Graphic Design Contests

**magicvw** · 04:10 PM

Current logo can be seen at http://www.mymusictheory.com.
I'm redesigning the site in Joomla and want the logo to be fairly similar but better quality and with some extra smaller images.

The new temporary logo which I've done myself can be seen at http://www.mymusictheory.com/j

It's larger and the treble clef has disappeared - I'd like to get it back in if possible!

I also want some small images of various musical notes/symbols scattered haphazardly to the right of the text. I'd like them to be tinted with the same kind of red(s) as you can see in the joomla menus. They should be unobtrusive, perhaps bevelled or embossed or made shiny or something interesting - (not flat/plain colour), with lots of opacity

I'd like to have the psd file please. 780x80 px is the minimum - bigger (but same proportions) is no problem. Transparent background.

I've got all the bits in raw form - you can download from http://www.mymusictheory.com/art/joomla-logo.psd. The text can be completely redone as long as it's basically the same or better end result. The notes and symbols need colour (as mentioned above) and the white background needs stripping from them, plus they need to be shrunk a bit and positioned. I don't need them all to be used, and they can be repeated, as you see artistically fit. They basically need to be small and pretty, and random looking.

£20 prize and the competition ends 20th August. Quite an easy job I think - I could do it myself but I'm about as artistic as a warthog.

**Madman340** · 06:10 PM

What do you think?

**magicvw** · 08-16-2010, 02:48 AM

Thanks for that.

I'd like to keep the text part much the same as the original- the way the words join together and the font, and general colour for example.

The notes and symbols should have lots of opacity and be a lot smaller than that - I'm thinking like an embossed pattern in a wall paper or something like that - more of a background than anything. They shouldn't stick out at all. What dimension is this - is looks too narrow?

Hadn't thought of the stave idea - it might work - needs to be the full length 780 though.

**katesrobyn** · 08-16-2010, 10:59 AM

here's my entry...

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**magicvw** · 11:17 AM

Thanks Katesrobyn

I think I need to clarify what I'm after as it obviously wasn't clear from my first post!

It's really in 2 parts - the logo should be kept the same as at http://www.mymusictheory.com/j/ (it's in the download link I posted) - the cases are important "MY" "Music" and "THEoRY", as are the relative positions - the T and M join to make a right angle and the word MY sits in the corner made by them. You don't need to alter the supplied text at all (but if you do, it needs to keep attributes). The logo needs the treble clef adding - in a similar way to what it was originally on http://www.mymusictheory.com. Kate - you have the idea about where the treble clef should go, but it should be less striking and more faint (like the original).

The logo needs to sit on a background of 780 px wide. This background should be transparent but decorated with small (very small) notes and musical symbols, which need to be that deep red and almost transparent, bevelled/embossed or shiny looking but more importantly - small and unobtrusive. I don't think I want the stave in there at all tbh. This background is basically the header image. The number of notes/symbols scatttered around should be about 1 per square cm, roughly. with each image size approx 1/3cm square.

Am I making sense here? It's really hard to put into words what you can see in your head!

BTW Kate just to clarify - the logo/header will be appearing on http://www.mymusictheory.com/j/ - not the page you showed in the screen shot. Nice work though.

**katesrobyn** · 08-16-2010, 12:55 PM

**katesrobyn** · 08-16-2010, 01:01 PM

**magicvw** · 08-16-2010, 02:59 PM

Thanks - that's more like it.

I put the closing date as the 20th so I guess I should wait and see if anyone else makes an attempt- but Kate's is pretty bang on.