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Yeah, I know, it's a bit late... 'twas supposed to be done by the weekend, but hey, I'm only human... so pick the one ya'll like more...

http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-logo.gif
http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-logo2.gif

And the possibilities for the clothing and the website are...

http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-small001.gif
http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-small002.gif
http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-small003.gif
http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-small004.gif
http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-l001.gif
http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-l002.gif
http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-l003.gif
http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-l004.gif

Leigh, I like the plain ones best. Maybe it's my twisted sense of humour, but seeing the "users" underneath the D70 I can see the drug squad seeing us and thinking "look at that smartarse, advertising he uses D70, lets bust him". Though in some cases here Nikon could be called an addiction. (Not mentioning you Birddog)

I'd boil and inject a D70 into my blood stream if it didn't need so much boiling and wasn't 2000 a hit.

Edit: Woohoo! 42nd post! In Cubicle No. 42! I'm not sure if I'll ever post again...

I like D70-l002 the best - would go well on a black T-shirt

Woah, information overload! Nice work there Leigh, I'm so totally undecided, so whatever's fine with me... Just a thought, shouldn't there be a Nikon reference somewhere?

JordanP wrote:I like D70-l002 the best - would go well on a black T-shirt

Me to

With the Nikon logo, one like Onyx’s avatar would look good on one of the sleeves me thinks

Cheers
Ray

Leigh!

Those are excellent works from you, thanking for your time to make a big contribution to the community!!!

I also like the plain one D70-l002 , it'll show and matching well on dark colour of polo shirt and cap (Black/ yellow/ red/ dark blue/ white).
There's no bright yellow of Nikon traditional logo, but we like them coz we are not going to do the free advertising for.

Summer is approaching, we need to make up our mind on the logos and colour of the cloth. Hopefully we will have those to wear on on trip to Mudgee. We might select 2 difference designs (logo).
What do you think?

Birddog114 wrote:I also like the plain one D70-l002 , it'll show and matching well on dark colour of polo shirt and cap (Black/ yellow/ red/ dark blue/ white).

Oddly enough, I like this one too. It's simple, but very usable for pretty well all of out putposes, I believe I think it would look great on a cap, and. keeping it smallish, either on the sleeve or as a pocket panel on a polo shirt.

I also think it's ideal for stuff like the neckstraps and such.

I also like D70-logo.gif, but I think I prefer the simplicity of D70-l002.

Hey... we dont all live in sydney

MHD wrote:Hey... we dont all live in sydney

We could swap different icons into the centre of those first two.

A banana for Coffs Harbour, a hamburger for Surfers Paradise ....

MHD wrote:Hey... we dont all live in sydney

Hey,
If my son goes to ANU next year then, I'll see you often, will I?

gstark wrote:...a hamburger for Surfers Paradise ....

Is this a Queensland joke I'm not getting?

Onyx wrote:

gstark wrote:...a hamburger for Surfers Paradise ....

Is this a Queensland joke I'm not getting?

Not really ... but I was trying to think of something iconic for SP and that was about the best I could come up with while still keeping it somewhat innocent.

What is he looking at struding? Is he moving into a college?

Birddog114 wrote:

MHD wrote:Hey... we dont all live in sydney

Hey,
If my son goes to ANU next year then, I'll see you often, will I?

As MHD said, we don't all live in Sydney, so the bridge / opera house imagery might be a bit off putting for other states (and ironically, as I type this, I am sitting in our Sydney office looking straight out over said bridge and operahouse!. Very nice it is too)

However, something slightly less statecentric might be good - I am still waiting for another Melbourne member who actually post something!!!!!

All that said, the work done so far is excellent

cheers

MHD wrote:What is he looking at struding? Is he moving into a college?

Birddog114 wrote:

MHD wrote:Hey... we dont all live in sydney

Hey,
If my son goes to ANU next year then, I'll see you often, will I?

Don't know yet! he's looking his way down there!

How about money on the Queensland one, in recognition of what you won't have after visiting Surfers Paradise?

However, even if ya'll don't live in Sydney, point out to me some icons from places like Canberra (Besides the PM; I don't want to have to go about redrawing Johnny's head because with both the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, I've redrawn those digitally...), Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, etc.

Umm... I could make that yellow Nikon logo turn to black and white with either the Nikon in black lettering or white and the rest of the image to suit... it wouldn't take me long I'd venture.

Edit: Bugger. My 43rd post. Guess I'll have to keep posting!

Greg B wrote:(and ironically, as I type this, I am sitting in our Sydney office looking straight out over said bridge and operahouse!. Very nice it is too)

Greg,

I expect you'd be worried if you were on Collins St or St Kilda Rd, and that was your view.

Who else is in (or near) the city today?

Lunch meeting, anyone ??

Nnnnsic wrote:Umm... I could make that yellow Nikon logo turn to black and white with either the Nikon in black lettering or white and the rest of the image to suit... it wouldn't take me long I'd venture.

But the Nikon logo would be subject to copyright. I'm happy to keep with a more generic D70 only ...

Therein lies the problem and why I didn't actually do it.

Mind you, so does the D70 logo.

Nnnnsic wrote:Therein lies the problem and why I didn't actually do it.

Mind you, so does the D70 logo.

Sssssshhhhhhhhhhh .....

Nikon would be mad to sue over us using the D70 logo...

hellooooooo! can anyone say "free advertising"?

hmmmmm

MHD wrote:Nikon would be mad to sue over us using the D70 logo...

hellooooooo! can anyone say "free advertising"?

hmmmmm

No, no free advertising here!!! No Nikon Logo here!!!
The D70User/ D70Forum will be fine same as Nikonian.org

gstark wrote:

Greg B wrote:(and ironically, as I type this, I am sitting in our Sydney office looking straight out over said bridge and operahouse!. Very nice it is too)

Greg,

I expect you'd be worried if you were on Collins St or St Kilda Rd, and that was your view.

Who else is in (or near) the city today?

Lunch meeting, anyone ??

I don't know if I would be worried Gary, but I would be mighty surprised!

Unfortunately I have a client function for lunch today, otherwise a lunch meeting would be good. Maybe next visit.

Like Nikonians, I'm going to have to stick something like there "don't sue us" bit.
Theirs goes:

Nikon®, Nikonos® and Nikkor® are registered trademarks of Nikon Corporation.

Nikonians® is a registered trademark of Nikonians.org

nikonia.com, nikonia.net, nikonian.com, nikonian.net, nikonians.com, nikonians.net,
nikonians.org, nikonians-images.com and nikonians-images.org are not associated with Nikon Corporation
nor with any of its subsidiaries or affiliates in any way.

Something like that, no doubt.
But for the t-shirt, I'm sure we can get away with it...

While I'd agree that Nikon would be daft to get pissy over the logo with it being used as free advertising for the device, it wouldn't surprise me for them to get pissed.

Seen that most people like the simple design and don't want a state specific logo, how about something like this?



I'm no designer but if you like the Idea then you can have one of our experts work on it. May be make the map of Australia a bit more abstract.
And if you have a problem with the nikon colors, you can change that as well.

How it's country specific Phil What about the guy from Bristol, England?

phillipb wrote:Seen that most people like the simple design and don't want a state specific logo, how about something like this?



I'm no designer but if you like the Idea then you can have one of our experts work on it. May be make the map of Australia a bit more abstract.
And if you have a problem with the nikon colors, you can change that as well.

Phillipb,
This is another ideas, nice work and thoughts also. It means a lot.

Please note: With the embroidery, the more details of the logo or design, it won't show up all the meaning or its characteritics, the more simple logo we created the more easily setting up and will be look nice on polo and cap.

People see the logos they knew that we are Aussie D70 User or D70 Down Under, perhaps there's a boomerang or a kangaroo attached to that.

For overseas members, we should proud that we have a friendly, creatively and a very happy forum in this Island.

That could work on a t-shirt, but when you reduce it all down to fit on a cap or neckstrap, the text portion would become unreadable, I'm afraid; there's too great a difference in the relative sizes of the components.

OTOH, there's no reason why, for instance, an outline map could not replace the opera house in small001.gif. I'll ask Leigh to do that and post it here.

That said, I think it's not an unreasonable proposition to suggest that both the Opera House and the Coathanger, whilst being Sydney icons, are also recognised internationally as being Australian icons, in the same way as the Statue of Liberty is synonymous with both NYC and the USA, and the Eiffel Tower with both Paris and France.

Finally, I still prefer the cleaner lines and inherent simplicity of d70-l002.gif.

1. Gary, I agree about d70-l002.gif it is clean and distinctive

2. I like the work from Phil, although taking note of birddog's comments, you could have the logo as presented on the t-shirt, and on the cap, have the lettering the same size as the map so that it was still readable

3. I also agree that the bridge and operahouse are recognisably Australian

4. Maybe d70-l002.gif with the addition of the word "Australia" underneath might be viable?

5. Whatever you decide, I want a cap and a t-shirt (please make large sizes) and a probably a neckstrap and I am looking forward to wearing them

cheers

What about the southern cross??

I might have to go have a play

I like the Southern Cross - that works well for us up in the North Coast.

While I like the southern cross too - nice work MHD - oddly enough, that would be as well recognised in most northern hemisphere regions as the more obvious icons.

You will have had to have lived there for a while to understand, but whereas in Oz we consider Bondi Beach to be world famous, the reality is that "world famous" means little more than "they've heard of it in England".

Us humans are a very insular lot, and while here in Oz we're perhaps better served than many in the rest of the world might be in terms of being educated in world events and the like, if you're wanting to identify yourself to the "rest of the world" (whatever that might mean) you need to do so on their terms, not your own.

Consider these two simple facts: the whole of the Australian population is exceeded by the popluation of the LA basin, and in the recent Presidential elections in Indonesia, over 150 million people cast a vote; that's three times the number of people who voted in the last US federal election.

We are but a very small link in the chain of humanity.

i had pretty boring arvo so i thought i would throw down my 2cents


what you guys think?

That an't bad

Cheers
Ray

Works for me, although you would have to have the red triangle and maybe make the d70 part bigger, but the red triangle is a must.

yeah its pretty rough, i just wanted to show my idea, i am still an illustrator noob. i agree about the d70 part and i will do a bit of an edit over the weekend

Wow, that is really nice work there Bruno, and the red triangle addition by Phil really set it off.

Although I believe it might need to shed some details (retain just the outline, for eg.) for it to scale well - big t-shirt prints to little logos on caps, etc.

Any final decision on selection of forum logo on polo and cap yet?
I want to run them into its production, time is running out!!!
Please!!!!!

My preference for caps, t-shirts, etc remains still for that second, simple one that Leigh did. It's just that it seems to me tha it will translate more easily into lots of different media with no pain.

http://www.leighlo.com/random/images/d70-l002.gif

Gary,

If you mean this one, I agree. Simplicity is always stronger, and easier between media as you have said.

Greg

Greg,

Greg B wrote:If you mean this one, I agree. Simplicity is always stronger, and easier between media as you have said.

Yep. That one.

I agree, simplicity is usually the best

Gary,
Can you print it out on the piece of paper and mail it to me, i want to send it to the Artwork people, and where does people want the logo embroidered to, e.g sleeve,upper left hand chest or???? Your recommendation and instruction please!

My vote on position, left breast.....

I think the address in the logo should be the full http://www.d70users.com otherwise users.com will get alot of hits from people wondering WTF it is when they see some of us wearing the apparrel.

Onyx wrote:I think the address in the logo should be the full http://www.d70users.com otherwise users.com will get alot of hits from people wondering WTF it is when they see some of us wearing the apparrel.

Good thought; worth bearing in mind ...

Geez Onyx, I think you have been dealing with Americans for too long

Only kidding.

Well half kidding.

So, finally we have the final selection of our logos for polo and cap. Am I correct?
I have a goal to have polo and cap by mid-Nov.

Polo:
What size do you want to have:
- X-large/ Large/ Medium/ Small
- What colour? White/ black/ Green/ dark blue/ Navy/ Yellow

Cap:
- one size fits all/ colour: Black/ tan/ dark blue

How many set (Polo & cap) is for initial order?

Need to work it out/ we're running out of time!

Please come in and raise your hand.