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New logo ?

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Hi all,

A new logo has been kindly created for the Team by one of our new members, wkdwill, and I was wondering if anyone would like to comment on it.

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The old logo has stood the test of time for ages now, and it shows, in a very simple way, who we are. Does the new logo "work" better ?

Anyone care to weigh in with comments on the new one? (Non-antagonistic comments would be best !!)

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Re: New logo ?

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Hi

Really like it, though looking at both, they do seem to promote a 'space' theme - probably harking back to when BOINC was just SETI and Einstein. How you could incorporate everything that BOINC is involved in (Biology, physics, maths for example) might be a bit too much to have in a single logo (I seem to have talked myself out of any change now :-) ).

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Re: New logo ?

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Hi all,

Constructive comments received :)
I can see what you mean about the space theme, let me have a play and see what I come up with, I'll try to get the background to look like a network of some sort, maybe just nodes with lines between them?

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So after a little messing around and being unable to come up with a network node map type image that I liked, I decided to try something different, here's the result
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Constructive criticism welcomed :text-feedback:

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Re: New logo ?

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Hi Will,

Very nice logo, bright, clean and specific. Thanks for the work.

I like the network type map although I think it would be better slightly if it was sort of UK centered but stretching out to cover the rest of the world. A little like airplane flight maps from a specific airport? To imply that we start here but we crunch in these destinations?

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Hi Mark,

I like your thinking, let me have a tinker with it.

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So, I've had a little tinker with the image and this is what I have so far, not as bright as before but the lines I would like to put on the "map"
wouldn't show up with the white background.
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Re: New logo ?

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Hi Will

Thanks for the new logo's....certainly gives us something to think about (ie changing the logo).

Personally, I prefer the white background version at the moment, if only because the BOINC logo stands out more...on the darker background, it sorts of blends in so, only UK and Team stand out.

You don't need to change anything for now and perhaps, let's see what other ideas people can suggest - otherwise, you'll be tweaking and changing logo's for the next year !!

(And of course, if any one else wants to try out their creative skills on this, then feel free...)

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I had the same thought about the Boinc logo, leave it with me, I'll try to lighten it up a bit.
Once something like this gets in my head, I'm like a dog with a bone.

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Slight revision to the colours, had to play around with some effects to get everything to stand out as the text definition was lost.
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Hi

Oh I like that! Very crisp and bright! Think you've cracked it!
Well done!

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Hi Will

My only comment is that the website URL would be better as:

ukboincteam.org.uk/newforum

This is because:
a) the www is unnecessary
b) The website isn't used for much (these days) and ideally I'd prefer to promote the forum

Otherwise, the graphics look really bold and clear.

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Comments received and understood, how does this one look?

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Hi Will

That looks really good (IMHO).

An an option (and perhaps some might prefer), can you reduce the size of the "world projection" (in the grey) such that it looks smaller and then make the blue "UK" graphic a little smaller so that all of the UK (inc more of Scotland and also the southern/western parts of Wales/Devon/Cornwall) also fit into the height of the banner.

My idea is partly nicked from the Man from U.N.C.L.E. logo perhaps

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where the foreground circle is replaced by the image of UK - no need for a man in his suit+gun either !!

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Hi Tim,

Hold that thought, I've had an idea.

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And here's the idea

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The white network lines aren't as clear but I can work on that.

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Or the UK could be navy like this.

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Hi

I'm not sure about that now. UK map looks too domineering - we've taken over Africa and are coming for America! The Blue version looks too skinny!

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Thanks for the input Mikee, here's a possible solution.

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Now that's the sort of thing I was thinking of originally. Looking good.

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I've tried to make the lines terminate in the rough location for some Boinc projects, couldn't find the locations for all of them so added a couple to make it look a bit better, most are in the US so it was a bit lopsided.

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That's a lot of effort, I would have just used a standard one from an airline!
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wkdwill wrote:Thanks for the input Mikee, here's a possible solution.

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Hi Will

I REALLY like this...although my one (minor) criticism, is that with the UK now just a red blob, how would it look if it was reduced in size by 50% or even 75% - as the current logo is used in/on a number of project websites, where we don't have "control" of the size (as their websites scales the image to fit their own page design).

But as I say, that's a minor thing and there's no reason to say that this is the final version, as it could be used in a number of different ways, depending on where it was going to be seen.

Oh - I've just had another thought - could others think that this is a plan for the mass emigration of everyone post-Brexit (showing destination cities)? Or maybe it's a "tip of the hat" to the last few scenes in the film "War Games" showing the flight paths of all the ICBM's ?? (either incoming to UK or outgoing to nuke the rest of the world !!)

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Haha ICBM's, the thought did cross my mind when I was drawing the lines, I could add a few going between the project points on the map :)

I could also increase the red blob slightly to see how that looks :)

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Increased the amount of network links to include links between projects and increased the size of UK to make it more visible when the image is reduced in size.

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Hi

Well I quite liked version 4 but version 9 (this one) is looking even better - but I'm easily impressed! :-)

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Hi all

Watch this at about the 5 min 20 sec mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCpVpIBqaJg

I'm gonna move to Australia !!

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So after looking at this logo for a while a couple of things started to niggle me, I've adjusted the UK spacing to reveal more of the union jack and I've changed the weight of the website url text, re-aligned things and this is the result.

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The tweaks have improved an already good logo Will, I like it.
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wkdwill wrote:So after looking at this logo for a while a couple of things started to niggle me, I've adjusted the UK spacing to reveal more of the union jack and I've changed the weight of the website url text, re-aligned things and this is the result.

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Hi Will

Sorry - should have replied earlier.

I can't think of a way to improve on that so, if no-one else objects, I'd be more than happy to adopt this as the new Team logo.

Unless I hear to the contrary, (from other members) I'll look to introduce this as of 1st Jan 2017, across all the projects that I have any control over.

regards and many thanks for your efforts.
Tim
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