white and all small letters

"hydrogen" just beckoned for some more waterdrops so there.

eke.v17:


eke.



all my ha logos can be found here:
eke's ha-logos

wonderful. do not change a thing. put this up now

This is my current fave too!

Looks good, but I think you should get rid of the water effect on "hydrogen", or maybe make it a bit more transparent, so it doesn't distrub so much. I myself was going to make a last try with my logo and put the describing text like that, but as you've done it already I wont bother

no, please do anza! although it may look similar it might as well look better!
after all it's different!

eke.

here's a lighter version, if i make it even lighter the waterdrops would be too faint

eke.v16.2


eke.v6.6 is still my fave


made another variation off eke.v11 too (no dancer):


nu!
eke.

Hope eke doesn't mind if I "borrow" his concept for sub-text placement. Also, I used a white correction layer for the background on these, which I can remove if one of them should win (which would only happen if hell develops a layer of ice).



I don't know why the next one's got some jaggies. I used anti-aliasing and interlacing which should have eliminated them. Maybe it's the filter I used?



Edit: Ah...here's a metallic version that turned out better...



And here's one which could be a link from slashdot, or any "black-hat" sites.



(I know this would clash with TOS#10 if it were anything serious, but since it's just a joke... I'll pull it if anyone thinks I should.)

How about something a little more simple! I dont think anyone's gonna like it though, its a bit girly (includes a butterfly)

JENv2.0 (DELETED)
JENv2.1

eke, this is what I was able to do:

-or-


I really should start doing a different kind of logo...

JEN, I like that logo of yours

@ anza - I know not many people agree with me, but I think this is the best!

A few more:

I kinda like the "leet" one.

specially for anza:

eke.v16.3


closer to board colors:


and

eke.v16.4


closer to board colors:


;-)
eke.

My top 5 logo choices so far:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.


what are your top 5 favorites ???

hmm, guess it doesn't really work with a serif font, it's not very legible that way.

i think i had a "high fidelity" serif font somewhere (the ones you find on hi-fi amps sometimes), maybe such a font would be better?

and you're right. we need a fresh start, something totally different.

NU!
eke.

Talking about making fresh starts, I just couldn't help it, updated my old logo again Now at JENv1.2r6

I agree with you in 1, 3 and 4.
Among those should the winner be, IMHO.

Man, I'm lazy. I was going to make a couple logos this weekend, but gave up. One was going to feature a stylized head wearing headphones and a blindfold (to emphasize objectivism and blind testing), but I only got as far as drawing the stylized head. The other idea was to have a "three monkeys" in the logo, but hear-no-evil would be wearing headphones instead of covering his ears, but then I realized I can't draw a monkey (or even a monkey's head, which is what I intended to use).

btw we too have a logo thingy running *g*
sillyhood logo competition

if anyone feels like giving it a try
NU!

eke.

Tough decision! So many good logos. Here are my favourites:

i do agree

eke.v16.6 (small capital "G") to make room for byline


that's the last one! really!

eke.

They are all great. Real artists at work, I´d say....
But as "love at first sight" wins, JEN´s one is my favourite.


That fading cold-soft-blue style has something....

Updated the logos page again.

eke broke the 30 images barrier :B

And I created an idependent page for ScorLibran.

http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/logos/

Hi rjamorim

thanks