Help Design Club TPR's Logo & Membership Card!

[lightguy84]

Here is another design I came up with.

vertical

another take on the horizontal card

[cfc]

^I'm not crazy about the font you're using for the names and such (too much like a wedding invitation), but the overall look is pretty good.

 

Lots of good stuff in this thread.

[lightguy84]

Well I guess you could look at TPR as your life partner. I know some people here do.

[hyyyper]

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/files/cardv4_103.jpg

 

 

I really love the 'shadow-park' background in this one, my favorite design so far.

[Moose]

^ Agreed but the design needs more color to make it more fun. Otherwise I love it.

[BeemerBoy]

Random thoughts:

...even though that's a collaboration of two members' different ideas.

 

Anyway, great work by everyone. This thread has been fun to follow!

I also kind of like this idea, although it's so non-traditional, and most peoples eyes are trained to read it like the normal layout of a credit card. But, the vertical layout might look cool to me with the following cartoon donkey silhouetted....

This really caught my eye. I'm digging the logo here, although there's something about the three colored bars above the word "club" that aren't agreeing with my eyes.

I've still got this one in the lead, but somehow I'm envisioning a combination of the three.

[Emiroo]

This thread is lots of fun!

 

If you take the Club TPR logo from this card:

 

 

And put it on this card:

 

 

I think you'll be very close to a winner. I would like to see the TPR letters from the logo on card #1 to have the brighter colors of the TPR letters on #2. The coaster cars are an absolute must IMO though.

 

Keep the great work coming everyone.

[hyyyper]

I don't know how much this is going to up the printing costs, but what if you print the front 'landscape' and the back of the card 'portrait', so the card can be use in the usual credit card way and can be put in a lanyard.

[supertrooper]

I guess I'll go ahead and give it a shot.

[n7]

I don't know how much this is going to up the printing costs, but what if you print the front 'landscape' and the back of the card 'portrait', so the card can be use in the usual credit card way and can be put in a lanyard.

 

It wouldn't make for higher printing costs - it would just be confusing overall. The first thing that comes in to my mind when I think of a vertical card is a hotel digital key. I love non-traditional layouts, but I think in the end, for something thousands of people will carry in their wallet, landscape is the way to go.

 

William - I really like the vector treatment done on this one. Perhaps we could collaborate and come up with a card that has both of our design ideas on it.

 

Jcrouse - Wow, I really really dig that card design. I agree that the three colors popping out of the club are distracting, and even the club could use some toning down, but I like the banner approach - it would replicate really well on t-shirts. The card design - I would not mind having that in my wallet! Looks very clean and it reads well.

 

 

EDIT - I decided to just do a quick mockup of how William's logo and artwork would look on my design:

 

******LOGO AND VECTOR ARTWORK ARE ANGRY GUMBALL'S - NOT MY OWN******

[robbalvey]

Wow, this just keeps getting better and better!

 

I'm just going to post my current favorites!

 

What a great, GREAT way to combine two peices of art! Love it! Although I prefer n7's font for "Club" over Gumball's.

 

Wow! This one is great right at the start! Not a huge fan of the bars above the TPR logo, but I don't hate them either. Love the logo otherwise. Not keen on the "champion" dude in the shadows. But this one is great! Would love to see another version of it.

 

And I still think that Gumball's first attempt is still my favorite of his.

 

A couple of other notes - we won't do a vertical card, so no need to keep on that path.

 

It is very possible that we will end up using elements from a couple of different designs to create the final card.

 

--Robb "Yes, it's possible we will have more than 1 winner." Alvey

[Angry_Gumball]

The vectors work nice on it. I think I may have some more ideas later today...gotta get the school day done first.

[Wes]

Robb asked me to give input on these designs, since I am TPR's official designated "graphic design" guy around here.

I'm going to give my feedback on some of the newer entries.

 

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You did good work, but it's a little too cartoony and flat, and VERY busy. Looks more like a comic strip than an official membership card. Realistically, I couldn't see Club TPR going this route. You have good ideas, and you've nailed the "fun" part, but the design for the card needs to look a bit more polished, professional, and clean.

 

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Excellent job. In my eyes, this is about equal footing with N7's. Some suggestions:

- The white space is a little too stark. Maybe a very subtle texture or pattern in this section so it doesn't seem so lifeless in comparison to the rest of the design.

- Not sure how I feel about the abstract circles where the username is. They feel a little out of place, like they belong in a Monet painting. I'd try some different vectors or brush shapes here. Even more solid, defined circles could work.

- Could you do a rev of the logo without the white outerglow on the Club part? Just want to see how it would look.

 

The overall layout and design is fantastic, though.

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It's okay. Not great. The black space between the top portion and the middle portion is a little much. Maybe move the flowing lines up a little bit so the black space isn't so big?

The major issue I have with this one is that it's VERY flat. The layout of the information spaces is good, but the overall use of colors and space is what is holding it back. I'd work on trying to create a more compelling background element first, and then move onto making the info boxes and other elements have a little more dimension.

 

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To be brutally honest, this is my least favorite of the newer designs posted. This doesn't say "professional" to me. If Robb handed this to a park representative, they wouldn't take him seriously. I could give you advice on the designs elements, but I honestly feel like nothing here works, and it would be best to start from scratch.

 

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A good start. I'm not crazy about the logo. The generic Stencil font should be changed to something a little more unique (dafont.com is your friend). I like the rainbow ribbon as a design element. I'm not sure how I feel about the white to black gradient on the top of the card. Try some other revs with different colors or design elements there. Also, maybe a really really subtle gradient (black to dark gray) on the black section? Just a random idea.

This is a really good "simple" design, for sure.

 

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I actuallly prefer yours with the Kumba picture, to be honest. Not much else to say at this point, your design is really great.

[ebl]

My favorite so far:

 

 

It just looks right.

 

Eric

[supertrooper]

Just noticed the feedback. I redid this before I saw you didn't really care for the Stencil font (which I used to make it seem more backyard clubhouse like). I'll see what else I can come up with.

[Meteornotes]

^I like that logo a lot better.

 

 

This is my current favorite. The only thing I don't like is the font you used for "club". Seems to get a little lost on the card. I'm not a giant fan of the coaster image (like someone said, this site is not just about coasters), but I'm not sure what I'd put there. Maybe fade it a bit to make it not stand out as much?

 

 

I like this one a lot too. I don't like the bars above "club", and I REALLLY don't like the "victory" dude or whatever that is in the lower right corner, but the rest of it is cool. I might make the name and expiration date stick out a bit more, just so it's easy to see when quickly glancing at the card.

 

Other entries might have had a good idea or two, but didn't really grab me for some reason. A lot of my thoughts have been covered by others (especially Wes), so no need to repeat them.

 

I really am enjoying seeing all the stuff people are coming up with. Keep up the awesome work!

 

dt

[robinschroder]

One thing that did occur to me is that whilst having the word "Family" printed on the family membership cards makes perfect sense, the inclusion of the standalone word "Single" on the standard membership cards kind of makes it seem like it has something to do with some sort of dating club...

[Chroniq]

^ - I'm on the fence about it being all mostly black/gray. .

 

From a branding stand point, black is as much a part of the TPR brand as the RGB logo. Gadzoox is a font I would never use with my companies, but TPR makes it work and makes it memorable. I think that the Gadzoox font is the biggest obstacle for these designers as well as incorporating the three colors that are contradictory.

 

I would definitely go with a a black card. For credit cards, black represents a level above platinum. For fashion it's the color that is supposed to work with all others. For a simpler reason, its your current background. Just my thoughts, sorry about the joke entry before. I thought it was funny, need to work on my humor I guess.

 

 

Chris "always bet on black" Con

[robbalvey]

I'd really like to know why the Gadzoox font is such a big "obstacle." Other than it not having a lower-case option I have had zero problems using it for videos, titles, T-Shirts, or any other graphic design work we have done since we started using it about 10 years ago.

 

What is the problem with it?

 

--Robb

[Chroniq]

My only worry is how many space we have in the name, and can we go to two lines for the name if we needed to?

 

With names, make sure you leave lots of room for characters. My name sounds fairly common "Christian Connolly" and takes up 17 Characters..

 

Many cheap debit cards and the like can only support 16 characters.

[Wes]

I'd really like to know why the Gadzoox font is such a big "obstacle." Other than it not having a lower-case option I have had zero problems using it for videos, titles, T-Shirts, or any other graphic design work we have done since we started using it about 10 years ago.

 

What is the problem with it?

 

--Robb

 

For me at least...when scaled up, the font has a lot of weird little jagged edges and rough bits that make things like doing a Stroke a bit difficult.

Look at the T character, there are four points that have odd jagged point.

[Chroniq]

I'd really like to know why the Gadzoox font is such a big "obstacle."

 

 

I don't claim to be a graphic designer, but there are certain fonts I've found to appear very kenetic or work well in logos; Copper Plate Gothic comes to mind. That font is definitely not TPR though. I'm thinking about a lot of the fonts graphic designers seem to skip over, some of the more "fun" fonts like gadzoox or on a more basic level, fonts like impact or comic. Anyways feel free to flame, I don't claim to have any experience in this. I guess what I mean is most graphic designers probably have little experience using gadzoox, which might actually make the designers better and cause them to think out of the box. One of the great things about TPR's branding is you have a font that screams TPR. You have created a brand that one can immediately recognize. At a park you could identify a TPR shirt from 100s of feet away.

 

Wes, as a graphic designer, I was thinking you might want to give you opinion on removing things like "member name" or "location" since they busy up the design and with the better designs people have removed this already. Obviously Anaheim, CA is a location and doesn't need to read "LOCATION Anahaiem, CA"

[Immelman]

This is a very cool thread! I lurk here more than anything but I love the site and I'm a graphic design student, so it would be very cool to help you out on design projects!

 

I'm a little late to the party, but here is what I came up with:

 

 

 

 

I made the yellow design first, but I think I'm liking the blue version better.

[supertrooper]

Another, very simplified attempt.

 

As for Gadzoox font...I think it is basically just a personal preference. I don't personally like it because it seems unprofessional and outdated to me, but I also don't like Copperplate (the font that Chroniq mentioned) because it is overused. There are a lot of fonts that I don't like and that I try to avoid using, but sometimes you just have to do what the client (Robb and Elissa in this case) wants. If you like the font, Robb, that is all that matters.

[robbalvey]

Wes, as a graphic designer, I was thinking you might want to give you opinion on removing things like "member name" or "location" since they busy up the design and with the better designs people have removed the already. Obviously Anaheim, CA is a location and doesn't need to read "LOCATION Anahaiem, CA"

And I probably should have made it a bit more clear that I'm not really looking for the actual words "Location" or "Member Name" to be there, but more the text that goes along with them.

 

Either way, if someone presents a design that looks good, we can just simply tell them to remove those items.

 

Some of the designs that simply have #000069 for the member number is prefectly fine.

 

And yeah, it's clear to me when someone just writes:

 

Joey Mandel

"Jew"

 

That's name and nick-name, basically.

 

I think the only one that is probably "required" is:

 

Expires: June 2011

 

And I think we probably will go with just month/date and spell out the month so it's not confusing for our international members.

 

--Robb