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Turnarcades:

Another nice design there from Bob. This seems to be gathering momentum now so I think my message is getting across. So far I'm torn between the two menu arrangements (upper row vs. side menus) but both artistic representations (arcade buttons and imitation sprites) are great. I particularly like Bob's colour scheme and proportional font sizes.


--- Quote ---Just looked at the PSD with the logo and that one needs some polishing as well. If you print it for maquees, it will be that large that you see all hic-ups.
- Try to make it all vector
- Try to be less fancy with the filter layers
- Remove the background tile-emboss effect.
- Rotate Miss Pac and ghost in line with the overall curve (you can paste graphics on the text-line!)

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See my previous posts - I'm looking for a bit of logo work that will be easy to shrink/blow-up and Blanka's tips are probably the way to go. I'm happy to lose the background of the logo but would like something else cabinet-styled to replace it, though I would like to keep the text arrangement and characters (though they may require re-working slightly). Having this text coupled with a stylish icon as I described will give me a recognisable logo that is more interesting than just text, but easily worked into other designs or made into a marquee with little trouble due to it's proportions.

If someone could show me something now based on Bob and Tom's designs and what I've said, and with a blended banner across the top as described in my last post, we're going to be close to what I want. Thanks for the input from everyone so far.

TPB:



--- Quote from: Turnarcades on February 03, 2009, 06:06:46 pm ---
The title font looks nice and retro, and with a reworked logo could look the business up there if 'blended' into some arcade artwork, similar to this effort by Bandit submitted last year:





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Did Bandit receive some goodies for his efforts ?

Who's going to earn the cabinet, if you receive worthwhile submissions from a number of members ?

I reckon you need to bite the bullet, and select the successful tender for the site re-design.  Otherwise, there could end up being a number of folk left with a sense of entitlement after the work they've put into designing their mock-up's.



parag0n:

Ok, i've done a v2, with a quick pacman-themed logo.

http://www.thinkl33t.com/uploads/turnarcades/

As far as the logo goes, i've thought about putting fairly dim/faded sideart in the center bits of the 'walls', depending on what you think will improve it of course.

Not sure how much more work i can do on this before you make a decision though, having to do it in my lunchhour at work at the moment!

Turnarcades:


--- Quote ---Did Bandit receive some goodies for his efforts ?
Who's going to earn the cabinet, if you receive worthwhile submissions from a number of members ?

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At the time I was mereley asking for comments on the existing site and he took it upon himself to do a mockup. I probably would have worked with him at the time but he has been absent from the forum since then.

Well the cabinet will be payment for actually making the website on my behalf. This thread was created as an equal forum to professionals and amateurs alike as there are some home-grown heroes out there who may not get a fair crack of the whip usually if it's not their trade but are willing to do this on the side and earn a machine in the process. It's fair to offer a skill in exchange for someone else's if they are willing to do it.

Thanks for your re-work and comments Tom; it sounds like you can deliver on what you say you can do. Save your effort for now and give me a few days to mull it over. Anyone else can still contribute though and anyone who submits a decent mock-up will receive a £50 discount on any complete cabinet or £20 off a bare wood kit.
 

parag0n:

Since i have this here anyway, here's a bigger & tweaked version of my header.



Bob

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