[atlantaprog] Re: logo

Hi again,

A few comments re. the flash logo... all of this IMHO of course! And 
before I start, I want to say that I think what you've done, Greg, is 
WAY COOL! These comments are from my many years of experience as a 
graphic designer:

* There should be five lines (like a music staff), and I don't really 
care for the notes - too cartoon-y

* The text should be a bit more distressed looking, like it was 
written with a scratchy pen. The original text was like that. The 
idea behind my original logo is that someone has scrawled "Aria" in 
long hand over an icon of a more conservative approach to music (ie 
the music notation staff) - sort of alternative approach to writing 
musical notation - the letters "aria" ARE the notes! Our own way of 
creating and expressing music. The cartoon-y notes and the clean 
looking font interfere with that concept.

* There should be no music AT ALL! It makes the flash file load way 
too slow and it tries to pigeonhole one specific sound to "Art Rock 
in Atlanta"

* The animation need to be WAY faster. People don't like waiting for 
a flash thing to cycle before they can get to the content. (BTW, 
that's a bit of constructive criticism I would offer on the prog 
palace site as well. It gets a little tedious having to wait for the 
animation to finish before I can use the navigation links)

* No provision was made for color. In the final form, there should be 
a color scheme that carries into the website.

If everyone agrees - or at least if no one objects too strenuously... 
100% agreement is highly unlikely - I will collaborate one-on-one 
with Greg to come up with the final piece, which will then become the 
basis of the website.

AWG



>Hello all,
>
>I was looking at the latest logo's and found I favored the first one. I
>even went as far as to create one of my own using that as an outline.
>Now I'm NOT a graphics person so to create something I simply did it as
>a Flash so I came up with a little Flash animation.
>
>See what you think.
>
>http://theprogpalace.com/aria/aria.html
>
>Hope you like it,
>
>Greg

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