Hey everyone its Pablo (duo2999 or the guy with the black vert fc).
I don't know his screen name on here but Ryan (has a red Mazda3) had talked to me and thought about making a separate website for information on San Antonio Mazda Club meets just to have a place where we can go and get information or post photos or whatever, and the website is up (I think, I will include the link and hopefully it is online) but I am kind of at a loss for where to go with the logo for this. I didn't want to just have text that says the name, but I didn't want it to be something that wasn't interesting to look at.
I don't think photobucket will take these links down, but if they should I can upload elsewhere and link them again. I drew these up in illustrator and some are just only text, but I wanted a logo that could be used separately from text and still make sense if someone saw it. I am open to all constructive criticism.
I forgot which Ryan said he was leaning towards but I think it was just the text ones, but I mean if this is going to represent more people, then I would like to know what everyone thinks. If the name or words need to be changed, please speak up because I just made the name something that seemed to work. I was going to make it "San Antonio Mazda Car Club" but I figured that the word 'car' could be left out. Alright now on to the photos.
Very first one
Using different text, but didn't like it too much
I have no idea why I did this one, but it is better to get the ideas out then keep them in your head, even if they aren't really good ideas
This is when I first tried using the Alamo, but I was told it resembles something that a car dealership could use
This is the just text one, no separate symbol but it seemed to work.
This seemed to be a good layout for the logo with text, but I wasn't happy that I just slapped Mazda's logo there with some text
This is where I came up with putting the Alamo shape within the Mazda symbol. I thought it is a very elegant solution. But I am not sure how it is read by a lot of people. Do you see the Alamo?
The rest of these are color variations of the Mazda blue, red, black, and gold colors.
I could really see this being used for an "Alamo Mazda Car Dealership" place, if it existed (There isn't one right?).
I tried coming up with variations in that line. I figured it people didn't see the Alamo right away, that this line could try to remind people what it is.
Let me explain the Alamo thing. Yes, I do know that the Alamo is used like a ***** in logos and whatever else in San Antonio, but I like using it in a different way. You can see I tried it just plopping it on top of 'Mazda' to see how it turned out, and it was ok but i didn't think it felt that it was there yet, where ever there is. In the Mazda symbol I put the shape of the Alamo upside down so it would flow with the logo instead fighting it.
It is upside down though.
I'm not sure if that is a problem but I don't think it detracts from the logo and it really speaks 'San Antonio' to me or maybe even Texas. I was going to try to use The Tower of Americas, but there isn't anything too distinct about it.
Now that I think about it, maybe the Alamo shape could go on top of the Mazda Logo, but I didn't want to alter the basic shape of the 'M' symbol.
Thoughts?
(hump)
I don't know his screen name on here but Ryan (has a red Mazda3) had talked to me and thought about making a separate website for information on San Antonio Mazda Club meets just to have a place where we can go and get information or post photos or whatever, and the website is up (I think, I will include the link and hopefully it is online) but I am kind of at a loss for where to go with the logo for this. I didn't want to just have text that says the name, but I didn't want it to be something that wasn't interesting to look at.
I don't think photobucket will take these links down, but if they should I can upload elsewhere and link them again. I drew these up in illustrator and some are just only text, but I wanted a logo that could be used separately from text and still make sense if someone saw it. I am open to all constructive criticism.
I forgot which Ryan said he was leaning towards but I think it was just the text ones, but I mean if this is going to represent more people, then I would like to know what everyone thinks. If the name or words need to be changed, please speak up because I just made the name something that seemed to work. I was going to make it "San Antonio Mazda Car Club" but I figured that the word 'car' could be left out. Alright now on to the photos.
Very first one
Using different text, but didn't like it too much
I have no idea why I did this one, but it is better to get the ideas out then keep them in your head, even if they aren't really good ideas
This is when I first tried using the Alamo, but I was told it resembles something that a car dealership could use
This is the just text one, no separate symbol but it seemed to work.
This seemed to be a good layout for the logo with text, but I wasn't happy that I just slapped Mazda's logo there with some text
This is where I came up with putting the Alamo shape within the Mazda symbol. I thought it is a very elegant solution. But I am not sure how it is read by a lot of people. Do you see the Alamo?
The rest of these are color variations of the Mazda blue, red, black, and gold colors.
I could really see this being used for an "Alamo Mazda Car Dealership" place, if it existed (There isn't one right?).
I tried coming up with variations in that line. I figured it people didn't see the Alamo right away, that this line could try to remind people what it is.
Let me explain the Alamo thing. Yes, I do know that the Alamo is used like a ***** in logos and whatever else in San Antonio, but I like using it in a different way. You can see I tried it just plopping it on top of 'Mazda' to see how it turned out, and it was ok but i didn't think it felt that it was there yet, where ever there is. In the Mazda symbol I put the shape of the Alamo upside down so it would flow with the logo instead fighting it.
It is upside down though.
I'm not sure if that is a problem but I don't think it detracts from the logo and it really speaks 'San Antonio' to me or maybe even Texas. I was going to try to use The Tower of Americas, but there isn't anything too distinct about it.
Now that I think about it, maybe the Alamo shape could go on top of the Mazda Logo, but I didn't want to alter the basic shape of the 'M' symbol.
Thoughts?
(hump)
