195 replies to this topic

[jayhoz]

Let's go with an animated GIF of a dancing Wally bear. Maybe there is a way to incorporate audio. We could have the Fenway Peanut guy yelling "Get your bag of salty nuts heeeyaaa"

[Jody Reeds Well]

I enjoy that the right hand of the H makes the rounded top of the bat barrel. I think the rest of the letters need to be rounded to make it more shapely. Also, you could consider making the second S the ball as that would be the sweet spot on the bat.

Overall, the bat design is the best concept in this thread.

Edited by Jody Reeds Well, 08 March 2011 - 11:15 AM.

[Curtis Pride]

What about a glove-and-ball motif that can be used as a standalone logo, in a pennant and in a banner?

On second thought, maybe not:

[czar]

So we have a bat, a ball, the name of the website and a pennant? Seems a bit much when you consider the most iconic logos are dead simple.

Because when I think SoSH, I think multi-billion dollar commercial industry.

The glove idea seems excessive and adding taglines and pennants and other baseballs and Dustin Pedroia caricatures seems amateur.

I'd like to see what someone with exp. in graphic design (someone here or an outside mercenary) could do with the ball/bat logo. The concept is actually quite clever-- I think it would be 10x better if it didn't look like something straight out of MS Paint with the same line weighting.

BTW if nobody volunteers we could pay someone as well.

Boom.

What about incorporating spike's pennant idea and flipping the bat around, but keeping the letters the same. That way it fits well on a pennant and the big S is at the barrel of the bat.

Part of the cleverness of the design (to me) is how the S and H are part of the background design itself. Flipping the bat around pretty much removes that and just results in SOSH written over the top of a bat.

Edited by czar, 08 March 2011 - 11:43 AM.

[Bucknahs Bum Ankle]

Part of the cleverness of the design (to me) is how the S and H are part of the background design itself. Flipping the bat around pretty much removes that and just results in SOSH written over the top of a bat.

I think if it were done right, the first S (ball) would look like it's coming off the barrel of the bat. And it would fit better on a pennant background, if we were to go that way. The original way, the first S (ball) looks like it's been fisted off the handle. I do like the way the curved H depicts the end of the bat though. So perhaps the suggestion of the second S being the ball is best and just forget about the pennant.

[AlNipper49]

I'm in jayhoz camp. I prefer very simple logos and feel a rookie mistake is most sox blogs have some logo which consists of 1. Red Sox font and 2. some baseball logo.

I'm a haughty fuck and very conceited about this site. I think the content stands on its own. The previous logo had no baseball theme (it was hand-drawn by Sam, I had to pay some dude to clean it up as much as we did, just to make it transferable to print and look *somewhat* presentable).

with that said, I'm hearing what people are saying and agree that the "H" in the bat is pretty neato

[mt8thsw9th]

That bat is going to absolutely shatter.

[JohntheBaptist]

I like the bat logo.

The fact that some of you are fussing about how the ball is not hitting the sweet spot of the bat is... I actually don't even have words for it.

Edited by JohntheBaptist, 08 March 2011 - 12:35 PM.

[mt8thsw9th]

The fact that you're fussing about an obviously sarcastic comment is...

[JohntheBaptist]

The fact that you're fussing about an obviously sarcastic comment is...

I actually just assume everything you post is either sarcastic or something close, so I definitely wasn't responding to you.

Changing the design entirely just so the "S"-ball doesn't appear to be fisted off the bat--is fucking funny. I could read BBA's post all day.

edit-grammar

Edited by JohntheBaptist, 08 March 2011 - 12:58 PM.

[mt8thsw9th]

I actually just assume everything you post is either sarcastic or something close, so I definitely wasn't responding to you.

Oh, thank you!

edit - that wasn't sarcastic

Edited by mt8thsw9th, 08 March 2011 - 01:17 PM.

[Bucknahs Bum Ankle]

I aim to please.

[jayhoz]

Can you guys get Righty and Lefty in there somehow. Thanxx!

[rembrat]

I was thinking that the bat handle could be a little wider and the barrel narrower and straighter, like this:



Please forgive the crude drawing... When your best drawing program is Appleworks, you just make do.

This kills it for me. THe thing I like about the orginial concept is that there is depth to it. You get the sense that the bat is whipping around. I mean, yea, it's Julio Lugo getting jammed producing a weak groundball but who cares.

[rembrat]

So we have a bat, a ball, the name of the website and a pennant? Seems a bit much when you consider the most iconic logos are dead simple.

Simple is extremely hard to achieve in design.

[jayhoz]

Simple is extremely hard to achieve in design.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try. - Homer J. Simpson.

[phrenile]

That logo is cool conceptually but can you smooth it out? It has to be clean and crisp, otherwise it looks like someone drew it and scanned it in and, most importantly, doesn't print well (the problem with SoSHLogo v1)

Edited by phrenile, 08 March 2011 - 06:03 PM.

[phrenile]

With slightly more space in the bat:

[InstantKarmma]

With slightly more space in the bat:

I like this one.

[Jody Reeds Well]

Here's my lame attempt (using MS Paint) to reorder the letters. I tried to make the 1st S part of the bat and curve the letters to give more of a circular shape. I am sure phrenile could make this look a little better, but this is just to give everyone another option w/r/t the bat logo.

[OttoC]

Here's my lame attempt (using MS Paint) to reorder the letters. I tried to make the 1st S part of the bat and curve the letters to give more of a circular shape. I am sure phrenile could make this look a little better, but this is just to give everyone another option w/r/t the bat logo.

I think I would make the red "S" smaller, more like the size of the bat barrel in the same area ot maybe even a little smaller.

[teddywingman]

I think I would make the red "S" smaller, more like the size of the bat barrel in the same area ot maybe even a little smaller.

I agree with making the ball smaller. Right now it looks like a softball.

But the relation of the ball to the bat is much better now, looks like solid contact at least.

Edited by teddywingman, 08 March 2011 - 08:00 PM.

[crow216]

No making fun. I just did this on paint for the heck of it.

Edited by crow216, 08 March 2011 - 09:38 PM.

[phrenile]

Eh:



I prefer the other:

[phrenile]

For OJ:

[DukeSox]

With the small "s" first, that handle looks pretty fucking phallic.

[BucketOBalls]

I agree with making the ball smaller. Right now it looks like a softball.

But the relation of the ball to the bat is much better now, looks like solid contact at least.

To me, it looks like the ball is coming out toward the viewer, and is bigger due to being closer. It's a nice effect.

[mt8thsw9th]

With the small "s" first, that handle looks pretty fucking phallic.

I still don't see the dick, but ... sure.

[RingoOSU]

You just quoted him.

[Orange Julia]

For OJ:

I like this one.

[Nick Kaufman]

I think the bat design is the best concept image, I am not so sure it's clean enough for a logo. An underappreciated part is the colors dirtynine chose, but again, that would require some work to fit with the site.

[RetractableRoof]

So I was thinking about what people keep saying... and what I've seen already.

1) Simple
2) Conveys the topic (baseball / discussion)
3) Can look good in various formats/media

I saw baseball threads alone above... I saw dialog/speech bubbles above...

Does something like this make sense? I know the colors aren't perfect and it needs to be tweaked / polished.

[GlenMorangie]

Although I like some of the other ideas, this is the first one that I can picture looking good on a t-shirt. My opinion is that the ultimate test is to imagine the logo somewhere other than at the top of the website and see if it stands on its own. This one works for me.

edit: screwed up the quote. Still getting used to the iPhone!

Edited by GlenMorangie, 13 March 2011 - 03:04 PM.

[AlNipper49]

I think I really like the direction that brings us. Do you have that as a PSD?

[d.ro.ho]

I think I really like the direction that brings us. Do you have that as a PSD?

I like that one too - it is simple but conveys more meaning than the previous thought bubbles. Would it be cleaner to remove the stitching (i.e., just 2 smooth red lines)?

[SoxScout]

[mt8thsw9th]

Looks like Boo from Mario.

[teddywingman]

This isn't bad at all. I think it would look better with a darker blue and some sharper lettering-- more like the logo on a ball.

[AlNipper49]

Yeah with a psd (or someone futzing) I'd make the red sticking very subtle and try an uber clean font.


Or make it look like a sperm instead of a baseball

[RetractableRoof]

Nip...

I've got it in illustrator... tell me what needs to be done... or if you want me to hand it over to someone else... I'll do that.

[AlNipper49]

Just to see what it looks like
- sticking in red really light
- cleanish font (think Cambria)

[Orange Julia]

it looks like an angry scarecrow face. Zombie scarecrow that just ate some kid.

edit: but i like it.

Edited by Orange Julia, 13 March 2011 - 06:21 PM.

[AlNipper49]

Maybe expand the blue around the baseball to form a subtle thought bubble but keep the white baseball ?

Just throwing out some thoughts. I'm used to working with unlimited revision foreigners so kick me if I get annoying

[KiltedFool]

Maybe expand the blue around the baseball to form a subtle thought bubble but keep the white baseball ?

Just throwing out some thoughts. I'm used to working with unlimited revision foreigners so kick me if I get annoying

Just noticed this thread, random thoughts:

The bubble designs from the paid designers all remind me of tech company logos, like "Intel Inside" or the Pentium logos.

The batsman from the early pages looks a lot like the logos pharma companies use.

The SoSH bat and ball or the thought bubble ball both have promise, both of them the right depiction of the stitching makes the difference IMO, and it'll be hard to get a depiction that scales right. The stitches should show as a string of chevrons with a faint red line down the center rather than a curved set of football laces. Several of the stitch designs look more like heavy surgical stitches than the seams on a ball. But the more accurate looking stitch won't scale up by size or resolution very well, it becomes a solid red line at some point.

Similarly the stylized bat and ball I like, but would make the baseball S the faint red stitching I discussed above and make the bat and other characters the dark blue Nick Kaufman used upthread, as that color is more akin to the dark blue the Sox use.

Nick Kaufman's mockups are awesome, the one with the red letters finely traced out with a white border does a great job of evoking the Red Sox without hitting you over the head with it. Not using the pointy edges like sfip's font has is IMO a great nod to subtlety and keeps it clean.

Also had a thought, the speech bubble baseball we've been discussing I think Al's thoughts on the stitching are similar to mine, and I like the idea of an uber clean font too. What about trying to find a font that is very clean and simple but also evokes being a signature on the signed baseball? That's a hard combination to find I'd guess, but worth thinking about.

[saintnick912]

That ball as speech bubble is the best one yet. I agree that some experimentation with fonts is in order, but it passes the "t-shirt test".

I'd also play with the shade of blue in the font and in the outline of the ball, the border in particular may look ok with something like the color of the quote tags on here.

The previous speech bubble ones looked like they belonged on the door of some Twitter-based startup.

The bat idea is cool but I think it would be hard to make it "pop" at small sizes.

[AlNipper49]

RR has revised the ball logo one. It's evolving awesome IMHO

[AlNipper49]

from a caring member, who I'll leave to himself to name himself. I have another user who shot me stuff offline who I'll try to upload their stuff

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[Lefty on the Mound]

from a caring member, who I'll leave to himself to name himself. I have another user who shot me stuff offline who I'll try to upload their stuff

I get an error when trying to open that link, Nip.

[RetractableRoof]

These are the images in Nip's link...

[mt8thsw9th]