I work with a guy who is starting an audio production company. He is interested in a well made logo for the company’s business cards, etc.
He is starting the company with a childhood friend who used to be his neighbor. When they were young, they would hop the dividing fence between their houses so much, it became bent.
Hence the name of the company: “BentFence” productions.
I may be using the company at some point for some post-audio services for a uni movie I am hoping to make, so I thought I would help him out with finding a really well done logo.
I know a lot of you are really talented in this field, so if you have an extra bit of time, let’s see what you can do.
‘BentFence’ is one word with caps like so <---- and ‘productions’ would preferably be small and secondary to the main title: BentFence. He was also thinking that if the imagery of a bent fence itself could somehow be incorperated, it would be ideal.
Thanks in advance to anyone who offers up their graphic designing talents.
I’m in my first year graphic design at college.
I used to look at these logo things thinking, cool I’ll do this. Now I see how much work can really go into it and realize that any logo I’ve created in the past sucks.
None-the-less, I’ll try it.
I know other people are going to come in here and offer some free ones. How about you give us a time limit on the free ones before you start looking to pay someone?
Say how about this time next week you’ll start looking into paying people?
I’m not that knowledgeable about this sort of thing, so I might not be using the right words…
Shouldn’t the end result – ideally – be a vector-based image? That way, it can scale to any size. The logo could end up being used in any of these places –
web site
letterhead
business cards
brochures and other slick printed material
pens and other promotional give-aways
advertisements
silk-screened or embroidered on a t-shirt
printed on the door panel of his company vehicle (you can have stuff printed on a big sheet of vinyl that has a magnetic backing)
Some design tools, like Adobe Illustrator(?) are vector-based (meaning that the shapes are described mathematically) and others, like Photoshop, are bitmap-based. The vector-based images scale to any size. But obviously, if you stretch a bitmap, it will look grainy. If you can’t produce a vector-based image, then I suggest a very LARGE bitmap. If it’s a Photoshop file, you can’t expect him to pay $600 for Photoshop, so you should produce bitmaps of varying sizes. But also give him the Photoshop file, so he can manipulate it himself if he ever needs to (he can pay someone to do it or buy Photoshop). It’s always good to have the layers, too. When he sends artwork to a printer (meaning a company that creates printed materials), the printer will prefer the original artwork such as the Photoshop or Illustrator file.
In any event, kudos to the people who are offering their services. Even if the guy doesn’t end up selecting your artwork (be prepared for that case), your submission may give him some great ideas. If he ends up choosing to get it done professionally, he may use your ideas as a starting point. Having a base set of ideas will jump-start the process and save the graphic artist’s time, thus saving the guy money. You may lead him in an artistic direction he may not have thought of. Have fun. I’m quite artistically challenged, so I will not embarrass myself by participating.
I think it is a good idea to wait another five days or so and see what comes in, then I’ll start contacting those people who offered their services at a fee. Thanks very much to those who are helping out.