Re: Re: WRRF logo Contest Gallery
 

Unless the designer wants to be shown anonymously, I will put up the designer's name so they can be recognized for their work.

Whatever the designer wants. If they wish to remain nameless, just include that in the e-mail.

Ok.. what aspect of the WRRF is the logo attempting to put across? The introductory post in this thread said the logo must represent the WRRF, but thats really not enough, I think. Hrm, a better question: when someone sees the WRRF logo, what should they envision?

[edit] Furthermore, what is the WRRF's purpose for being? My ignorance in this area may or not be surprising, but although I have heard about the WRRF, I don't really know what its purpose is. [/edit]

I'm no graphic designer, so I can't tell what one is supposed to think of when viewing the logo, but I can tell you about the WRRF, generally. It might help.

For the past few years, the WRRF has been a FIRST-team-volunteer-run organization for supporting FIRST teams. For the most part, it's been localized to the San Francisco Bay Area, but with so many recent developments, things will be changing a lot in the near future. Geographically, it will be increasing (the thought is from San Louis Obispo to Hawaii to Northern California), and it will be more focused towards educational systems, rather than supporting FIRST teams (make no mistake, though, FIRST is still one of, if not the most prominent "co-operative competitive project-based learning programs", so it will be the focus). It is also an officially incorperated non-profit organization, and will (with any luck) have some real financial backing in the very near future.

The WRRF's main points of interest are still the California Robot Games (CalGames), which will be held in mid-September, this year, and the pre-season workshops. These will, as far as I know, always be part of the WRRF.

So, basically, you're making a corperate logo. As was mentioned in the original message, this logo will be used for official documents and whatnot...

Uh, hope this helps... :/

A helpful note.
 

I have been looking through the submissions here in CD's gallery, and I just wanted to point out something for people who may be interested in pursuing a logo design for the WRRF.

Remember that the criteria calls for black and a single other color, as well as a transparent background (as per Jim :) ). Blurs or motion trails or glow effects use more than the allowed colors and cannot be printed in many applications such as vinyl cutters and things.

Just a head's up.

Forwarding an e-mail from Ken Krieger, President of WRRF

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Howdy y'all!

Check this out!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...SC&s tartid=0


These are the entries we have received so far! Some pretty good ones in
there. Where is yours?

You still have 4 days to design and submit your logo for consideration
as the official WRRF logo, to be used on all our business cards,
letterhead, etc...

And remember, the author of the selected logo goes home with a crisp new
$100 bill! (Plus a celebrity dinner with Ken Leung!)

Here are the parameters....

The Final Logo should:
-No more than one color + black
(grey is same as black, so black, white, and ??? is OK)
-SCALABLE! NOT bitmap (ie. vector/eps/illustrator/etc...)
(Submitting a JPG or bitmap is OK for evaluation)
-Do not indicate any state affiliation
(cuz we are for more than just CA)
- Do not incorporate the FIRST Logo
(cuz we don't have their permission to use it)
- Should contain the words "Western Region Robotics Forum"
- May include the letters "WRRF"
- Not too intricate... we'll be using these on Biz cards
and letterhead, as well as banners and posters.
- Interesting, creative, eyecatching, and distinctive!
(like the FIRST logo)
- Submitted as a PDF, JPG, or bitmap document for evaluation,
final delivery in EPS, or ai
-$100 award for chosen design
-Due Aug 1


And keep checking the CD forum to see what's up!

Take it easy..

ken

Does this mean we can use grey in logo submissions rather than black? I mean, grey + white + #abcdef rather than black + white + #abcdef ?

I believe that is correct.

oooh!

I wish I was good at designing...

...but only for the celebrity dinner with Ken Leung. :)

Those aren't too hard to come by ;). JVN already promised he will buy me dinner sometime. That's a celebrity dinner with JVN right there ;-).

The time is up!
 

Hi everyone!


The time is up for the WRRF logo contest submission period. I would like to thank everyone for putting their time and effort into creating logo(s) for WRRF. You can see all the submissions in here:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...DESC&sort=date

There are LOTS of excellent submissions for this contest. A lot of them shows great use of color and shape, and creative symbols and objects. You can tell how much energy is putted into each of them :-). All the authors should be proud of what they did! Thanks again!

The WRRF board is going to meet this week and select the one logo that's best suited for the organization and its image. Everyone I've talked to in WRRF is eager to see which logo will be the winner. I am sure all of you can't wait neither. So stay tune! The winner of the WRRF logo contest will be announced really soon!

-Ken Leung

Any idea what day the announcement will be made? If you don't know yet, that's okay, but I'm kinda curious.

I was trying to send in the EPS for my first one and PDF and EPS for the second one and your email bounced it...

Jeff:

I expect sometime in the middle of the week, the decision will be made. Sorry if I sound uncertain, because I honestly don't know when the group have time to meet and choose a logo. All the board member are busy doing their own stuff for WRRF. I will personally notify all the authors when the decision is made. How does that sound?

DanielBCR:

When did you send the 2nd e-mail? I received a second e-mail from you, but I thought the logo looked exactly like the first time you sent it. If it is different, and you did sent it before 12 at midnight the morning of August 2nd, then send it to me again @ leung@wrrf.org . Thanks for doing this!

Sounds good, Ken. I'm in no rush to find out.

oops lil late