[atlantaprog] Re: logo


Hello again,

Thanks Allen for your observation. After reading what you had written I
agree and you are right about the station's site menu, but after the
holidays I'll be working hard on making some changes. 

The music was an after thought and could be replaced with bits of each
band, but as you said it would take forever for someone using dialup to
hear or even see it with that size of a file. So with that I've made a
few modifications. I've removed the music, the notes. I've also added a
little color and sped it up to 10 seconds. Also once completed it won't
repeat as the other one did. I haven't changed the font yet, but that
can be easily changed. The new one is here:
http://theprogpalace.com/aria/aria1.html

and for those who haven't seen the original it is still there too.

http://theprogpalace.com/aria/aria.html

It's like Wine, it takes time, but with us all working together I'm sure
we'll find something everyone likes. 
Once again comments welcome.  

Greg

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From: atlantaprog-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:atlantaprog-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen Welty-Green
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:27 PM
To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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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