Choosing coffee mug with our logos

[birddog114]

Hi All,
I selected 3 difference of coffee mugs which I'm going to have the "DSLRUsers.com" logo on them.
Do members only want one logo or two logos on the mug? Both yellow and red of DSLRUSERS.com? or just one yellow colour of DSLRUsers.com?

Any other wording attached to the logos?

I'll have the baseball caps and Polo shirt later after I finish the Straps and mugs, hopefully we will have them before Xmas 05.

Please let me know, which one do you prefer?

Style 1


Style 2:


Style 3:


Your thoughts!

P.S: Each mug cost $8.80, it's just an estimate based on the minimum of 150 units

[fozzie]

My preference is for Style 1, with yellow signage 'DSLR Users.com'

There again I am a Nikon user.

[Jonesy]

I'm only new but....

I think just one yellow logo in style 3. And thats just becasue it looks the biggest. And being a Radio Announcer you can never get a big enough mug... especially for those early morning starts!

Cheers
Jonesy

[fozzie]

Hi Jonesy,

I'm only new but....

I think just one yellow logo in style 3. And thats just becasue it looks the biggest. And being a Radio Announcer you can never get a big enough mug... especially for those early morning starts!

Cheers
Jonesy

Wouldn't you be better off with a bucket as a mug

[Glen]

As Jonesy said, the largest is probably the most useful

[birddog114]

For the Pro loop straps, price is the same as the old one and stock will be ready by mid September or end of the month.

[birddog114]

As Jonesy said, the largest is probably the most useful

Style 2 and 3 are the same size
Style 2 is matte black both in and outside.
Style 3 is gloss black both in and outside

[nat]

So, they were right - Size DOES matter

Style three is my preferred. BTW - is it the biggest?

Yellow logo would be preferred to red.


EDIT- sorry, Birddig replied while I typed slowly!

[Glen]

Birddy, I might buy one to leave at the home of the minimeets. If all the regulars did that there would be a nice collection of matching mugs for when new members came along. Obviously I am not there every week, nor are most (excluding Joe & Chryssine), so we would only need 20 or so members to have the same idea for it to work.

[HappyFotographer]

My hand up for the biggest, whatever shape it is.

A for logos I have no preference.....unless on the bottom of the mug you can put "mum is still drinking her coffee...so bugger off" then I'll take a dozen of those.

Deb

[Raskill]

Size is what matters!!!

I'll vote 3 cause it looks biggest and the yellow logo.

[Jonesy]

Fozzie,

buckets are good, but somedays a Drip straight into the arm would be so much better!.... Sorry a little off topic!

[birddog114]

Birddy, I might buy one to leave at the home of the minimeets. If all the regulars did that there would be a nice collection of matching mugs for when new members came along. Obviously I am not there every week, nor are most (excluding Joe & Chryssine), so we would only need 20 or so members to have the same idea for it to work.

We do have an option to have your name on the mug with little extra cost, same as the cap, logo in the front and your name, or nick name in the back of the cap.

[Glen]

No need for my name Birddy, I am happy for all to use it, just thought it would be very smart to have a matching set at the home of the minimeet. There are plenty I dont get to, it means others would feel comfortable using it when I am not there.

[joet]

I like No. 1 with a yellow logo

Chryssine likes No. 3 because it's "more ladylike and glossy is easier to wash up"

Forum Names sound like a good idea to me

[Glen]

IChryssine likes No. 3 because it's "more ladylike and glossy is easier to wash up"

I can see washing up doesn't worry you Joe

[Oneputt]

No.1 and forum names would be great.

[joet]

No, Glen.....I have a washing up machine and we have been married for over 40 years and when she reads this you know what sort of trouble.....

P.S. we also have a whirlpool dishwasher

PPS the chief socktucker tells me it's a Westinghouse

[stubbsy]

I like the shape of #1 the best but I'm voting for # 3 because it's glossy, yellow logo one side (red the other perhaps?

Don't need my name I know it's my mug.

[sirhc55]

Biggest

[MATT]

3

with yellow


MATT

Sure we cant get d70users??

[mitedo]

Yep 3 & yellow

[gstark]

Bottomlessest.

I prefer #1, yellow, and both logos ...

[jdear]

great idea,
do the mugs have to be black for starters?

gloss inside and outside and agreed - biggest!

JD

[BBJ]

I like Gary, like #1 with the yellow, but i am happy with what ever goes a cup is a cup.

[Hlop]

My choice is Style 3 or 2 either. Style 1 mugs are in any shop and any office. Just not really interesting

[Killakoala]

For me, i like No 3 with yellow and red writing. I can retire my 3 year old Seti@home mug.

[johndec]

Not really fussed... 1 or 3 with Yellow logo. I'll take a couple.

[kipper]

Ok so we all get this straight and for the final and last time.....

#2 and #3 are identical in size, shape etc.
Only difference is the finish, #2 is matte finish, #3 is glossy finish.


My personal preference is matte, they're more trendier. Especially in charcoal grey colours.


I quickly whipped up a rendition of what I'd like to see it as in Photoshop CS2 and 3dsmax7. The logo size is probably a bit bigger than I wanted, I'd prefer to see it a tad smaller. Excuse the quality, mug image was fairly small and the logo taken off the main page wasn't the most hi-res to work with. Give me a decent logo image (or point me to a URL to a decent size one) and I'll whip something up.

[gstark]

I quickly whipped up a rendition of what I'd like to see it as in Photoshop CS2 and 3dsmax7.

Didn't you see Leigh's rendition of these a week or so back?

[kipper]

No....you know some of us can't keep up with the volume of threads being posted a day. If they're not in the righthand column when I look then they usually get missed. If I had seen them, I wouldn't of bothered.......

[birddog114]

We did not have the black letter on the yellow background.
The one I sent to supplier is:
Yellow letter only and will print it on the cup with matte black or gloss black.
Am I correct in doing this? or have to be a yellow background?

[Manta]

Style 2
Matte is cool, gloss is too common

Yellow Logo

Name option is good.

[stubbsy]

We did not have the black letter on the yellow background.
The one I sent to supplier is:
Yellow letter only and will print it on the cup with matte black or gloss black.
Am I correct in doing this? or have to be a yellow background?

birddog

I wouldn't worry. What you've ordered is fine and matches Leigh's original layout as I recall it.

[gstark]

No....you know some of us can't keep up with the volume of threads being posted a day. If they're not in the righthand column when I look then they usually get missed. If I had seen them, I wouldn't of bothered.......

Repeat after me ...

RSS Feed ...

RSS Feed ...

RSS Feed ...

[gstark]

We did not have the black letter on the yellow background.
The one I sent to supplier is:
Yellow letter only and will print it on the cup with matte black or gloss black.
Am I correct in doing this? or have to be a yellow background?

No ... if you're following Leigh's original layout, you're in fine form.

[kipper]

Is that the evil twin to RRS?
Really Shit Stuff?

Oh and don't answer that....

Anyhow, I thought RRS feeds were just for the top news items, not every item on the website is listed in chronicle order is it? Or am I missing as to what you mean.

[gstark]

It's for whatever you, as a website owner, want it to be.

We have it so that it feeds you every new post. Consequently, there is only one reason why you can claim to have missed any post.

[birddog114]

Back to the topic!
So I'm OK to order 3 style of mugs with one logo of yellow letter on black background (the colour of the mug) of both sides of the mugs.
If we want two colours of the logo on one mug, then there's extra cost due to the printer needed to be setup with each difference ink colour.

[kipper]

But I have to be running a news rss feed program correct, and have it runnin as each new feed comes through?

[Charlie Chalk]

Sorry to Hijack, but on the subject of RSS, I'm using NewsWireLite on a Mac at work to keep up with the day to day goings on (its a little less obvious that you are 'on the web' than viewing the actual site!) but I only see the last 15 threads.

NewsWireLite refreshes the feeds every 15 minutes, so its very easy to miss a new post if I don't keep a close eye on it. Plus if its busy at the time Newswire pulls the posts off the site, and there are more than 15 new ones I only get the first 15 and miss the rest.

On the plus side, it is good how you give the full post in the RSS feed rather than just the subject line like most forums/blogs.

Is it a setting your end that increases the number of posts shown at any one time from 15 to something a little larger, or is it me that has to do something to fix it?

Cheers

CC

[kipper]

Charlie, so you have to run the program. Which is something I don't really want to do at work. Personally I'd like to see daily news, announcements by site admins, things that are important to the site put into the news section as news threads.

Have the front page as news only with a navigation on the left (with a link to the forums), and the most recent threads down the right.

But hey that's just me.

[stephen]

# 3 and yellow please but i will drink out of anything( well almost)

[Charlie Chalk]

Yep, but the program I have looks very similar to an email client, so its a far more discrete than using a web browser.

CC

[kipper]

I'm in an office with 5 people, 1 of them my boss.

He easily can tell when I'm not working.

[birddog114]

I'm in an office with 5 people, 1 of them my boss.

He easily can tell when I'm not working.

Show him the fun of this forum and he'll let you monitor it for him

[MattC]

Sorta suprising how popular mugs 2 & 3 are. Personally, I dislike them, the reason has nothing to do with asthetics but the fact that they have a narrow base and are top heavy. Waaay to easy to knock over - no fun around computers.

Cheers

Matt - Caffeine Addict

[Frankenstein]

I prefer no. 2 (I like the matte finish) - not fussed about the lettering colour etc. And the caps with logo and nickname sound great!

Frank

[kipper]

I use these kind of mugs at work all day next to a computer. Have a messy desk. They never get knocked over. Perhaps if you're clumsy they might

[MattC]

Yep, I am clumsy