Competition Score up to $500 by designing RPG Codex' Corporate Branding (Logo & Business Cards) Competition

[Seari]

I have this thing in my signature. .

But hey man, it's silly of me to lash out like this. Sorry.

Accepted and no offense taken. I rarely read the signatures, so sorry for ignoring your signature.

Could you guys be any more gay?

 

[Akratus]

I'm down to clown.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Still no specs of logos and banners for social networks, if someone could post the requirements that would be grand. I don't even visit these sites.
And thanks for scalable troll lefthandblack, very good.

Twitter:

Header photo (recommended dimensions are 1500x500 pixels)
Profile photo (recommended dimensions are 400x400 pixels)

Profile Header: 1500px by 500px. Panoramas work well. While 1500px x 500px is the recommended size, if you don't want Twitter to resize the image, you can get away with 1263px x 421px.​

Facebook:

Your Page's profile picture:

• Displays at 160x160 pixels on your Page on computers, 140x140 pixels on smartphones and 50x50 pixels on most feature phones
• Must be at least 180x180 pixels
• Will be cropped to fit a square
• Is located 16 pixels from the left and 176 pixels from the top of your cover photo on computers
• Is located 24 pixels from the left, 24 pixels from the bottom and 196 pixels from the top of your cover photo on smartphones

Your Page's cover photo:

• Displays at 851 pixels wide by 315 pixels tall on your Page on computers and 640 pixels wide by 360 pixels tall on smartphones
• Doesn't display on feature phones
• Must be at least 399 pixels wide and 150 pixels tall
• Loads fastest as an sRGB JPG file that's 851 pixels wide, 315 pixels tall and less than 100 kilobytes

 

[Curious_Tongue]

If you could somehow incorporate racofer's shoop somewhere, it would be appreciated.

 

[Khorne]

New card with nfo and small banner on top, used the scalable troll logo.

 

[Lady_Error]

My choices for the business card:

or:

Though I wonder if this one has some copyright issues.

Best letterhead:

Monochrome

Not much to choose from for Facebook/Twitter.

 

[Tormented Seph]

Another combo for Business Card (without QR) in Ultra HD:

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FB e Twitter Cover:

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Letterhead:

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Obviously I can change the header ad footer according to the Business Card choice.

 

[FeelTheRads]

The angry mob works much better in monochrome on the letterhead. On the social shit not so much. Maybe because of the extra crowd in the back. Did you try it without the DOF effect?

 

[Crooked Bee]

For the large Twitter header/banner, I think we could use something like HobGoblin's business card design. We're currently using something like that actually, but it's very low res and looks a bit like crap in higher res:

https://twitter.com/RPGCodex

If someone could redo it in higher res and proper aspect ratio or make a similar one, it'd be cool.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

Who was the genius behind this design? It's like crack to an old Ultimafag like myself. Using the Ultima 5 tiles would be more contemporary but not Ultima 6 pls, thx.

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

Reported for plebean tastes.

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

Another combo for Business Card (without QR) in Ultra HD:

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Obviously I can change the header ad footer according to the Business Card choice.

This is perfect but I don't think the "+1 something" is necessary.

 

[Seari]

facebook

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[Tormented Seph]

As you suggest...

Without DOF:

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Monochrome:

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Without angry mob:

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For the large Twitter header/banner, I think we could use something like HobGoblin's business card design. We're currently using something like that actually, but it's very low res and looks a bit like crap in higher res:

https://twitter.com/RPGCodex

If someone could redo it in higher res and proper aspect ratio or make a similar one, it'd be cool.

This is the best I can do trying to re-pixelart it:

1920x341:

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1600x421 (the visible area in twitter cover):

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This is perfect but I don't think the "+1 something" is necessary.

It's for the "RPG elements".
You know how it works today in mainstream potato land: "Growing Numbers? ==> IT'S AN RPG!!!"

But for me it's the same, no problem.
Waiting for other feedbacks.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Another combo for Business Card (without QR) in Ultra HD:

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Personal opinion, I like the white business card (1st on left). The troll carrying the die needs to be on the front though, next to the RPG CODEX like it is with the letterhead.

I'm still wondering whether that die needs numbers on it too... And wondering what that looks like in that outlined style.

On the back, how about using the high-res troll whomever it was posted earlier, only as a faded watermark (that way you can write on that side if need be)?

Letterhead:

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Obviously I can change the header ad footer according to the Business Card choice.

Love this letterhead. Love the angry mob at the bottom. It feels lacking without some colour though. Dunno.

Without angry mob:

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Not really sold on this for Twitter and Facebook.

I like the concept of the +1 and of each card / thing having a unique comment. For Facebook it should be "+1 Likes" and Twitter "+1 Retweets".

And the die carrying troll definitely needs "rpgcodex" on his shirt and numbers on the die here if he's going to be in full colour.

The monochrome mob looks much better than the coloured one though. It also looks angrier, which is nice.

 

[Ninjerk]

I think it really needs a phallic watermark.

 

[Tormented Seph]

Personal opinion, I like the white business card (1st on left). The troll carrying the die needs to be on the front though, next to the RPG CODEX like it is with the letterhead.

I'm still wondering whether that die needs numbers on it too... And wondering what that looks like in that outlined style.

On the back, how about using the high-res troll whomever it was posted earlier, only as a faded watermark (that way you can write on that side if need be)?

I'm not sure if this is what you asked for:

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Which combo do you prefer?

Not really sold on this for Twitter and Facebook.

I like the concept of the +1 and of each card / thing having a unique comment. For Facebook it should be "+1 Likes" and Twitter "+1 Retweets".

And the die carrying troll definitely needs "rpgcodex" on his shirt and numbers on the die here if he's going to be in full colour.

The monochrome mob looks much better than the coloured one though. It also looks angrier, which is nice.

Here the Logo:

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For the social cover I don't know...do you prefer some combination with the Ultima cover? Not so good for some alternative but I can try.
Otherwise I go for the monochrome, adding "+1 Likes/Followers/Retweets" and the logo with "RPG Codex" on shirt and number on dice (all white).

Let me know.

 

[felipepepe]

Personally, I like the first combo. But I would remove the "RPG Codex" on the troll's t-shirt, at least on the watermark. It overlays with the info and looks weird.

 

[Crooked Bee]

+1 whatever looks silly imho.

In the meantime, while I've no idea who will win or who DU will actually pay or anything, I've updated the Twitter banner with this:

This is the best I can do trying to re-pixelart it:

1920x341:

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1600x421 (the visible area in twitter cover):

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However, the recommended Twitter header size is actually 1500x500 (otherwise a part of the image gets cropped no matter what) so I had to resize it with lanczos a bit. As a result, it looks somewhat washed out again:

https://twitter.com/RPGCodex

Still better before, though.

 

[felipepepe]

Leave the twitter thing to me, I'm waiting a HUGE render, I'll just grab the tileset and re-do it.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

Seriously guys, isn't the troll Chris Avellone's 'intellectual property' ? Or has this been addressed already?

 

[Irenaeus II]

Seriously guys, isn't the troll Chris Avellone's 'intellectual property' ? Or has this been addressed already?

he's with us now

 

[Akratus]

Ours has horns.

 

[Lagole Gon]

I'm trying to figure out the general direction of rebranding. So...

Kodex Klassic?

or The New Shit Kodex?

DISCUSS!

 

[Kalin]

You faggets have the answer on page 1.