How do team make a logo

[2185Bilal]

our team has thought of every possible design we can come up with and this is what we got.

How do teams come up with logos. And please give us feedback, on where we can improve

thanks

[MysterE]

It looks great. I like the colors.

[ksafin]

That looks fine to me.

We kind of have two logos, and I believe a lot of teams do this.

Essentially one is a text-ish logo used sometimes in banners, letterheads, stickers, shirts, etc, and one is a much bigger logo with the text logo transposed onto our mascot. So essentially, some cool looking text, and then your team/school mascot, symbol or whatever.

For example, here are ours:
http://i45.tinypic.com/xoejd5.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/muk5zb.jpg

[ChristopherSD]

Stick with solid colors. It makes printing/editing a little less terrible.

[dcarr]

We have several logo variations as well for different applications.

http://www.team3309.org/branding

[Eagleeyedan]

The logo you have is already great. Just in case you wanted the history of our logo, well it's based off a binary principle know as a "gray Code" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code

I wasn't on the team when we made our logo but I heard they guy just sat down in photoshop and since he had been learning programming, he made it off of that.

[JonathanZur1836]

What you have looks good, allow me to make a few suggestions though as my team also went through a logo redesign this year:

1. Designing a good logo that will stick with your team for years to come is difficult. We started working on ours over the summer and only finished a few days ago. Don't be discouraged if things don't click immediately, keep at it!

2. Keep it simple. I make this recommendation for two main reasons: first off, it makes printing a lot cheaper and a lot easier. And secondly, it makes it easier for people to recognize and understand your logo. By simple, I mean that you should try to limit the logo to a simple design that utilizes just two colors, or at least have a version of the logo which is like that.

3. Stay consistent. If you have one logo (or two similar logos for different reasons as mentioned above^^ ), make sure that you use this logo for everything that you do, and that you stay consistent with the team color. This will greatly enhance your team's imagery.

I think you guys will be fine, good luck!

[Liz Smith]

I think it looks good. I agree with the previous suggestion of using solid colors, it will be a lot easier for printing purposes. I would make the ring solid black, and then either use white and green, or two different greens for the other colors. For your particular logo I have a few suggestions that you may want to implement to improve upon what you already have.

I would take that black line around the "R" and make it substantially thicker. This will make the "R" stand out more while still keeping your same design. Alternatively you could just make the outer ring solid black and also make the "R" solid black. The purpose for both of those changes is so that when you're standing across the room or field or pits and you see the logo, it's easily readable and recognizable.

[sanddrag]

Whatever you do, make sure it's drawn as a vector format so it's scalable. Inkscape is great for this, and free.

I like your logo. Looks pretty cool to me.

We had one of the school's art teachers draw us a logo back in 2003, and it's been our logo ever since (http://imgur.com/aRbX2).

[synth3tk]

As someone who came from a team with little funding, I'll also echo the "stick with solid colors" suggestion. There's a lot of ways for you to get fancy and creative while keeping your printing costs under $50/shirt.

Drawing it as a vector format is a huge bonus. Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator can both do this. The advantage is that you have one file, and can enlarge it for banners and shrink it for buttons, all without actually touching the file. It does take a bit of learning to do, though.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

As someone who came from a team with little funding, I'll also echo the "stick with solid colors" suggestion. There's a lot of ways for you to get fancy and creative while keeping your printing costs under $50/shirt.

With a simple enough logo there's no reason you can't keep it under $25 a shirt.

[Boe]

heres my teams logo,
http://fightingcalculators.com/about/about-us/
it was before my time but im pretty sure we made our team name and then drew this in paint, and well it stuck and we all love it

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by dcarr

With a simple enough logo there's no reason you can't keep it under $25 a shirt.

That's what I meant. My original design would have cost us $50 for each shirt. After some tips from the printers, I managed to get it to around $20 per shirt.

[jwallace15]

I like your logo. But if you'd ever need to redesign it, I'd try to create a logo that is solid around the outside instead of faded... Because if you ever need to change the background colour, it would take time to change the outside colour because you'd need to change the colour of all the different shades around the outside of it. A fade to white has different colours than a fade to green. Don't believe me? Look at the picture below. I tried to change our logo from a white background to a green one. Notice the white shading around it? You'd need to either make all those white spots green, or completely redo all your shading.