Competition Score up to $500 by designing RPG Codex' Corporate Branding (Logo & Business Cards) Competition

[Bubbles]

So 16% of the codex's budget is devoted to making paper cards with the site name on it to impress people with?

Interesting business strategy. Don't think its been tried before.

Game industry PR people will do a lot of things for somebody who seems important. A lot of things.

 

[Severian Silk]

It became easier to declare the Codex as "officially" run by Greg Martin Enterprises at that point.

Who is Greg Martin?

 

[kazgar]

Who is Greg Martin?

Captain of the Starship Enterprises.

 

[Severian Silk]

Captain of the Starship Enterprises.

Is he flying around Uranus?

 

[Metro]

We should just get Chris Avellone to enter.

He needs the money.

I keep hitting brofist but it only adds one.

The razorblade is the best one, though. If you're going to make cards you should make them distinctive. It needs a Codexian troll on it, though.

 

[Perkel]

it must be printed on shitty yellow quality paper

 

[Havoc]

We are prestigious, so we need a real, official and prestigious card!

Spoiler

 

[GarfunkeL]

Best one yet.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

I've come to realise that we're all catering to the conservative tastes of the current membership. DarkUnderlord is clearly a man who plans for the long term, we need something which will still be relevant to the Codex of 2018:

 

[DarkUnderlord]

So 16% of the codex's budget is devoted to making paper cards with the site name on it to impress people with?

Interesting business strategy. Don't think its been tried before.

It was either that or alcohol and hookers. And after a while hookers get boring tbh.

 

[Tigranes]

Aussie hookers, yeah.

 

[Blaine]

Calling Jaceface to bang up something proper.

Jaceface, if you design a kickass logo and don't win this gay contest, I'll pay you a consolation prize for the logo anyway.

As of now, there's been nothing but shit-tier fucking about in GIMP and Photoshop by non-artists with mediocre visual design skills. Hats off to felipepepe, though.

I paid Jaceface a hundred smackers for this, and it was worth every penny. The best part is that the artistry is superior when compared to Obsidian's own artists' work.

Realistically, someone could pay a starving teenager on DeviantART a few hundred bucks to create a logo far beyond the capabilities of almost any Codex regular I'm aware of.

I designed some business cards for my cousin a while back. She's a high-end real estate photographer. The design incorporated relatively simple pastel embellishments, a clear font, and a sensible layout. I doubt I can be bothered to potentially waste my time submitting something for this fickle bunch, and I certainly can't create a logo that involves actual artistic talent.

That's a real issue with a call to action like this one: "Hey, spend hours designing a thing that will likely go in the rubbish bin."

 

[Jasede]

I dunno what DU wants but personally, all these cards suggested so far are a little overdesigned. I think hard, simple shapes would be better; classic black font on white. Logos and art shouldn't dominate the design and neither should some fancy line-art. Tasteful and minimalist, IMO - hard and sharp, like a razor.

Edit: Immortal has a good entry, with some tweaking. That's just my opinion, though.

 

[Havoc]

Shit, I overdesigned? How about this?

Spoiler

 

[Tigranes]

I'd lose the email and the name. Redundant.

 

[Zed]

"The standard dimensions for a printed business card are 3.5 x 2 inches. That's the finished card size. Many printed designs include bleed. The "bleed area" is an extra 1/8 inch of space for design elements or backgrounds that extend beyond the finished size of your piece."

 

[Achiman]

I have a genuine question. Under which nation's law does the RPG Codex fall under? Is it as simple as Dark Underlord is the owner thus it falls under Australian Law?

Sounds like he is running it as an Australian unlisted private company as a (sole?) Director.
Though how he is paying 28% when the corporate tax rate is still 30% is a pretty good trick.
Anyway, "good for what it is" should be the motto under the letterhead for my vote.

 

[Dyskolos]

 

[Havoc]

I'd lose the email and the name. Redundant.

Spoiler

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Realistically, someone could pay a starving teenager on DeviantART a few hundred bucks to create a logo far beyond the capabilities of almost any Codex regular I'm aware of.

Yeah, see, I was kind of hoping that by offering a decent reward - we'd:

a) Get some good designs that people had put some effort into.

b) Wouldn't get a flood of lulzy crap.

I guess I was wrong.

Sounds like he is running it as an Australian unlisted private company as a (sole?) Director.
Though how he is paying 28% when the corporate tax rate is still 30% is a pretty good trick.
Anyway, "good for what it is" should be the motto under the letterhead for my vote.

https://www.ato.gov.au/General/New-...Small-Business---tax-cuts-for-small-business/

 

[Havoc]

My work lulzy?! No effort?! I'm serious! I need the cash.

 

[Khorne]

Had some spare time so I sketched a few, these previews are wet, but I may upload raw materials at some point later if there is interest.
(For the site, not cash.)

Spoiler

 

[epeli]

Yeah, see, I was kind of hoping that by offering a decent reward - we'd:

a) Get some good designs that people had put some effort into.

b) Wouldn't get a flood of lulzy crap.

I guess I was wrong.

Actually expecting something serious from the 'dex? Well, Codex already has recognizable "corporate branding" in the website design. Why not apply it to official stuff as well? Saves the effort of designing something new that doesn't look like crap. Business card at 300 DPI, backside should be empty:

Same principle for stylistically matching letterhead: the title with scanlines and troll lifting d20 on top margin and whatever info you want on bottom margin with clear sans serif font. Keep it simple, no gaudy frills.

 

[mindx2]

Actually expecting something serious from the 'dex? Well, Codex already has recognizable "corporate branding" in the website design. Why not apply it to official stuff as well? Saves the effort of designing something new that doesn't look like crap. Business card at 300 DPI, backside should be empty:

Same principle for stylistically matching letterhead: the title with scanlines and troll lifting d20 on top margin and whatever info you want on bottom margin with clear sans serif font. Keep it simple, no gaudy frills.

That one's not bad but I think the Troll should be bigger. I like the simplicity just make the Troll bigger.

 

[epeli]

That one's not bad but I think the Troll should be bigger. I like the simplicity just make the Troll bigger.

Better now?