Sarah O’s logos

1) www.overstock.com The size of the font on the top line is different from the bottom line. The bottom line is smaller than the top so that the website’s purpose is able to fit.

2)  www.godaddy.com The font is much more casual to create a more “now” effect. The logo is interesting and uses size and color to attract people to it’s site.

3) www.gurl.com The typography is distinct and original. I haven’t seen a font like this. The letters are bold with a teal background. Since the letters are lighter than the background, it is not overpowering. In addition, the “G” is lower than the “url.” It makes it more eye catching and interesting.

Logos-Kayleigh

The logo that I found was the Nike logo. This logo is worldly known and incredibly popular although simplistic. On the Nike site, the logo is small, probably because everyone usually thinks of the logo rather than the name.
http://www.nike.com

Another logo I found was the Zales diamond company logo. The A in the word is carved out to give the appearance of an actual diamond. I thought this was interesting because its depicting what it is selling through the title.
http://www.zales.com

The last logo I looked up was the ESPN logo. The logo is simply the title with a line through it. I thought it was quite simplistic and boring to be honest. However, since most people are familiar with ESPN, I thought it was okay that they didn’t go too artsy with it.
http://www.espn.com

Logos by Mike

The YouTube logo has become a classic icon recently. The logo is great because the logo itself represents what service they offer (with the picture of a TV around the word “tube”).  The san-serif font adds to it because if it was in serif font I think that it would make it look too formal.

I really dont like the myspace logo but I am only using it as a reference to how a logo can sometimes be too simple.  They also use a san-serif font and only have a picture of a couple “stick figures”.  The colors are plain and simple.  Myspace could add something to it to spice it up a bit.

Lastly, the skype logo I thought took simple text (also san-serif) and spiced it up very well.  The text is even well known, being helvetica.  They bolded the text and colorized it in a special way which adds to the logo and puts it on a different level at least compared to the myspace logo.

Cy on Logos

http://www.jazzstl.org/images/jatblogo.jpg

This logo for a concert venue in St. Louis combines both classic and futurist elements: the font is simple and sans serif,
but the light blue colors, lower case, and missing dots of the ‘j’ and ‘i’ make the logo fresh. The building is a sketch of their ’store front’ down in Grand Center.

http://www.jalc.org/jazzED/edimages/jalc_logo.gif

This logo is all futurist. The bold, thick and colorful ‘a’ is in stark contrast to the thin and tall black outer letters. The tag line ‘at lincoln center’ is parallel to the diagonal of the ‘z,’ creating a completely modern look.

http://www7.toysrus.com/images/v2006/topnav/comboLogo.gif

Seeing the other examples of Softie logos made me think of Toys R Us and its big round bubble letters.

Logos- Micaela

The Skype logo was very light and bubbly. It was in the shape of a cloud with light blue and white colors. They used Helvetic font which was originated in the 1950’s and hugely popular in the 20th century. The font reads well and is easy on the eye which is all due to the large x-height. The bubbly look made me feel comfortable and interested in what the telephone company had to offer.

Xanga is a weblog community. Thier logo was perfect for their demographics and a wonderful branding tool. They used Trade Gothic font. Even though the logo seemed simple with black font color, the rainbow squares above the lettering brought out the diversity aspect. I felt as if the logo was very inviting and encouraging friendliness and family.

YouTube is a video sharing website. Thier logo was extremely simple but got thier seemingly point across. They used Alternate Gothic #2 font. I think that their goal was to be straight forward. But with making the word “tube” in red says something. I believe that You tube can be very dirty and rotten and the red color speaks out very loudly.

Logos

The first logo I picked was Mozilla FireFox. It does alot with just two elements and has a very grabbing color scheme. The second logo I picked was the SlingBox logo, which is a lower case n in sans serrif font. It’s comprised of eight white circles forming the n in a red box. It’s simple by attractive. The third logo I picked was the XM radio logo. It’s a captial x and m in sans serriff font, enclosed by 3 sets of parenthesis that get larger as each set is added. I like it because it’s very simple and furturastic looking.

www.slingbox.com   www.xmradio.com

Tyler’s Logos

The first logo that I liked is for PureVolume.com. Although the typeface has small letter spacing, it compensates by having a rather large punch width and X hight and uses color to separate the words. The small equilizer graphic makes the site’s purpose clear.

I also like the logo for PhotoBucket.com. Its tont seems to me to be a new take on a retro-futuristic style. So like… the NEW, OLD-Future??? Yeah, that doesn’t even make sense. To me, it’s a new play on what was futuristic in the past. Maybe an updated version of the retro style that might have been seen on some 80s techno movie. Or, like the old standard font on the first computers… you know, the ones with black screens and green text. Also, it has just enough color to make it interesting and eye-catching.

Last is the logo for Campfire. Its font seems fairly standard, but I really like the graphic in this one. It’s clearly a campfire, but it makes me want to know what the site it about. It makes me want to click the link to find out more.

One characteristic of all these websites is that their logos aren’t overly-stated on their homepage. They’re all just chilling in the upper-left, as they should, but none are the main focus of the page. None are made to be the focal point of the page itself, but perhaps more to draw the attention of someone who is linking from another page.

Logos

I have personally been a bigger fan of those “futuristic” types of logos. The ones that dare to be different and are out of the ordinary. I like it when a company like to take a chance at something very basic. “LastFM” had a very cool design on the site of the reading. Its a new look that no one really has seen before. I also like the Nike Swoosh. I have no idea what it really is. It could be just a mess up of a design and they just went with it and it works. Its small enough to put anywhere and it still looks like the logo. I think that Google could have done alot more with their logo. They are a big name search engine and they have a very basic looking logo, which changes during holidays. I know its fine the way it is but I just personally thought they could do better.

Chad’s Logo Picks

The first logo I liked was the one for LinkedIn. I just started using this site today after I was invited to it by my content manager. It uses a sans-serif font and isn’t too busy. The “in” of the logo is enclosed in a box which is a nice, unobtrusive touch. Simple and direct, overall.

Penny Arcade’s logo abandons a lot of the guidelines mentioned in the Sitepoint article: All caps, serif font, small punch width. Regardless, the soft glow of both the letters and the orange and blue oval appeal to me and is instantly recognizable to many of there readers (including myself), so I dig it.

The logo for Shoutwire is another minimalist approach that conveys the point of the site to me pretty intuitively. When I see the word “wire”, I think newswire, although “shout” is admittedly a tougher sell in regards to sharing. The font, Agency Bold, is distinct enough that a lack of anti-aliasing on the user’s end won’t ruin the logo and the letters are big enough and distinct enough in order to easily make them out.

For the Filter Assignment on Altered Image-Micaela

The effect I was trying to achieve with my picture was a loneliness, unsure, uncertaintly, or unaware atmosphere. I used the motion blur filter to create a sense of uncertainty. I used the mosaic tiles filter to create a puzzle type looking picture. Lastly, I used the sharpen edges filter to really expose the different pieces of the tiles to propose and explain how all the pieces come together to make a puzzle. The goal of my art work and text was to establish a picture of loneliness and worry, but that if you push through, the pieces will come together and fit perfectly into the puzzle of life. I wrote the text in hopes of using emotion to up lift someone that might be down in the dumps. This assignment was fun and interesting. If the two parts of this project had been separate, then I could have thought that the effect of the picture was to show sadness or lonelines with no happiness. With just the text I could have assumed that the art work might have been brighter with a happier atmoshpere. But with the two together it shows that with sadness comes happiness because things seem to work out at the end of the day.