MCAA Logo

[Jess Puff]

Marketing plays a HUGE role!

[glenoweth]

Thanks, I was just messing around, making the fish look more cichlid like! lol.. cichlids have attitude so i though he should lol..

[rickl]

I for one would like a copy of the logo that can be scaled up further without excessive pixelization. I'm happy with the logo we have, but when scaled to t-shirt size the resolution left something to be desired.

-Rick (the armchair aquarist, part of the MCAA-South contingent )

[tradewatertropical]

I do agree with Fuzzy, Glenn and Jess. The logo needs more zest, something to make it stand out and say here we are !!!!! I would be interested in shirts or what ever if they were more apealing to the eye. Catch someones attention !!!!

[signde]

just needs to be converted to vector then it can be scaled to whatever size you want. converting to vector is pretty easy. jon may have a larger original though which may make this topic moot.

[davidtcb1]

My wife is a graphic designer and can help with this conversion if/when needed. The clean up, converting to vector, etc. Ryan, is this what you do as well?

[glenoweth]

My thing is even though the fish is a cool idea, as far as marketing its not really practical as a logo. A logo should be something that is easy to see and identify ,and that can be put on almost any thing. The fish does make a nice mascot! and can be added to things also. But as far logos go they are more mainstream. I will sketch up some examples of what I am talking about.

[signde]

Nov 10, 2011 9:11:46 GMT -6 davidtcb1 said:

My wife is a graphic designer and can help with this conversion if/when needed. The clean up, converting to vector, etc. Ryan, is this what you do as well?

i did in the past. i have a degree in graphic design and worked in that field for a while.

[glenoweth]

take in mind these are just sketches, and only took a few seconds to make up just to get the idea across. stuff that is one or 2 colors is always cheaper to get prinited on to T-shirts. Why? because they charge per color. also with logos like these that are not to crazy you can put them on almost anything. just an idea... lol were not doing crap today at work so this gives me somethign to make the time pass.

[glenoweth]

[davidtcb1]

Nice sketches Glen.

[davidtcb1]

Nov 10, 2011 11:45:01 GMT -6 signde said:

Nov 10, 2011 9:11:46 GMT -6 davidtcb1 said:

My wife is a graphic designer and can help with this conversion if/when needed. The clean up, converting to vector, etc. Ryan, is this what you do as well?

i did in the past. i have a degree in graphic design and worked in that field for a while.

Ha, I figured. Not many people know about vector conversions lol.

[fuzzylogic]

Well even though I loved Glen's sketches, I decided to pay homage to that tattoo artist who loved fish and headed to the beach. I didn't convert these because I don't have Adobe loaded on this laptop but I did spend about 30 minutes playing around just to see what that logo would look like on more of a digital scale. they aren't perfect or anything but just to give an idea of what the image could look like. keep in mind these are quite large and would look even better shrunk down a bit.
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5. Im partial to this one.

[bnoel210]

I like em

[fuzzylogic]

Oops forgot one.