New FIRST Logo

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by matt111

we had no video for the first part of kickoff...then it was UBER LESS RES but i did notice that

personally i dont care. its FIRST's call let them do what they want

It was the feed and the room we were in... for some reason that was the only room that wasn't getting the Satellite feed.

David Kelly came to the rescue and gave a feed that was much better for the time being though

[Blacknight]

Our video wasn't that bad but our audio had terrible static running through it..

[m0rph3us]

From my experience with projectors (specially digital ones) is that they can never do pinkish color (Even though technically it should be red) as the one used in the first logo. That's why for a lot of people the logo didn't look very nice.

[animater31405]

FIRST robotics has changed the logo a little bit the gradient colors were also on NASA television, It wasn't just projectors at the kickoff doing that. The logo has always been changing and looking better. Haven't your teams been trying to find ways to make YOUR team logo looks better?

[DanL]

I think at most, it was a stylistic thing. The main reason for my guess is because gradiants don't print well. The majority of promotional items - t-shirts, business cards, coffee mugs, etc. - they have writing on them through a process called silk screening. Essentially it means they develop a template and burn ink onto the object from that template. Take a look at some of your t-shirts - if they aren't the cheap iron-on type, you'll see that all logos are only a few colors - two, three, or four. The general rule of thumb is that corporate logos should be able to be recognized in as few colors as possible. It's near impossible to have an even gradient using silk screening. That and low-color logos just look better.

[robot180]

Originally Posted by Blacknight

Our video wasn't that bad but our audio had terrible static running through it..

Our feed was fine. The speaker right behind me was extremely staticy, the one in front of me was fine. Matt, I think that was just the speaker you were under.

I didn't notice the new first logo. I think that they should slightly modify the logo to a slightly different combination of those shapes and the letters in "FIRST" so that it looks different, but still saying "FIRST" and using the same three colors.

[mtaman02]

I like both. The flat Red White and Blue was simple in design. We are in a new age and everyday somethings gotta change so that it is better for us. This new logo shown at kickoff gives it a more stylistic look to it. As i look at it from the webcasts archived from last week it looks more or less bicentennial say what you want i'll take either of the 2