New England Backgammon ClubLogo Design Contest

Will keep you in mind!

finishing in the top ranked designs is good anyway. Let me know if i can help with promotional merchandise after the contest - that is my primary business

Hey there -- I'm getting responses from some early surveys and while the concept and overall look got some interest, it's just a case where a few other designs got more emphatic support. So, I'm afraid I can't be encouraging. I really appreciate your participation here and it has been fun working through the concept with you.

None that I have in mind. Looking again, I'm wondering whether the NEBC letters seem a little vertically squished? I like the general style of those letters, but you could experiment changing them as well to come up with styles (or one style) that work well together between the abbreviation and full name?

OF course!
are there fonts or font types you like ?

Could you try some different fonts for the full club name at bottom? Not so sure the current one coheres with the rest of the design.

I know

It's a tough neighborhood! :-)

just sorry I am not first!

thank you!

Ah -- gotcha. I think we've honed this idea about enough for the first phase. But if you could do just one more thing that would be great: put a second checker on the last point on the right? I'm curious whether this might emphasize the "anchor" idea (since anchors are most important when your opponent 'owns' the other 5 points). And let's stay with this #30 checker style for now. Thanks!

it would not be on the vector art but maybe on the jpg image that we have to upload to the site.

I don't think we need a bigger 3-d effect -- a flatter look is probably best...

I'm not sure I care so much for the greying of the checkers . . . and do the outline seem a little 'fuzzy' - pixellated?

check entry #30 - I can make the shadow shift a bit more if you want.

Thanks for this! In doing the monochrome version, you seem to have taken a slightly 3-D strategy to delineate the checkers. This seems to address the problem I mentioned earlier about the bottom row 'getting lost' in the background! Can we see a color version of that approach?

fyi I always provide a 1 color option of any logo chosen. Carol

thanks - enjoy your games.

Is this like #24 with slightly taller points? It does seem an improvement!

Mmm . . not appealing, and there's not enough contrast between the anchor and the checkers, which needs to be fairly strong.

will do a couple others - and one with gradients on stones (that is what we call them) but you will still need a version without gradients - I can help. Carol

Hmmm. . . yes I agree. And now the anchor's weight is diminished. Do you agree with my sense of those bottom checkers getting a little lost in the previous version (#24)? Might there be a different fix?

kind of feel like the points should be taller - or is this okay?

VERY INTERESTING! Can you make one further tweak, enlarging the checkers just a bit more so that the bottom checker's edges extend to thew border of the triangle edge? What I'm seeing is that those bottom checkers seem to 'float' on the background a bit and because we can't see their edges on the black points they appear smaller than the higher-up ones. Do you see what I mean?

added a gradient and shadow to make the anchor stand out - would need different variations for some types of printing/embroidery. Carol

will try again

Yes, instead of them -- I think the anchor would need to have more weight so that it holds its own against the neighboring stacks. Do color it yellow! Checker size looks about right for now.

Maybe this? or do you want the anchor instead of the yellow pieces?

great feedback will work on that

Right idea! Yes, I was thinking a literal ship anchor! This would be a very distinctive and subtle visual pun that would make sense to our target audience of competitive players. (See my original list of "Ideas" for a paragraph about 'Anchors.' ) I'm not certain it will work, but if it does it could be a really great solution! Also, the checker size is better but still a tad small. Can you try enlarging them so the outer edges of the 2nd checker in the stack breaks the plane of the triangle? Then if you can make an anchor 2 checkers tall, that would be ideal.

hope this is what you mean... or did you want a literal 'anchor' like for a ship?

Sure. Looking at the picture I posted, we see green's home board. If you have two checkers on a point, you "own" it and your opponent cannot land on it. If green can fill in all 6 points in his home
board, Yellow will not be able to enter a checker if it is hit and put on the bar, and green gets to play until he opens up a point. In the picture Yellow OWNS a point in green's home board, and so long as he owns it, he cannot be completely closed out. So we call this yellow point an "anchor" -- a safe point he can always enter on. So I am suggesting in the logo, those two yellow checkers could be replaced by an image of an anchor in a color contrasting the 'green' (or black or whatever) color. Does that make sense?

can you explain a bit more what you mean by your idea 'yellow checkers = anchors"

OK I will try - thanks Carol - I have a table with the points being reindeer in needlepoint - my mom made it.

Nice creative use of perspective here, but the overall shape isn't that appealing, and the checkers are too small in proportion to the points. Thanks!

Nice bold design! The checkers on the points would need to be larger, breaking the plane of the points. And here's an idea: what if you created an actual position illustrating the concept of an "anchor" and used an anchor image in place of the two checkers on that point? I am uploading picture illustrating a possible set-up, with the Yellow checkers representing the anchor. This could be an exciting concept unique to our club!

I have good backgammon memories - thanks.