Thursday, June 22, 2006

12 Seahawks Street Logo Contest

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Fellow Seahawks faithful,

As you may have observed, a few months ago 12 Seahawks Street underwent a significant and needed facelift. Part of the transformation included a collection of randomly occuring mastheads, all part of a collection of about 45 designs created and donated by members and visitors. If you haven't seen the full gallery, you can check it out here.

If you had a part in designing that, I personally thank you. Once again, the collective power of #12 was much greater than the contribution of any one person. It gave the site a much more personal feel, but without making the site look like a 6th grade project, and it also kept the site visually interesting.

It's time to take this a step further! One of the things I discovered during all of this, is that 12 Seahawks Street does not have a clearly identifiable, permanent logo. Persons contributing their own mastheads were forced to choose a font, try to arrange it in the best manner they knew how, and then include it in their project. The results were nice, but lacked the consistency that is desireable in a professional looking site.

So I would like to present to you an NEW banner contest, in two parts: 1) The logo design, and 2) restart the banner project with the new logo.

And so it begins-- would you be able to help? Feel free to explore your creativity. I will only give a few minor, creative parameters:

  • The logo must contain the full spelling of "12 Seahawks Street"

  • The logo must have a very simple, single color background, so the logo can be easily cut and pasted into new mastheads for the second part of the contest.

  • It would be good to create the logo in two colors; one with a lighter color to paste into a dark background, and vise versa. Another option would be to have light lettering with a dark outline. Both suggestions are in order to provide a legible contrast when combined with the banner.
I thank you in advance! This is always fun. I'll be working on one, too. Post your efforts in this thread in the SeahawkBlue forums as an attachment, and I'll add a voting thread later.

GO SEAHAWKS!!!

9 comments:

  1. I was going to suggest a logo for the street. It definately needs one, to reflect it's inherent
    coolness.
    Great idea blue.
    I might work on one if time permits.

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  2. When does the contest end? I'm returning from Hawaii on Thursday, so next weekend would be fab.

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  3. There was no set time - Next weekend it is!

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  4. I'll be able to work on one this week... but won't be able to start till tonight... oh well... Hope it's cool.

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  5. Your stuff has been very cool in the past, Holo... Thanks!

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  6. I wouldn't mind more time, myself. How about pushing it back? (By next weekend I meant after next weekend.)

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  7. C/K,

    For you, I'll wait until the cows come home.

    (No offense, timmy!)

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