Important Logo Contest

[Deleted member 1]

Everyone, we are holding a logo contest! The prize will be a free premier “Hetman” subscription for the next year. We would very much like to see a competition for a permanent logo and a site banner as well. Both should reflect the them of cossacks and/or Fremen and you must give all rights to the Sietch and everything must be your own or in the public domain. You will all have until 7 September to complete and offer a final design for the logo, header, etc, to give our board a unique identity. Rung ho, and have at, gentlemen!

 

[Lightershoulders]

Question, is there a particular theme that you as the owner and the staff are looking at? Just as a general direction for us artists.

 

[Emperor Tippy]

@Staff
Anyone have any opinions?

 

[Spartan303]

I would say something related to a Haven. That could work.

 

[Lightershoulders]

Ok, so the name of the website is paying homage to Dune as far as I can tell, and google tells me that Sietch mean community or village. So a Haven sort of fits with that symbolism.

Any plans on more styles? A logo should look good on all style option.

 

[Es Arcanum]

My thoughts were running towards using the same distinctive font that the Dune movie used Font Family Page called Albertus font, but its a commercial font and I'm not sure what the legalities are for its use in a website banner.

Likewise I am unsure about any possible use of the famous Cossack painting though it would appear to be public usage, it would be cool to have that painting associated with the site as it has become a meme in itself.

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BTW any such ideas I have would only be implemented using shitty mspaint and poorly so please everyone feel free to use these ideas if you like, I just want this place to have a cool forum banner.

 

[GooseActual]

I had two ideas, good or bad, here they are!

1: the general shape of the Ark from halo3. Not sure if that falls into trademark territory but I wasn’t sure how else to personify a haven, but what is an ark other than a mobile haven? Also space and sci fi related which is why we’re all here in the first place. Just the general shape. No details.

2: a drum with a gavel on it. May be a bit tongue in cheek but as it is a drumhead that landed us here initially why not own that shit?!

Just some ideas I had while driving home!

 

[Deleted member 1]

To combine the themes of Dune and the Cossack Painting, the artwork style of the failed The Mandate kickstarter game would be perfect. Perhaps someone could stylize The Reply (the Cossack painting) into an idealised form. I think the font is acceptable, if not copyrighted, regardless.

 

[Lightershoulders]

Orthodox Herbertarian and (as Es Arcanum said,) Albertus Chiseled Serif typeface are the two modified fonts closest to that of Dune. Both are modified fonts from the DUNE 2000 game using examples from DUNE as well.

Neither, from my brief search, are copyrighted.

I'll give it a crack and see what I come up with. You've given a fair amount of time.

Not sure about the art style of The Mandate, to be honest this is the first I have ever heard of that.

 

[Deleted member 1]

It was an interesting concept (Romanovs in space!) that was badly executed, and which in the end everyone only lost money on, and went nowhere. But it did produce some nice artwork and music in the meantime.

 

[Deleted member]

It's such a shame that fell through, it sounded awesome.

 

[Lightershoulders]

I am going to have to withdraw from the logo contest for being unable to access my laptop or my Bamboo pad for a month or so.

 

[Eagle One]

Other information that is necessary... What are the dimensions we are working with? I'd like to know both the logo and the banner dims, please.

 

[*THASF*]

Oh my god, @Es Arcanum, you had the same exact idea that I did, right down to the same exact Ilya Repin painting.

I'm not at my rig, just this dumb laptop with no Photoshop, but I'll post a banner-ized version of that pic later.

EDIT: Alright, here we go:

The font is RM Albion and it's marked free for commercial use:

RM Albion Font · 1001 Fonts

Download RM Albion Font · Free for commercial use · A modular take on the classic Old English font

www.1001fonts.com

 

[Vargas Fan]

This is Sietch Tabr from the Sci Fi channel miniseries, something like that could be worthwhile. That sort of aesthetic.

 

[UltimatePaladin]

Hm.

Eh. Might as well give it a go.

I'm a fan of simple designs versus complex ones. The main thing I was inspired by was the shape of the columns of Sietch Tabor. I've got a vague idea that I want the name to be in between those columns, but something seems missing to me. Thoughts?

 

[FriedCFour]

This needs to be updated for the reward, and preferably with a site banner @Empress_Zoe

 

[UltimatePaladin]

Trying something else.

Abandoned the columns from the original idea. Capitalized "The Sietch", making the text stand out a little more. The biggest change here was that I added in a sort of "S" shape line, separating the two words.

I like this one a little better (doesn't have as much empty space as the previous one,) but I feel like I'm stealing this from something. Thoughts?

 

[Emperor Tippy]

Note that you must have ownership of whatever you offer up and license it to BAM.

 

[FriedCFour]

Yes, we also need a site banner, and the reward is a year’s free Hetman subscription.

Just so that's clear that means you get your own private subforum on top of all other benefits.