Croydon Solfed Logo - Help Needed

Nice try but I think you need to have a rethink. Doesn't work.

No offense but your borough looks waaaay to much like a face/head (I'm getting a bit of a hybrid Dr.Zoidberg/Professor Farnsworth from Futurama vibe)

I'd say go with the normal Solfed logo you have there and have the word "Croydon" somewhere on it? Or a skyline/local landmark view in the middle of the circle with Croyden Solfed written across it (like our logo which is still pretty mental, the skyline is probably the only thing I'd take from it )

EDIT:

Bingo

Without meaning to be sound dismissive, but is the outline of Croydon actually going to be very familiar to many of its inhabitants? Most towns or districts are basically just blobs, and while they may be recognisable, they're unlikely to leap out at you in the same way that the outline of a country might do. If I was shown an outline of my town, I doubt I'd recognise it without being told what it is, and that's with a fairly "concrete" border, in that it actually represents the edge-ish of urban settlement, rather than a largely abstract political boundary of a London borough.

I think that Inhousejoke is on to something when he suggests using a skyline, because that's something derived from a concrete presence rather than an abstraction, and so something that people will more intuitively recognise.

hey croy, we created this logo for hull sf that we didn't bother using in the end, cheekily using an AFed graphic (based from a quote about Durruti). (decided it was better to use national logo, which in my honest opinion is better to do, for consistency's sake, and creating a recognisable brand). also, are you on the SF internal forums? that would be the perfect place to ask something like this

if you want i can edit it to say croydon for you? (should probably also ask AFed for permission to use the bird graphic)

all the best with the local!

I think I can help you with that; if I understand correctly you want the red&black borough silhouette inside the circle saying Croydon Solidarity Federation at the top, right?

I used to be quite the wiz with photoshop but I gotta see if I can make it look okay. Will try something over the weekend.

How big do you need it? (before you ask, I have no experience in making vector gfx sorry)

Looks like Pan-Croydonism to me!

Communism in one borough.

CAN'T BE UNSEEN

I'm personally a fan of just the standard SF logo with the local written around the outside....

I like the idea, Croy. Be curious to see what R comes up with.

Yeah this. The borough outline is just not recognisable to pretty much anyone, so though a nice idea, its affect would be lost.

Party poopers.

That is rockin'.

~J.

I didn't make any aesthetic decisions since this isn't for me, so if you or any solfed people want any changes let me know. I also didn't use the fonts from the, hull and north london, originals as I have no idea which fonts they were

I really like the second one Toms has mocked up for you. Nice work Toms

Haha that one is just the north london solfed symbol with the north london part erased and replaces with corydon

Possibility:

I'll try 2 and 3 later

Would people from Croydon recognise the outline of there borough? No offence but it look like a fat Italy.

Looks good, IMO Croydon has to be in there as a word.

I really like the first one of that last batch toms has done with the building in red. If you could get the word croydon in there (in red round the edge as one of the examples above has, maybe?) then that'd be ace.

Sure, I'll do something tomorrow

slightly off topic, but i'd be interested to hear the creation story of SF croydon. from the initial ideas through to actually doing it and what's involved.. or of course the tale of any other recent SF locals.

@Toms Just to point out I'm not in Croydon SolFed, so that was just my suggestion to them.

I like that one. .

Hey snipfool, I like what your asking there, but it might not be seen on this thread by the right people, why not start a new thread about it?

Toms, are you in SF? Because, fuckin' ell man, I want you as our in-house graphics designer...