new polycount logo

hawken

Can I suggest writing "POLYCOUNT" in text, about 1em (16px) and using the green smiley next to it? Also ditching the tag line of "videogame art resource & community"?

My other preference would be just to have the green smiley about 32px tall in the top left corner and be done with it.

a lot of us browse at work, having polycount HUGE in some unrelated font (to the normal polycount logo) is basically an advertisement to everyone that we are browsing the web.

flaagan

You could always just block the image.

ElysiumGX

you ARE browsing the web. maybe you shouldn't be. the smiley is dumb. stop it.

k bye

adam

Mm, the slogan stays. Whether its apart of the header graphic or not is debatable.

As for the graphic - I'm really eager to see your take at (hawken*) it and would love for you to actually mock something up.

*Side note: Your msn is bugged. I was getting spammed with this message:
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hawken

sorry I use the encryption offered by Adium

Not sure where to turn it off!

dejawolf

what the hell happened here? polycounts gone all windows XP

hawken

you might as well email me Adam

headengine

I like it, 'tis cool. My only crit would be that it's a little big and overpowers the page?

Maybe if it were 60% of that size it might work better - just my opinion!

peppi

I agree that it might be a bit dominant at the moment (though that's probably a matter of taste). The fresher colour is nice for sure. Anyways, here's a cheap mockup for a lighter header.. it's got the old logo without the filler stuff, plus greentooth. Just my 2 cents.. Click

sinistergfx

Peppi's got the idea. Let's keep it clean and minimal!
All this bubbly shiny button stuff is just bleh.

Jesse Moody

I do rather like Peppis design.

rooster

i like peppis use of the old font, i dont see why we should change that

Tumerboy

Agreed.*

*but that was too short apparently. . .

Slum

agreed with rooster. I love the old font.

MoP

Yeah, peppi's is cool... nice and minimal and retro, although I agree with Per, it should be 50% bigger.

Michael Knubben

I could definately get behind Peppi's mockup. No offense to all the hard work Adam put into this, mind you. Just a matter of preference.

Frankie

Again per is wrong, percent is "out of 100", 50 out of 100 is 0.5 so 50% bigger is actually smaller. I think the logo should be 150% bigger.

rooster

i dunno man, he's saying he wants it bigger, ok by how much? by 50% of the original. it works for me.. he could *either say it should be 50% bigger, or 150% of the size it is
edit: wait wait, wtf am i defending per? frankies right

Frankie

no thats like saying I want it half bigger

rooster

i dunno man if you increase something by 100% arent you doubling it? you're not keeping it the same

Joshua Stubbles

Just make it twice as big damnit! Now shut it!

Frankie

no 100% is like saying make it 1 times as big.

Frankie

also you donno now because I just told you and explained it and even did some maths.

rooster

no you're saing increase by x ammount of the original, in this case the full value

I feel like we're keeping alive the age old polycount tradition of arguing semantics irellivant to the actual point of the thread. good times!

Frankie

ok then you can be right but per is still wrong

adam

In the word of photocopies, 100% = the same size. 200% = double the size, 50% = half the size, and so on.



Anyway, good job Peppi! Once I get the vertical design working I'll come back here and give it a whirl.

Joseph Silverman

Increase TO 100% if no change. MULTIPLY BY 100% is no change. Multiply by 50% halves the result. ADDING 50% takes half of the original number and adds, so, 150%. ADDING 100% doubles it, ie -

5(100%) + 100%(5) = 10(200%)


5(100%) + 50%(2.5) = 7.5(150%)

rooster

does anyone else get the feeling quick reply is *too quick now?

Frankie

quick reply cant be too quick thats like saying percent is too much out of a hundred

peppi

Yeah but that's not the point

Japhir

lol typical

I like peppis design too, and i still gotta get used to the new flashy shiny style

Sa74n

hah frankie is bored again
get a job ;P

Tumerboy

What's your point rooster?

Frankie you are so far wrong you can't even see right from there.

Saying "I want it bigger by half" is a perfectly acceptable way to say I want it 150% of original, or 50% larger. They are all the same.

"Make it 50% larger."
The "larger" tells you that the 50% is on top of the original size. If he wanted it half size, he would say "Make it 50%"

Joshua Stubbles

Cut it in half and then double it!

sonic

You're all insane! The new layout/logo looks great. Good job Adam.

You could give Polycounters 40 gold bars and they'd complain about the shape.

foreverendering

I like peppis mockup

MartinH

too late foreverending, this thread has now derailed 150 out of 50 divided by 1.5%

EarthQuake

i think the new logo should be 2 cats bigger. Maybe 3 if you're feeling lucky.

Tumerboy

Ferg

lets be reasonable now, people, my monitor can only handle 3.5 liters of graphics, and only when no other programs are running

rooster

but thats only one side of the equation, the overlooked question is 'can it's filter handle the more condensed graphical chunks?'

Pedro Amorim

lol
i think the someone should use the old logo but upgrade the style by 50% so its all cool and XXI centurish..

and i also like pior's design.. someone make pior's design real. stat

rooster

i like tumor's cat logo, i vote for that one

adam

Again - I'll be trying out these things once I can. I can't atm for technical reasons so sit tight.

bounchfx

I really like how it looks personally, it's sweet.

but I do agree however that it is too big. maybe half the size it is now if you are keeping the same font and design, just aligned along the bottom of the header. Peppi's design was cool too, only a little too small if only because the 'vg art resource & community' type was bigger than the site name...

you could always just put the smiley logo in the top left or right and have that be it. It'd confuse the hell out of newcomers though heh.

TWilson

I think it should look like this:




OR THIS

It had to be done.

PixelGoat

This thread is pure gold, thank you all for brightening up my morning by 50%!

Tulkamir

twilson - It's good, but I think you could push it a bit more.

Oh, I'm also quite curious as to how your sister's webcam video turned out.

Whargoul

Fuck it, drop the "O" and let's be Polycunts.

TWilson

It's YOUR sisters web cam video Tulkamir.

moose

Whargoul wrote: »

Fuck it, drop the "O" and let's be Polycunts.

lol...thats all i see everytime i look at the header up there.