Logo for shirts, bumper stickers, and stuff.

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Danno

Logo for shirts, bumper stickers, and stuff.

Post by Danno »

so, there's this logo for the Suzuki Aerio forum I always thought it was kinda cool. I've asked a couple of guys over there to help me make a similar one for our forum. they gave me some rough drafts, and I've messed with what they made and I added the "fiatspider.com" part. I own fiat-spider.com, so if Evan isn't about me infringing upon his forum name (i totally understand) I can just throw that dash in there.
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i'm not sure the convertible one looks right, but I tried. anyway, like I said these are the final drafts, just trying for now.

Not trying to sell anything here. I just know that some of you might have wifes with embroidery machines who can slap something like that on a nice polo shirt, or maybe even you can print it off on Iron on paper fora tshirt or something.
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So Cal Mark

Post by So Cal Mark »

IMHO, the profile of the car doesn't look like a Spider; too rounded especially in the back. But it's a good start and could look pretty cool
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Post by mdrburchette »

I like the FiatSpider logo. That's pretty cool.
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Post by spiderrey »

i like the idea. dont like the drawing though. . if ur serious. people should send in thier ideas for the logo, and we can pick one.. also think u should leave the dash out of the logo and make all , or most of the profits go to the site to help keep it up. just my 2 cents......
Danno

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spiderrey wrote:i like the idea. dont like the drawing though. . if ur serious. people should send in thier ideas for the logo, and we can pick one.. also think u should leave the dash out of the logo and make all , or most of the profits go to the site to help keep it up. just my 2 cents......
it's funny you mention that 'cause I'm doing that exact thing on the aeriostyle forum. i've set up a shop on cafepress.com (shirts, mugs, hats, mousepads, baby onesies, license plate frames, etc etc) and put a 5% markup on everything and the proceeds are going to the forum. 5% is just enough so that people don't feel they should make their own shirts, but also large enough that the forum can actually make something to help.

Right now we are talking about what we should do with the very small proceeds. to save myself some retyping, one idea I had was:
...we could have an author of some book on performance mods, or autocross racing, or something automotive related on here and then people who ask questions would automatically be entered into a drawing to win said Author's book. Questions could all be submitted to the moderators and edited/tossed out depending on appropriateness, but we could still allow all questions to be an entry, I mean the author might not even be able to answer all questions given time, whatnot.

just an idea, i've seen some other bigger sucessful forums do things like that....
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Post by spiderrey »

could work, evan would need to be kept in the loop. this is his site, and he should have final say so, to kill it or give it his blessing. as far as authors go i like the idea, but doubt they would have the time.
Danno

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spiderrey wrote:i like the idea. dont like the drawing though. . if ur serious. people should send in thier ideas for the logo, and we can pick one.. also think u should leave the dash out of the logo and make all , or most of the profits go to the site to help keep it up. just my 2 cents......
also, the dash or not is up to Evan as well as making money off of it. I don't want to push a logo onto his site. I mean look above. he already has one that looks decent.

I'm usually a big fan of "free domain" so that's why i didn't really want to do anything more that put a logo here that people can use however they want.

I don't see any reason people couldn't start submitting ideas if they want to, just keep in mind that I do feel strongly about one thing. nobody should make any money off of the fiatspider.com name except the guy who owns it. I'm sure you can all understand that.

Now, whether or not Evan is even ok with people making shirts with a logo using his name (even if no money is being had) remains to be seen. he would certainly be within his rights to say he'd rather we not. (then you'd just have to never tell him you did it!!!! lol) although you could always chop off the .com and then nobody could be mad at you except Fiat!
Danno

Post by Danno »

anyway, so you can get an idea of what products i'm selling for aeriostyle and you can also see how much I'm ripping of that logo and design, lol:

http://www.cafepress.com/aerio
So Cal Mark

Post by So Cal Mark »

consider that tee shirts with fs.com is free advertising, like listing the site on a search engine. Before the old site went down, sellling fs items was a consideration to fund the site.
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Post by mdrburchette »

I understand the cost of using more than one color is more, but wouldn't it be nice to have something with Evan's logo on it? That is truly a cool logo. I wonder what it would look like with your Fiatspider.com lettering on it.
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