The Spreadshirt-blossom, a spreaded fan of cmy(k)-leafs/labels.
The input from below is spreaded in many directions, using the power of print - represented by cyan, magenta and yellow, combining for your success.
The blossom also represents growing, like spreadshirt itself and the revenue of the users hopefully is. The spreaded fan works well for plot or b/w, as does the picture mark in small sized like a favicon.Not actually intended, but for the extra sense of home, the result of the colors blending creates a hidden flag…
Usage possibilities:
Last 5 entries by elwood
- Label-Shirt - September 5th, 2007
Well done
nice style. like the color and the font. as well as the examples. but i can’t see the connection to your iown label. anyways well done
i like this draft a lot - but whats about the tagline?
A slogan is not an essential part of a logo. It’s much more importent that the message of the slogan and the design of the logo harmonize, than forcing it to fit right besides the logo.
Since a slogan also mostly adds smaller text, it can’t be maintained for smaller sizes anyway
you are definitely right, but only your are the one to make it happen bring your idea, how it should looks like, to our eyes and help us to be convinced about your concept by this additional (and by the way requested) argument
yep, its a beautiful logo, but will it support the tagline “your own label”, I’m not so sure.
good work.. i really like the colors.. and iam with you with the slogan
by mb:
“…(and by the way requested)…”
how so?
“Support our tagline “Your Own Label”, but also work as a stand alone visual without it.”
There’s no request in there to actually place it, at least in my understanding.
A fixed slogan can take away much flexibility.
If it does support the slogan is a matter of opinion - and as the creator i of course think it does
- how would fanned out labels that eagerly await you picking one not? 
You do not have to include it in your drafts. But remember we’re re-running this contest because we have a new tagline, which we think is not supported by the fingerprint. So a key concern is that both the logo and tagline re-enforce each other. Including it in your designs makes it easier for people to judge this.
I do get what you are saying, but i do also think and hope that the people, the designers, commenting here did read the briefing (although obviously not everybody gets what ist’s saying :p) and especially the panel does know what it’s judging.
There isn’t and there won’t be the slogan inflexible affixed to this logo - I’ll add a slogan placement example on the website to my next submission (and maybe add one here…), for the people i seem to have majorly confused with “oh noes no slogan”…
If the slogan will fit visually and functionally at a fixed position by a logo very well, i’ll place it there, but i just don’t want it to be part of the individual logo in the presentation, if it doesn’t need a fixed position (and a slogan does not need a fixed position in the logo itself - there can/should be fixed compositions of both later, but those can be differ for differnt media). That’s why i try to *support* it with my work, and not just *feature* it to be there.
Support > Feature, in my opinion. Both together, if visually fitting, is of course even better.
If you don’t like it that way, then don’t like it.
) the designers brief, and critizise with those informations in mind.
If someone doesn’t know what this contest is about, then he should read (and understand
But please… stop repeating it… cause i’ll do it again that way, as long as the briefing doesn’t state it as requirement. But like i said, to please the crowd, there will be composition examples then.
Deal?
its nice. i like the type, its clean, it’s very ‘now’ but i cant help but think that i’ve seen similar things before, too many times.
http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/28
http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/16064
http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/15919
http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/15229
http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/14899
i kind of question the use of the leaf type things, what do these reference in terms of t-shirt printing? you are obviously talented with a good eye; perhaps you could push it a bit further? not trying to be picky but the moment I saw it it struck me as extremely familiar.
@someones coat
Basicly every simple shape has been done before. And of course cmyk has been done before.
Yes, your first example has a similar shape, but not extremely similar (well… it a leaf). Yes, the other use colors and color mixing, but only one of them uses cmyk with very differnt shapes and no mixing.
But you can find similar logos almost always, it’s not picky, just the way it is. As long as there is no striking similarity i don’t see it as a problem - i wasn’t even on the impression that it’s something extremly unique, and kind of waited for a post like this, to see what it may resemble.
If you find something more similar, don’t hesitate to post it.
As to the reference of the leaves/labels - read the description and the designers brief
It’s not in reference to shirts, it’s in reference to spreading and the label-slogan. Basicly similar to a hand of cards to pick your own label from. If you “need” a shirt in there, turn your head 180°
Now with additional sloganized goodness:
http://westborn.vectorhill.de/workdata/spreadshirt/cmykblossom-webcomp.png
Possible placement on the website.
i got the same problem as someones coat
it reminds me of the msn logo even if there it is a butterfly and not just shapes…
I see were you coming from, but once again, i’d say far away from real similarity - like, for example,:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/23415.html
I’d say it’s more of a subjective association than a real objective similarity. Of course that’s not that great either, but i bet you wouldn’t instantly have it outside of the contest, since you analyze the logos more intensely now.
That looks very professional. One of my favorites.
Looks very professional, but conceptually it’s utterly vacuous.
The key to good logo design is surely conveying the brand image that the client is after. I just don’t think you’ve even tried to do that.
@ PrettyVaguerant.com
Might I just ask what (you suppose) the brand image spreadshirt is after is?
Really nice logo! But the the #3 & #5 reminds me somehow of the Sydney Opera House.
Elwood,
It’s all the designers’ brief - nothing to do with what I suppose. Don’t get so defensive!
There were two specific “must haves” I was referring to:
“The logo should look and function like a label for our business.”
and
“Help people understand our business.”
I don’t see what leaves/Sydney Opera House has to do with printing clothing.
It’s a fine logo, just not for Spreadshirt.
Erm, how exactly am I “so defensive!”?
Sorry i politely asked you (to ask you…) a question, i’ll never do it again, i hope you may someday forgive me… oO
Anyway, reading you’re other comments i guess your idea is just something with a recognizable shirt? - that is okay and sure shiws they have something to do with, well, shirts, but in my opinion just a shirt is in no way sufficient.
So it seems we have differnt opinions on the subject, and that’s fine with me.
I’m glad that Spreadshirt has come to their senses in regards to the branding of the company.
The redesigning of the logo is the first step in building the future for spreadshirt, hopefully attracting more partners and gain popularity in a competitive marketplace.
The current logo never did show or convey the true image and message that can withstand time and trends.
Good luck to the future winners.
E L A N Z
make a difference
Cool logo. Really dig the font. However, the colours remind me a little bit of “printers”
elwood,
I’m not saying you have to have anything to do with a shirt in your design, merely that what they’re looking for is a logo that will help people understand their business. And as they’re now positioning themselves as apparel experts, something that ties together clothing, fashion (as in “your own label”) and individual creativity (on the part of the shop partners) is surely the order of the day.
I’m not saying your logo is no good - far from it, I think it’s excellent. But what it brings to mind for me is process printing and something to do with the Sydney Opera House. So it would be great for a printshop on Sydney Harbour, but not necessarily for a Internal plot-printing clothing / Web 2.0 business.
“internal” should have read “international”.
I like this logo very very much, the presentation is incredible but the problem is it looks too much like the 9rules.com logo, which isn’t good. For that reason alone, I don’t know if it would be a good logo for SpreadShirt.
If this is your only problem, then you should read the other comments here and be asured that it is relativly far away from “too similar” - it was already mentioned, by the way
On the other hand, if it was for another service similar to spreadshirt i’d agree that the shape might be to similar.
yes, your logo looks really perfect! but the flower is too abstract to get the link to the t-shirt-company. a flower and the transparency is nice but not very individual and – unfortunately – often be seen. >> www.de.msn.com
So, are you saying that the msn-logo is a transparent flower, or that their service has something to do with butterflies?
Anyway, it’s been mentioned before, please also read the other comments.
Hi all!
Very interesting information! Thanks!
Bye