We are looking for talented individuals to help design an image or a logo for the official CobaltSS.net merchandise. Your work must be appropriate and contain “CobaltSS.net” in it. It’s open to your imagination as long as it meets the first two requirements and the image is large.


The Winner gets a free T-shirt with the Logo they designed.
Second place gets a $5 dollar McDonalds gift certificate
Third Place gets FREE Premium Membership to CobaltSS.net

Contest Ends December 17, 2004.
The CobaltSS.net staff picks the winners (5 of us)
By submitting your work, you give CobaltSS.net the right to use your images.

Email me the large file. Post a smaller img here.
Have fun :cool:

Heres my first attempt.
Just a plain beveled brushed metal style.
http://www.pbase.com/voodoosoup/image/35479962/large.jpg

More Flava
http://www.pbase.com/voodoosoup/image/35531181/large.jpg

Tomorrow I'm going to start one using an outline of the actual cobalt lettering from the rear of the car.

Looking good :thumb: Think you can put rivets in one of them? I think that would look good

Cool deal...
Please make sure you don't end it early! I'll be working major overtime from this Saturday until the end of November, so i'd like a chance to give it a try :)

are more than one image from the same person allowed?

Cool deal...
Please make sure you don't end it early!

I wont, I want you guys to take the time and do the best you can. I know we all have busy schedules.


More then one image is ok :)

glad to have you here Susan did you bring Jonathan along?

Ok, here's the next attempt.
I haven't added all of the rivets yet and I think I'm going to do the "Cobalt" part in brushed metal instead of how it looks here.

Let me know what you think.

Hmm, can't get the image tags to work tonight, here's the link to the image on pbase
http://www.pbase.com/voodoosoup/image/35572568/large

i only see a red x

dimaond plating would be cool.

hmm I guess ill try to do one

any color preferred?

any color preferred?

whatever you like

Ok, here's the next attempt.
I haven't added all of the rivets yet and I think I'm going to do the "Cobalt" part in brushed metal instead of how it looks here.

Let me know what you think.

Hmm, can't get the image tags to work tonight, here's the link to the image on pbase
http://www.pbase.com/voodoosoup/image/35572568/large

That's looking really good. Nice job man. Maybe try doing the Cobalt in the same style as the SS.net part? I like the fact that the Cobalt portion contrasts the latter with a different style, though. :)

Time is ticking away :D

i just had to get my hand in this...but yeah...
i did an actual picture that i thought would look good to replace the banner up top, along with a logo...check it...


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lets try again...

what i started with...
http://img31.exs.cx/img31/9950/redcobaltyo.jpg

lowered...
http://img31.exs.cx/img31/8648/redcobaltyo22.jpg

when im driving it...(with some love for a website)
http://img31.exs.cx/img31/1556/redcobaltyo32.jpg

looks good but looks like he only got a one legger, make more smoke coming from both sides. that will sell the LSD lol.

yeah, thats the thing...ig you look close enough there is some smoke on the other fender, but the background color makes it hard to see...the smoke you can see is on the underside of the other side...smoke is coming from that wheel too...:nuts:

wow, good work!

Do you have a high res pic like that? PM me if you need a high res of it.

Oh and I love your sig! But it is too big :D (max is 450x100)

ok, ill start using this one...is it better? and, did u want a high res pic, or are you making one available?

ok, ill start using this one...is it better? and, did u want a high res pic, or are you making one available?


if it is 100 tall then its good :)

About the high res pic, I have one available if you need it for the contest

now thats hotness :bow:

yeah i wanna enter those in the contest along with the this one...

http://img31.exs.cx/img31/6622/SS7.jpg

so yeah if they need to be in high res then thats kew...((I wanna come in third...lol))

PS: if i do finish anywhere i...id rather have premium membership more than anything...

Just checking back in... finished with the overtime & settling in after moving into our new house! Hopefully with downtime starting at work (like now) I'll get a chance to work on this.

sweet cant wait to see what you come up with....



oh and one of these days im gonna stop by to hump john just givin you the heads up

sweet cant wait to see what you come up with....



oh and one of these days im gonna stop by to hump john just givin you the heads up
Things are coming along! After an insane November at work we come to a screeching halt in December which leaves me with 2-5 hours of free time most days. Seeing as how this is the 2nd, i've worked on it for 2 days. I'll probably upload & download them to home this weekend so i can post it up soon.

Feel free to stop in to hump Jon, he probably wouldn't mind :D Mapquest says you're about 2 hours & 20 min away, a doable drive for some fun!

I've had these almost a week now, may as well post.

There's a few basic rules about logos - they should work in black & white as well as color, look good as small as on a business card or as big as on a truck. It should be easily read too.

That said, here's my black & whites.
http://img21.exs.cx/img21/5100/e8bcobaltsslogobwwtr.gif

Here are examples of color versions. It can go 1 or 2 color. I was showing combos mainly in blue & orange, so i put in the red to show what it looks like in another color.
http://img105.exs.cx/img105/7234/f5wcobaltsscolorwtr.gif

Watermarked for my protection :cool:

http://www.senencito.com/images/popup_ext_gallery01.jpg

my submittion, I can change color if you need to

Good job guys!

Stargrrrl:
So many to choose from, I am still trying to decide which one I like best. Which one is your favorite?

SenenCito:
Do you think you can mess with the lines on that a little more? Some of them are looking a little sharp. And I would love to see some of the SS colors on it.

Dman
I have an idea. Try a black and white photo of the cat with only the orange turn signals and the bowtie in color. That might look interesting. Also try some more fonts :) The image with the SS emblems is a little hard to read.

Voodoosoup
You still working on this? I really like what you started with. Try some lower and uppercase letters as well as more “brushed flavors” It would be cool to see it diamond plated as well :D

Jeff
Make something damn it! :lol:


Also, how would each one of you incorporate your work on a shirt? The shirts are going to have one large image on the back and a small image on the front.

Thanks a lot guys. Keep it up. Lets make so me bad ass shirts.

jz

im not going to make anything since ill be helping judge :p:

If you check out the black and whites, you'll see all the different designs. From there, I took my favorite 3 and just worked out different color schemes. So, you can say I've got 3 favorites. As for colors, a black & 1 color combo is my favorite. I think it looks solid & clean that way.

As for the shirt, i'd just put the logo on it. If there was an event, then that information could be added. I guess i can show by example what i can do, but with only a logo, that's what i'd slap on it :-D

You can check out the shirt i did for J-Body Magazine (http://www.xautos.net/automotive_shirts.htm), it's towards the bottom on the right, the honeycomb design. There is a front & back there.

I did some other shirts for meets when i was in a club, you can see front & back designs for one where i had complete freedom of design...
http://img22.exs.cx/img22/9673/s2bfrontandbackideas.th.jpg (http://img22.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img22&image=s2bfrontandbackideas.jpg)

For another where i was pretty much directed on what had to be done, the front was
http://img22.exs.cx/img22/244/s8rshirtfrontxsm.jpg
the back was
http://img22.exs.cx/img22/7647/s6hshirtbackfinalxsm.th.jpg (http://img22.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img22&image=s6hshirtbackfinalxsm.jpg)

If you want to see anything else, post here and i'm sure to find it tonight when i'm at work doing nothing, midnight-8am!

I need to get back on this..............

If you want to see anything else, post here and i'm sure to find it tonight when i'm at work doing nothing, midnight-8am!

I like these 3 best:

http://www.cobaltss.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=6&stc=1


Although the all blue one is my favorite, it would be nice to see one of those in all orange. I like how your design emphasizes CSS and you used our theme colors (blue and orange) :cool:

So yea, if your bored, lets see one in all orange and maybe one where you change the SS’s the a different font. Maybe something to resemble the SS badges?

Oh one last thing, maybe make the C fade on all those 3 like you have it on the 3rd all blue one?

I'm only seeing a red X, so i can't work on it until i know which ones you're talking about :cry:

Bah, so after i posted my reply, the image showed up! I'll see what i can do...

Here's the latest with labels to explain what each line is

http://img36.exs.cx/img36/7435/cobaltsscolor2wtr3jz.th.jpg (http://img36.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img36&image=cobaltsscolor2wtr3jz.jpg)

The reason that none of them have the "C" fading out is because none of the ones selected were reversed out. Without a colored area behind them, there is no way to really fade the C and make it look right. The only thing similar that i could do for that is to make a small gradient to white on the top part of the C, but it would look kind of goofy. Below is an example, you'll see that the fade doesn't really do anything except make the "C" less important

http://img36.exs.cx/img36/2258/cobaltssfadeexamp7fe.jpg

Doubt you're up now, but i'm available to do changes every Sun.-Thurs. nights midnight-8am the following morning most of this month.

Nice job starrgrrrl.

About the fading, I was actually referring to the thing around the C that looks like a big C, not the actual C in Cobalt. Sorry about the confusions

Ah, gottcha now. It's suposed to be a partial wheel. I would have done it 5 spoke like the SS has, but for the design, it was just too open & lost it's character with part missing like i have it now. I'll do the latest versions tonight at work & they'll be here by tomorrow morning.

Of the three that Jonel circled, I really like the middle one with the blue "Cobalt .net" and the red "SS". And if that orange wheel behind the "C" of "Cobalt" could be faded out I think that would look awesome.

How Can Insert My Cobalt Logo In The Reply Like The One Above:?

send it to me and i can post it for you or you could get it hosted at www.imageshack.us (http://www.imageshack.us)

Here are the ones i posted the last time, but now with the orange fade on each one

http://img18.exs.cx/img18/2171/cobaltsscolor3wtr4mi.th.jpg (http://img18.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img18&image=cobaltsscolor3wtr4mi.jpg)

Here are the ones i posted the last time, but now with the orange fade on each one



Nice job! Now I like all of them :D

If you want to see any (or all) of them bigger, just let me know & i'll take care of that tonight at work. I'm only keeping the file there for now.

If you want to see any (or all) of them bigger, just let me know


Yea, can you post a bigger pic for each please. They look super :thumb:

I wasn't sure exactly which round you wanted bigger, so i went with the last ones that were all the orange fade.

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/3778/cobaltsslogobig1wtr2fi.th.jpg (http://img60.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img60&image=cobaltsslogobig1wtr2fi.jpg)

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/3989/cobaltsslogobig2wtr8qw.th.jpg (http://img60.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img60&image=cobaltsslogobig2wtr8qw.jpg)

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/6173/cobaltsslogobig3wtr0gm.th.jpg (http://img60.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img60&image=cobaltsslogobig3wtr0gm.jpg)

Ah what the heck, i went ahead and did the last round too before they all had the orange fade.

http://img128.exs.cx/img128/6450/cobaltsslogoforbigs1wtr7gx.th.jpg (http://img128.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img128&image=cobaltsslogoforbigs1wtr7gx.jpg)

http://img128.exs.cx/img128/2209/cobaltsslogoforbigs2wtr1vb.th.jpg (http://img128.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img128&image=cobaltsslogoforbigs2wtr1vb.jpg)

http://img128.exs.cx/img128/9810/cobaltsslogoforbigs3wtr8rj.th.jpg (http://img128.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img128&image=cobaltsslogoforbigs3wtr8rj.jpg)

eh? why orange? no hatoration though...i like the design itself...

oh JonelZ...i see what you mean by my pictures being kinda blurry now. my mom and dads computer back here at home evidently has a crappy resolution and it isnt flat screen. it looks fine on my flat screen back in wilmington though...:nuts:

Hey guys whats up, here are a couple of ideas I came up with for the logo contest. I wanted to do something with a boost gauge but I can't find a good picture of what it looks like. Any comments are welcome.

http://img45.exs.cx/img45/1615/cobaltsslogo16pl.jpg

http://img45.exs.cx/img45/5047/cobaltsslogo28lj.jpg

almost fusion orange and red

I left the letter out because stargrrrl is already making some awesome letters, if you want to combine, that's fine by me

http://www.senencito.com/images/fusioncobaltss.jpg

http://www.senencito.com/images/redcobaltss.jpg

I make my designs to work well in black & white as well as color, they're very easy to change. A whole page of designs takes me less than 5 minutes, so that's why i showed mine in black & white and various colors :)

No offense, but i don't want mine combined when i don't think that the other half goes with what i was working towards. It's a cool image, but not anything that i'd go for. I keep in mind what i learned in school about logos, which i posted earlier. The big things are color & clean, not every printing job will be in color (costs more), let alone multiple colors. Also, the more complex something is, the more messy and unclear it is when it's made small, think postage stamp size like for an AOL icon.

I've made mine in a style that would work for t-shirts, vinyl, flyers & any other application that it could be used for so it stays universal. If the same logo is used everywhere, it helps with recognition. The car just wouldn't work due to the complexity of the lines & shading.

There all lookin really good guys! I'll have to see what i can do later...when i get back from work



....Jonel...don't let them know how good my photoshopping skills really are ;) lolll

I make my designs to work well in black & white as well as color, they're very easy to change. A whole page of designs takes me less than 5 minutes, so that's why i showed mine in black & white and various colors :)

No offense, but i don't want mine combined when i don't think that the other half goes with what i was working towards. It's a cool image, but not anything that i'd go for. I keep in mind what i learned in school about logos, which i posted earlier. The big things are color & clean, not every printing job will be in color (costs more), let alone multiple colors. Also, the more complex something is, the more messy and unclear it is when it's made small, think postage stamp size like for an AOL icon.

I've made mine in a style that would work for t-shirts, vinyl, flyers & any other application that it could be used for so it stays universal. If the same logo is used everywhere, it helps with recognition. The car just wouldn't work due to the complexity of the lines & shading. No offense taken, just said it as as suggestion. However one thing though, this logo was made with shirts in mind, shading can be simplified but the lines are already very simple as are the colors, every single thing is a solid color, I applied shadows and highlights in a different layer because it simply looks better on a page, but those take a total of 2 seconds to take out, as shown here.

http://www.senencito.com/images/simple.jpg

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/3/web/651000-651999/651472_17.jpg

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/3/web/651000-651999/651472_18.jpg

I'm an idiot
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/6/web/750000-750999/750120_2_full.jpg
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/6/web/750000-750999/750120_1.jpg

I think the one with the tach would be even better if it used the boost gauge. :cool:

Yea and it should register 22.4 psi :)

Here you go Jonel!
:beer: [FONT=Garamond][SIZE=7][COLOR=Plum]Here's my design! (http://gozips.uakron.edu/~ecm4/Cobalt%20Design/cobalt.htm)
This is my first time submitting anything so I hope it all works!!

Here you go Jonel!
:beer: [FONT=Garamond][SIZE=7][COLOR=Plum]Here's my design! (http://gozips.uakron.edu/~ecm4/Cobalt%20Design/cobalt.htm)
This is my first time submitting anything so I hope it all works!!


good job! Really like the boost gauge.


Contest almost over. wow, cant believe this started more then a month ago

Lower the beast, shave the door handles and I think it would look damn good. (but maybe thats not the look your going for) Awesome either way.

Contest ENDED.

Mods and Admins, please pick your top 3 ASAP. (PM or post here)

Members are welcome to do the same. Its hard to pick, all you did such a good job!

Please go >>>HERE<<< (http://www.cobaltss.net/forums//showthread.php?t=761) to place your vote