Design a new logo for libcom

The new theme is great!

Thanks, glad you like it. There are quite a lot of issues with it (see the thread linked to above) but we still think it is a massive improvement on the existing theme.

Just to say that one user has knocked up a new logo already:

That logo looks ace

i really like that. just riffing on that, i wondered what it'd look like with the star as the dot.

i'm not convinced, but putting it out there.

Sorry Snipfool, but I like the first one comrade (although I had the exact same idea).

So who designed that first one you posted up Steven? My money's on Harrison....

I am going to be boring and say really like the existing one.

I like current design... it's simple. I hope you don't wanna make something to modern with to many blinking stuff.

Just in case you guys are going with the logo shown above, why not make the "lib" black and the "com" red? The "org" can be yellow for our anarcho-capitalist comrades...totally serious about that last part...totally...
:upnorth: <---Serious face.

The red and black star seems intrusive in both logos, why not ejust have the red and black libcom.org without the star?

~J.

I think the first one is good but the letters should alternately flash black and red and that the star should spin around.

I think it's about time we expanded the site's name to make it more obvious what it means.

like this

the new theme is a big improvement in terms of navigation, but still feels a bit wonky and blog default-y. but then again, i don't know if a really 'tight' design would actually turn off some people because of looking too 'corporate.'
also, as someone who (tries) to make a living from graphic design. i would make it clear in your contest that libcom.org does not make any money from the site (which I'm assuming is the case), so that the logo contest isn't perceived as another instance of free labour in exchange for prestige/experience/a good opportunity/CV/etc., that graphic designers and other creative workers are subjected to all the time.

That is correct, we don't make profit from the site, we are all volunteers ourselves, we can edit that in.

cool! sorry, didn't mean to wag my finger there, just thought it would be good to include. that said, here is a suggestion.

That last one is sharp.

(bottom bit is playing around with icons)

Like the first logo*, also the new theme is good but the CSS needs a fair bit of tweaking. Would it be helpful to list the glitches, or is this something you're aware of and working on...?

*edit - agree with jolesmo's point about the star though

build_and_withdraw

cool! sorry, didn't mean to wag my finger there, just thought it would be good to include. that said, here is a suggestion.

I can't see that image, can other people?

Half of them seem to have disappeared

Hey armchair, there is a separate thread in the feedback forum for people to raise issues/comments with the theme, so mentioning them there would be really helpful

conservative

menswear

sane

sharp

slash

square

friendly youth

Properly reducing a putanesca pasta sauce takes forever ;)

I like this

I don't like the "dot org" thing. It should just be ".org"

tastybrain

I don't like the "dot org" thing. It should just be ".org"

The menswear one is for you then ;)

Some of them would probably work better with .org as you say, but not all. These were put together very quickly, almost burning my food in the process.

Friendly youth one looks quite solidarnosc with that line underneath

Forgot I meant to do an activisty one. Sorta handwritten, sharp, but agressive was the plan.
They all have svg sources upon request.

Thanks guys, keep them coming

This is going to be like the SolFed national logo vote all over again...

Maybe I just love simplicity too much but the current logo seems better than any of the proposed alternatives. Probably some slogan like 'Communism not complication' could justify this, but who cares?

I like the one that sabot did:

My effort. That said, imo the first suggestion is the best so far.

Really liking the redesign as a whole!

i vote for cooked's 'conservative' and 'sane'. very srs looking.

Cooked

sharp

Dallas Stars vibe that one 8-)

petey

i vote for cooked's 'conservative' and 'sane'. very srs looking.

So I have to offer some less srs ones for the activists out there.

marker 1 to 4

Testing how they work in black, white etc. I've done that with a few of the others aswell.

I'm aimlessly churning these out only thinking about the visual aspects, ingnoring what "image" I think is appropriate for the site.

Steven.

Thanks, glad you like it. There are quite a lot of issues with it (see the thread linked to above) but we still think it is a massive improvement on the existing theme.

Just to say that one user has knocked up a new logo already:

can we just use this one? it fits much more with the theme...

slab 1 and 2

I like slab 1 Cooked, but what about aligning the G with the M? I'm sorry if that is a terrible idea and I have revealed myself as a design cretin....

Arbeiten

I like slab 1 Cooked, but what about aligning the G with the M?

Give it a shot! Cut it up in photohop, gimp, mspaint and see how it goes. I'd upload the "original" for you to tweak but I don't have access to the files atm.

They are all done in inkscape which is easy to use. Have been weening myself of Adobe for a while.

In my view moving the org would result in an unbalanced and fragmented composition. But you can't know for sure before testing.

I humbly submit these :

The first one is nice, but the star gets lost at smaller sizes.
I tried to find a font that is easy to read and isn't 'classy' : this one was used on handbills for the masses.

Dissapointed at the size these things who up. maybe I should have limited myself to one.

Some quick ideas

fuck yeah

I've tried to go for a (hopefully!) friendly reassuring feel on this one, aimed at appeasing past critics of the site. Thoughts?

Two variations on the same idea.

I like those Django, I think those are the best so far.

Here's my suggestion, incorporating a redesigned site header (click for full-size):

There are a few different variations of this here:
http://imgur.com/a/hLHxa

Bit similar to an estate agent one though...

Steven, that looks like the Walmart logo

Steven.

Here's my suggestion, incorporating a redesigned site header (click for full-size):

that looks like an asterisk, not a star

i looked at them all & i like the first one best,

also quite like lukitas's one but i think it although it looks good it reads too much like libCOM.org cos of the vibrancy of the red

just a note on this - we realised we can't really change the logo without rejigging the header region to keep it looking balanced. so we're discussing what to do and may well re-do the site header (including logo) in the future.

I think the header is definitely a weak point on the site, so it needs something changing on it.