Croydon Solfed Logo - Help Needed

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Aug 16 2012 20:30
Croydon Solfed Logo - Help Needed

Hey guys, Croydon Solfed is actually starting. I have got some ideas for a logo and was wondering if anyone would be willing to do it for free. What I was thinking is to have this silhouette of the borough

but with it red and black on either side diagonally like the red and black flag as the main piece inside a circle with croydon solidarity federation written on the border like how solidarity federation, international workers association is on the solfed logo

Anyone ?

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Aug 16 2012 20:54

Ok so I managed to do the diagonal myself

So I essentially want this with text but less blatantly done in paint tongue

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Aug 16 2012 20:58

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

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Aug 16 2012 21:12

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) eek wink

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 grin )

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Bingo grin

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Aug 16 2012 21:38

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.

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Aug 16 2012 22:00

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!

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Aug 16 2012 22:06
the croydonian anarchist wrote:
So I essentially want this with text but less blatantly done in paint tongue

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)

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Aug 16 2012 22:12

Looks like Pan-Croydonism to me! wink

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Aug 16 2012 22:16

Communism in one borough. cool

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Aug 16 2012 23:09
Inhousejoke wrote:

CAN'T BE UNSEEN

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Aug 16 2012 23:32

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

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Aug 16 2012 23:33

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

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Aug 16 2012 23:43
Arbeiten wrote:
I'm personally a fan of just the standard SF logo with the local written around the outside.... red n black star

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

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Aug 16 2012 23:45

Party poopers.

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Aug 17 2012 11:38
Harrison wrote:
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

That is rockin'.

~J.

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Aug 17 2012 13:34

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

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Aug 17 2012 14:24

Wow guys, I didn't expect such a response. I will be consulting the others I know and showing them this thread and then we can move forward.

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Aug 17 2012 17:17

Alright. Toms, could you try these 3 ideas

1. Get the word Croydon somewhere in the logo with the red and black borough map.
2. Replace the bird thing with a silhouette of either a picture of the 50p building

3. Replace the bird thing with a silhouette of the croydon clocktower

If you cant do the silhouette type effect to the pictures provided, feel free to find others that would work better, or if you can't do the silhouette in general, can anyone else do it ?

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Aug 17 2012 18:38

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

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Aug 17 2012 18:49
Arbeiten wrote:
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

the croydonian anarchist wrote:
1. Get the word Croydon somewhere in the logo with the red and black borough map

Possibility:

I'll try 2 and 3 later

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Aug 17 2012 19:20

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

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Aug 17 2012 19:56

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

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Aug 17 2012 21:27

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Aug 17 2012 22:49

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. smile

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Aug 17 2012 23:16

Sure, I'll do something tomorrow

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Aug 18 2012 00:35

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.

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Aug 18 2012 10:50

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

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Aug 18 2012 13:58

Alright guys, thank you for your help but we are going to go simpler, we just want to go with this
but with the ring around the outside saying solidarity federation international workers association like the national one. Thanks again.

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Aug 18 2012 14:04

I like that one. grin.

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? beardiest

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Aug 19 2012 01:49

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