[Randonneur]

#12 is the best

[romansolar]

WOW! where are my designs? i sent them all in one email!

whats happening?

[romansolar]

could you add them please, i submitted in time and i received acknowledge via email.

[pentaxior]

I vote for nr. 4. The new design must be complete different from the old one: not any hint may point out to the old design to prevent thoughts from outside-watchers like “They tried to do something new, but it is’nt a succes, the old one is still here.” A new design must also have a complete different style. No figurative one, showing the image of a camera, a lens, a diafragma or even a hint in that direction.

The new logo should show a different way of thinking. From my choice number four I can see a different lettering: straight, simpel, but balanced and a clear reading in different backgroundcolours.
However: when you see throug the lettering you see the contour from a camera: shoulders and lens, formed by the first letters “f-o-r”. The “r” is reversed, I noticed that in my second glimps. Second! At first I read it as I thought there was written “forums”. So, you can chance lettering without changing the read dignity but wíth the mindconnection to a camera.
That is a complete different approach to a logo. In the first place because people from the forum are not directly marketing the brand Pentax but more in a supportive way (Pentax does direct marketing, it is their living). So, pushing the brand Pentax in the market is not the mission from the Pentaxforums.
In the second place: it handles here about people who know more than average about all what Pentax has produced, included experience with their products. It is perhaps the experience what outstands members from this forum from other photoforums. Therefor: chest knocking belongs to Pentax salesmen, a humble businesscard belongs to polite advisers, hearers and fans.

The new logo should also show some intelligence from the bearer of the logo, on the man/woman’s cloth, in this case a T-shirt, but also from the foundation which edited the logo on T-shirts, and maybe on other objects: bags, badges, umbrella’s a.s.o. Intelligence is here ment also to include: smartness, cleverness, because Pentax as a brand stands for far more than only camera’s, lenses, optics, binoculairs, glassbreeders a.s.o. Pentax is for some people a livestyle, a way of seeing and watching things as they happen. That idea covers a whole lot from our modern civilisation, maybe all, as long as this all can be frozen in a photo.

pentaxior

[Apapukas]

WOW! where are my designs? i sent them all in one email!

whats happening?

My first thought when i scrolled through all the designs was where the hell is "I Shot a Sheriff with my Pentax"
Sad that i had to vote for design that wasn't my favorite

[fandart]

I vote for nr. 4. The new design must be complete different from the old one: not any hint may point out to the old design to prevent thoughts from outside-watchers like “They tried to do something new, but it is’nt a succes, the old one is still here.” A new design must also have a complete different style. No figurative one, showing the image of a camera, a lens, a diafragma or even a hint in that direction.

The new logo should show a different way of thinking. From my choice number four I can see a different lettering: straight, simpel, but balanced and a clear reading in different backgroundcolours.
However: when you see throug the lettering you see the contour from a camera: shoulders and lens, formed by the first letters “f-o-r”. The “r” is reversed, I noticed that in my second glimps. Second! At first I read it as I thought there was written “forums”. So, you can chance lettering without changing the read dignity but wíth the mindconnection to a camera.
That is a complete different approach to a logo. In the first place because people from the forum are not directly marketing the brand Pentax but more in a supportive way (Pentax does direct marketing, it is their living). So, pushing the brand Pentax in the market is not the mission from the Pentaxforums.
In the second place: it handles here about people who know more than average about all what Pentax has produced, included experience with their products. It is perhaps the experience what outstands members from this forum from other photoforums. Therefor: chest knocking belongs to Pentax salesmen, a humble businesscard belongs to polite advisers, hearers and fans.

The new logo should also show some intelligence from the bearer of the logo, on the man/woman’s cloth, in this case a T-shirt, but also from the foundation which edited the logo on T-shirts, and maybe on other objects: bags, badges, umbrella’s a.s.o. Intelligence is here ment also to include: smartness, cleverness, because Pentax as a brand stands for far more than only camera’s, lenses, optics, binoculairs, glassbreeders a.s.o. Pentax is for some people a livestyle, a way of seeing and watching things as they happen. That idea covers a whole lot from our modern civilisation, maybe all, as long as this all can be frozen in a photo.

pentaxior

Well you read it like this, because you know well the words "pentax forums". But if you would ask somebody, who actually does not know this, he would have hard time to read it exactly for the first time I guess. And my another note is: it was not a competition for creating a new logo, which should be very useful indeed. So If I do create this kind of competition, I would probably be glad if the design uses actual logo even if the quality of it is not that ... perfect. IMO

[romansolar]

My first thought when i scrolled through all the designs was where the hell is "I Shoot a Sheriff with my Pentax"
Sad that i had to vote for design that wasn't my favorite

thank you! and hey, i am sure they will add them cause i dont see reason why my designs were ignored

[wafflehaus]

^^^^^ Voting options are above ^^^^^


Vote for your favorite shits in the poll above from among these choices:

Hmmm, it's hard to pick a favorite. I thought we were voting on clothing.

/Typo alert.

[WillyKano]

PF shirt design 2013 : vote on 85

[hgk]

Shirt #42

[miklog]

Two issues that I just noticed with this voting:

#1: for several designs multiple colour options are shown (e.g. 14, 29, 45, 57, 84, 87, 88, 97). Which one of the colour variations are we voting for? For example #14 are we voting for the white or black one? Also, does this mean that only one shirt colour will be available (since on a black shirt the black design won't work...). Or, if all colour options of these designs are going to be in print and we're voting on them as a whole, then why aren't all three colour versions of my submission shown?

#2: this was also mentioned in the submission thread, but allowing designs with the original Pentax font and trademarks in the voting thread is completely unfair. First of all, they were against the rules, and therefore in my humble opinion shouldn't have gone through the screening at all. Second, even if after the fact changing the design is easy, it does influence voting results (due to the emotional impact of seeing the same font as on your camera), and also results in final shirt that people didn't actually vote for.

My 2 cents.

Some of the shirts "shine out" because they present them self better, for example those with people wearing them. I think that using a shirt template for voting would make the choosing process somehow more objective. Also double sided shirts are likely to be favorited, no? (why one when you can get two sides

[colinsart]

Not clear where or how to actually vote though.
I would vote for ten of them and happily wear all of them!

[colinsart]

For some reason, there it was, little boxes to tick!
Well done all

[jbff1990]

@pentaxior: Nice elaboration and I agree with you on certain arguments. But which also is explained earlier that it is not about a logo but just a new T-shirt design.
For me the 4th design was also the reason as you explained why I thought this was a good design, the subtlety of the design and especially the 'story' behind it as the way it lets you think about why the design is how it is, was the reason for me to put it on my list of favourits. It also let people (that aren't familiar with the forum) think about what it means and represent, thus getting their attention because they don't know...people are curious.

But it isn't catchy enough and some other design are exactly the opposite and really catch your attention. And besides that there are also some designs that combine that catchiness with the key elements of the Pentax brand and what the forum stands for.

That's why I like for instance also #20, 33, 37, 40, 44, 45, 59, 84 and 94. These are clean and catchy designs that represent what Pentaxians are for people, what the brand stands for and also the forum.

And overall I would suggest that #89 is my favourite.

[pierrott]

No matter what it will be a beautiful t shirt and i'm a buyer