Music Composers Unite!

Composer Forum website logo contest!

Hi folks!

We are going to be doing a Composers Forum website graphics contest - anyone with a knack for Photoshop is welcome to join in! I am making an entry to start it off and set the tone, but anything is ok to submit! Any style, concept, etc is just great. The winner will get a lifetime supply of using the composer's forum WOOT! hehehe.

Specs:
image should be a .gif image that is no larger than 100 pixels high by 955 pixels wide. It should clearly say "Composers' Forum" in it. It should work well with various color schemes. Other than that, its up to you! Please post in this forum when you have a submission! THANK YOU!

Here are the entries!:

1: Chris Alpiar:

2: Chris Merritt:

3: Abhik - Asevenc -Chatterjee:

4: Jorge Luis Valverde Valverde:

5: Alimar:

6: Simon Godden:

7: Ray Kemp:

8: Jorge Luis Valverde Valverde:

9: Jorge Luis Valverde Valverde:

10: Jorge Luis Valverde Valverde

11: Holli Vals:

12: S.Koray Özçelik:

13: Denny Schneidemesser:

Permalink Reply by Chris Alpiar on June 29, 2009 at 12:02am: come on now! I know there are TONS of creative folks in our forums and quite a few have some decent graphical prowess! Show us what'cha got! ;-)

Permalink Reply by Ray Kemp on June 29, 2009 at 6:00am: Hey Chris,
I'm betting no one can come up with an idea that encompasses all the different styles and genres of our membership. Some may understand that score stuff on your banner and others may never use anything other than their 'ear'. If anyone comes up with an idea that is inclusive, I'll eat my hat! :)

Permalink Reply by Chris Alpiar on June 29, 2009 at 9:24am: well thats true, but maybe adding in ALL elements representing ALL composers on our forum might be too many ideas for a logo. Maybe someone has an idea though and this is the very time and place to post it ;-) While personally I dont understand how anyone could compose without at least understanding music notation on a page, I suppose there might be some. (btw the score in my version is hand printed by Stravinsky as found in the library of congress archives ;-) Now I know not many people write with 'cut time' (the cents marker I used for the 'C'), unless we have some marching band writers, but it was the only music notation referenced C I could find

Permalink Reply by Chris Merritt on June 30, 2009 at 3:03pm: Should we advertise this as a feature or on the main page somehow?

Permalink Reply by Chris Merritt on July 2, 2009 at 8:47pm

Here's another one with Score paper (and not the right size...)

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composersforum-mmp.gif, 30 KB

Permalink Reply by Anne Goodwin on July 2, 2009 at 9:05pm: What is the deadline for submission? What are the technical criteria - i.e. limitations - that we must consider when designing the logo?

Permalink Reply by Ray Kemp on July 3, 2009 at 3:02am: The optimum size of the masthead is 955pix width x 100pix height.

Permalink Reply by Asevenc on July 23, 2009 at 11:48pm

How's this ?

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Composers' Forum copy.gif, 43 KB

Permalink Reply by Chris Alpiar on July 24, 2009 at 5:15am: very cool Abhik!

Permalink Reply by Asevenc on July 24, 2009 at 11:27pm: Thank You !

Permalink Reply by Kristofer Emerig on August 6, 2009 at 7:32pm: I think it's great. I'd suggest beefing up the the "r" and "u" in "Forum", making them a little more substantial for the sake of overall proportion.