$150 Design Contest

[dreaminginspiration]

Contest Title: $150 Design Contest
Deadline: Monday 20th March 2006
Prize / Delivery Method: $150 via Paypal

I need a new design and logo for my site www.pokercrowd.co.uk, this is a site for people to host and search for poker games. I will need a main front page and a sub page with little/no content as well as a unique logo. The design and logo must be sleek, clean and professional i dont want a "template" look with shiney orbs everywhere. An example of the type of design i like is http://www.bodog.com/poker/ no including the large white content section. Im looking for a dark design with the colours i like found at http://www.bodog.com/poker/ (not the red).

Mainpage: A simple layout with the header at the top, menu at the left and the content to the right. In the content a place for a 250px square ad logo promoting users to signup, A place for users to search for poker games and news items and also Poker Online. In the header i would also like a login form. The links i will need in the menu to begin with are Home, Search, Account, Forum, Poker Online, Poker School, FAQ, Contact

Sub Page: For this the layout is the same with the login form in the same place. In the content there will be need to be some sort of sub links at the top.

Logo: Im looking for a logo to represent the crowd part of the name kind of like the logo www.pokerroom.com has. It must match the design type and if you can do maybe multiple logo choices it will be a plus. I will be using this logo for many things like newsletters, being printed on t-shirts etc etc so it might be best to make it vector?

I will require all image files, fonts and anything else needed in the design. The design must be coded but its perfectly fine to code it after you have been chosen as the winner.

If you need to contact me im available by PM, email, yim, msn, aim. Just pm me for the addresses.

Edit: The quality of this design must be high. Also please reply to the thread if your going to enter.

 

[guetizo]

Hi dreaminginspiration,

Here's a revision on the logo design.
To tell you the truth at first I wasn't quite happy to modify the logo because I thought I was taking away his simplicity. But, the creation was growin, and growing and I'm really happy with the final result.
Now you have a crowdy feel in the logo.
Let it be an inspiration for the web designers [not the logo designers!!] to make a good web site for you.

Feedback is appreciated.

 

[Chris.]

i was just messing around as i cant do vector lol, not even sure what you want as i didnt read most of the top.

 

[dreaminginspiration]

@ guetizo: nice, maybe try a sort of 3d table to match the people? Gonna make it hard to choose between logos :D ill have to get people to help.

@ BuyandSwap: yeh far from what i want, maybe read up on the design. If you cant do logos i may end up paying for logos and design seperately if the design winner isnt a skilled vector artist.

 

[quietorbit]

Here is my try...

 

[dreaminginspiration]

@ wong: Mainpage: A simple layout with the header at the top, menu at the left and the content to the right. Just people dont seem to have read this bit? (it means the menu at the left of the page not in the header) The logo is ok but maybe try to make the people smaller and try to do something to the text. The login is a bit too big also, i would have prefered it at the right of the header vertical down the side.

 

[quietorbit]

Sorry for not reading too detaily... :P Here is another attempt...

 

[dreaminginspiration]

@ wongpk: same thing as last time login to big and can u move it to the right and put it vertical, can you maybe try to join together the header and the left menu etc, also the borders around content may be to big and theres no need for the poker symbols in the menu or the content borders.

 

[quietorbit]

Ok... Changes...

Thanks for the feedback.

 

[dreaminginspiration]

@ wongpk: its an improvement :D but what i meant by like join them was keep the menu in the same location but change the colours and bg like you have done.

But its getting better

 

[Chris.]

ive lost my psd of my design sniff lol, ill make a new one around the 18th

when i have some spare time after building my new site.

cya then dreaming

 

[dreaminginspiration]

ok np buyandswap

 

[guetizo]

Hi Dreaminginspiration,

@ guetizo: nice, maybe try a sort of 3d table to match the people? Gonna make it hard to choose between logos :D ill have to get people to help.

Well the logo as you see it's flat. :p I guess it's better to leave it the way it is.
One thing I can do is to raise the table a little bit and then what happens is just that we are going to cut/hid the middle-down part of the 3 fellows that are higher in the design.
Here it is.

@BuyandSwap: yeh far from what i want, maybe read up on the design. If you cant do logos i may end up paying for logos and design seperately if the design winner isnt a skilled vector artist.

Let me say that the split idea is the best. :tu: :hehe:

 

[dreaminginspiration]

Ok try that and see what happens it will just mean choosing the best at the end.

Hmm im not quite sure which one is best.

Note: If you dont think you can make better logos than the current ones then contact guetizo as he is the current logo leader and he can give you a file to include.

 

[GHOwner]

I'd be willing to design a layout, but can't do a logo since I have no vector t0ools at the moment. Is this okay?

 

[dreaminginspiration]

Hey read this:

Note: If you dont think you can make better logos than the current ones then contact guetizo as he is the current logo leader and he can give you a file to include.

 

[kasted]

maybe a logo designer would like to go 75-25 on this, because I suck at logo's, but I am able to do websites. Maybe you guetizo, you always have nice lookin logos. But, I will have an entry anyways, in like an hour or 2.

Thanks,
Scott.

 

[Dan]

The layout shouldn't need to be vector.. It won't need to be resized, but if you want it a different size then it would help..

I'll start on the layout now.

 

[DylanButler]

The layout shouldn't need to be vector..

To my knowledge, it doesnt.

 

[dreaminginspiration]

the layout doesnt need to be vector

 

[quietorbit]

I tried to have a little changes :P