considering your comments about the need for embroidery AND the 'modern' try this with a more stylized version of the uniform icon and a more modern font. This will reduce the stitch count a bit - we do embroidery a lot so I will consider that in designs for you - such as no use of a gradient - but for glitz you can use metallic thread for the gold.
Wow! Sweet design(s). We prefer the higher-tech type face of #16. Maybe a little less heavy. But really like what #16 brings. #17 is very cool with the lines. can you work a couple more versions and maybe slant the lines and maybe have a gradient variance in the thickness of the lines or spacing of the lines so there's even more movement in the design? The Pride of Granbury is improving but still needs a more high-tech (still sans serif) typeface. Can't wait to see what you come up with next. Awesome work.
Can't wait to see if you can bring home some of the suggestions above. Have also started asking for more italicezed fonts to enlist a little more movement/speed. But #16 is still such a great design. We see a masked pirate with an eye patch in the design. Very cool!!! Good luck tomorrow!!! You rock. - Rich
Okay, I just got off the phone with the Band Directors. You won! They would like you to tweak the design with fonts that look more like design #70. Then, move the swoop to the left (start it left of the text) and swing the swoop up and over the text to finish it somewhere around the B in Band (or between High and School) or so. They really loved the simplicity of the design and how it carried the uniform elements. I might suggest you revisit the swoop just a bit to make it a little closer in form to the uniform elements. That is, a slight bit less curved and just a hair "sharper" in the corners but I am picking nits. Congrats. Please let us know if we can see those tweaks before awarding a winner. We're not sure how this works days after the end of the contest like this. Sorry we couldn't communicate more efficiently while the contest was on (the band was also at a contest of their own! - great timing, huh?).
thank you - I hope I understood your request - but happy to work it until it is perfect! It was a bit difficult to tell the EXACT shape of the uniform icon due to the angle of the photo I did tweak it a bit but maybe if you provide a different straight on photo I can make it closer. Thought maybe to do the reverse text in a box for "pirates" but since you are concerned about embroidery stitch count probably this will be better. Let me know the size of the image you will embroider and I can get a stitch estimate for you also. Let me know if there are ANY other modifications you want before closing the contest. Then I can provide other versions via email - like PDF files and one color versions etc. thanks again. Carol - businessbuilders
I think you nailed it but let me double check with the band directors and get back with you. I wish I had a better shot of that uniform but I can't find one.